Yangon — UN urban centre
Yangon: 5,618,303 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #70 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 5433; territory: Myanmar (MMR). 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: 16.8617, 96.1454. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 2,163,479 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 2,450,921 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 2,749,366 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 3,068,108 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 3,426,420 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 3,804,518 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 4,222,367 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 4,679,491 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 5,176,966 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 5,423,225 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 5,618,303 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 5,783,733 | Projection |
| 2035 | 5,897,686 | Projection |
| 2040 | 5,975,558 | Projection |
| 2045 | 6,032,887 | Projection |
| 2050 | 6,050,414 | Projection |
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