Ploiești — UN urban centre
Ploiești: 188,227 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,210 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2253; territory: Romania (ROU). 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: 44.9399, 26.0241. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 191,116 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 208,780 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 223,336 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 238,659 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 235,602 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 226,862 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 214,530 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 202,765 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 192,641 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 190,370 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 188,227 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 183,938 | Projection |
| 2035 | 181,233 | Projection |
| 2040 | 178,327 | Projection |
| 2045 | 175,230 | Projection |
| 2050 | 172,095 | Projection |
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