Zamboanga City — UN urban centre
Zamboanga City: 513,813 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #1,081 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 4639; 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: 6.9261, 122.0782. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 133,809 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 253,159 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 299,594 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 327,517 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 360,587 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 409,432 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 448,263 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 489,824 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 505,033 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 514,197 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 513,813 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 513,140 | Projection |
| 2035 | 513,147 | Projection |
| 2040 | 511,005 | Projection |
| 2045 | 511,290 | Projection |
| 2050 | 505,965 | Projection |
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