Asunción — UN urban centre
Asunción: 1,314,663 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #391 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 202; territory: Paraguay (PRY). 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: -25.319, -57.5505. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 663,309 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 765,029 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 882,476 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 989,452 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 1,200,056 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 1,380,203 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 1,644,340 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 1,762,553 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 1,694,577 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,308,411 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,314,663 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 1,314,041 | Projection |
| 2035 | 1,307,074 | Projection |
| 2040 | 1,294,746 | Projection |
| 2045 | 1,280,827 | Projection |
| 2050 | 1,261,860 | Projection |
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