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Omsk — UN urban centre

975,485

Omsk: 975,485 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #530 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 7462; 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: 54.9831, 73.3625. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
19751,116,675Estimate
19801,197,335Estimate
19851,242,114Estimate
19901,257,389Estimate
19951,184,410Estimate
20001,133,098Estimate
20051,087,250Estimate
20101,046,148Estimate
20151,004,415Estimate
2020982,610Estimate
2025975,485Estimate
2030970,161Projection
2035963,650Projection
2040959,562Projection
2045955,610Projection
2050952,425Projection

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