Johor Bahru — UN urban centre
Johor Bahru: 1,695,838 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #288 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2974; territory: Malaysia (MYS). 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: 1.5156, 103.7563. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 120,939 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 196,232 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 390,927 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 530,740 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 670,610 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 830,166 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 1,011,445 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 1,259,993 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 1,439,876 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,602,347 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,695,838 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 1,782,950 | Projection |
| 2035 | 1,880,279 | Projection |
| 2040 | 1,945,153 | Projection |
| 2045 | 1,999,865 | Projection |
| 2050 | 2,098,641 | Projection |
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