Ciudad Juárez — UN urban centre
Ciudad Juárez: 1,212,370 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #425 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 5188; territory: Mexico (MEX). UN source workbook.
Method: Degree of Urbanisation (contiguous 1 km2 cells, density 1,500+ people/km2, total 50,000+). This is a source-defined urban centre, not a municipality or province. No association with a separate administrative entity is inferred from proximity or name.
Source centroid: 31.6634, -106.4237. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 501,756 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 566,928 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 685,959 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 870,459 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 1,047,529 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 1,288,190 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 1,279,869 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 1,256,456 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 1,273,508 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,197,229 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,212,370 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 1,224,365 | Projection |
| 2035 | 1,264,603 | Projection |
| 2040 | 1,268,617 | Projection |
| 2045 | 1,272,999 | Projection |
| 2050 | 1,269,517 | Projection |
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