Davao City — UN urban centre
Davao City: 1,546,026 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #322 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 5852; 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: 7.0837, 125.5925. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 206,037 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 361,486 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 434,746 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 629,660 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 750,342 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 871,966 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 1,011,032 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 1,135,707 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 1,295,547 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,470,399 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,546,026 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 1,615,672 | Projection |
| 2035 | 1,683,521 | Projection |
| 2040 | 1,769,392 | Projection |
| 2045 | 1,853,005 | Projection |
| 2050 | 1,912,096 | Projection |
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