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Tabaco — UN urban centre

186,310

Tabaco: 186,310 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,242 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 4676; 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: 13.3427, 123.7304. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
199056,189Estimate
199570,470Estimate
200081,120Estimate
2005114,337Estimate
2010124,615Estimate
2015166,104Estimate
2020173,849Estimate
2025186,310Estimate
2030196,438Projection
2035205,605Projection
2040215,439Projection
2045250,323Projection
2050256,939Projection

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