Multan — UN urban centre
Multan: 2,956,642 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #165 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 7167; 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: 30.1905, 71.4753. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 792,997 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 913,927 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 1,157,764 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 1,377,495 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 1,622,089 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 1,922,661 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 2,222,646 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 2,521,909 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 2,726,215 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 2,810,790 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 2,956,642 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 3,137,801 | Projection |
| 2035 | 3,416,222 | Projection |
| 2040 | 3,617,269 | Projection |
| 2045 | 3,873,329 | Projection |
| 2050 | 4,053,628 | Projection |
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