Taipei — UN urban centre
Taipei: 9,136,792 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #39 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 12128; 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: 25.0275, 121.4793. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 3,691,099 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 4,669,003 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 5,791,742 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 6,841,153 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 7,432,342 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 7,898,577 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 8,233,746 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 8,604,396 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 8,854,906 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 9,233,776 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 9,136,792 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 9,053,593 | Projection |
| 2035 | 8,919,921 | Projection |
| 2040 | 8,734,130 | Projection |
| 2045 | 8,481,553 | Projection |
| 2050 | 8,176,644 | Projection |
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