Singapore — UN urban centre
Singapore: 4,963,998 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #84 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 165; territory: Singapore (SGP). 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: 1.3447, 103.8449. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 2,004,259 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 2,174,625 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 2,434,180 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 2,690,060 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 3,119,199 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 3,539,148 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 3,715,000 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 4,386,713 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 4,730,016 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 4,763,608 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 4,963,998 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 5,091,752 | Projection |
| 2035 | 5,197,766 | Projection |
| 2040 | 5,225,230 | Projection |
| 2045 | 5,190,567 | Projection |
| 2050 | 5,125,633 | Projection |
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