Moscow — UN urban centre
Moscow: 14,524,753 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #19 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2485; territory: Russia (RUS). 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: 55.7504, 37.6383. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 8,520,842 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 9,107,571 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 9,678,610 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 10,169,614 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 10,386,424 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 11,194,627 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 11,992,017 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 12,790,165 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 13,480,234 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 14,268,411 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 14,524,753 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 14,757,838 | Projection |
| 2035 | 14,916,404 | Projection |
| 2040 | 15,120,917 | Projection |
| 2045 | 15,310,168 | Projection |
| 2050 | 15,521,567 | Projection |
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