Angeles — UN urban centre
Angeles: 1,445,721 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #350 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2059; territory: Philippines (PHL). 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: 15.145, 120.6334. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 197,306 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 245,595 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 384,578 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 434,894 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 476,253 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 675,575 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 778,589 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 891,558 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 1,157,957 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,300,169 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,445,721 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 1,528,925 | Projection |
| 2035 | 1,596,278 | Projection |
| 2040 | 1,654,424 | Projection |
| 2045 | 1,685,120 | Projection |
| 2050 | 1,705,848 | Projection |
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