Pyongyang — UN urban centre
Pyongyang: 2,901,588 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #172 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 3737; territory: North Korea (PRK). 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: 39.0261, 125.7438. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 1,482,374 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 2,002,402 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 2,343,362 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 2,648,331 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 2,835,217 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 2,811,681 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 2,782,509 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 2,783,447 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 2,834,492 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 2,870,201 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 2,901,588 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 2,912,848 | Projection |
| 2035 | 2,912,507 | Projection |
| 2040 | 2,891,691 | Projection |
| 2045 | 2,869,179 | Projection |
| 2050 | 2,838,238 | Projection |
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