Taichung — UN urban centre
Taichung: 2,268,685 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #220 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 12126; territory: Taiwan (TWN). 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: 24.1531, 120.6734. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 1,478,897 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 1,594,470 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 1,694,047 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 1,715,061 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 1,848,083 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 1,998,999 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 2,095,328 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 2,178,651 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 2,262,792 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 2,293,957 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 2,268,685 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 2,246,144 | Projection |
| 2035 | 2,210,123 | Projection |
| 2040 | 2,160,254 | Projection |
| 2045 | 2,095,016 | Projection |
| 2050 | 2,017,359 | Projection |
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