Taxila — UN urban centre
Taxila: 757,451 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #706 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 6824; 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: 33.7768, 72.7559. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 56,487 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 84,448 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 168,571 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 259,426 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 322,828 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 389,394 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 455,682 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 543,680 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 592,134 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 636,458 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 757,451 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 842,325 | Projection |
| 2035 | 1,025,070 | Projection |
| 2040 | 1,125,087 | Projection |
| 2045 | 1,221,239 | Projection |
| 2050 | 1,314,945 | Projection |
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