Peshawar — UN urban centre
Peshawar: 3,554,423 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #134 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 4408; territory: Pakistan (PAK). 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: 33.9891, 71.5179. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 793,178 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 935,962 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 1,223,653 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 1,478,174 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 1,804,315 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 2,203,768 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 2,579,218 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 2,978,126 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 3,243,498 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 3,297,838 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 3,554,423 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 3,903,978 | Projection |
| 2035 | 4,270,243 | Projection |
| 2040 | 4,658,985 | Projection |
| 2045 | 5,037,654 | Projection |
| 2050 | 5,329,187 | Projection |
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