Faisalabad — UN urban centre
Faisalabad: 5,566,382 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #73 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 7724; 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: 31.4233, 73.087. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 1,097,885 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 1,367,210 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 1,614,468 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 1,922,798 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 2,347,187 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 2,816,755 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 3,259,147 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 3,785,828 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 4,300,232 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 5,206,086 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 5,566,382 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 5,937,806 | Projection |
| 2035 | 6,340,294 | Projection |
| 2040 | 6,718,171 | Projection |
| 2045 | 7,033,840 | Projection |
| 2050 | 7,311,253 | Projection |
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