Kaohsiung — UN urban centre
Kaohsiung: 2,187,455 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #231 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 12135; 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: 22.6349, 120.3325. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 1,511,028 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 1,676,319 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 1,915,494 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 2,092,566 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 2,195,359 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 2,269,103 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 2,284,047 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 2,291,562 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 2,284,208 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 2,274,478 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 2,187,455 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 2,100,691 | Projection |
| 2035 | 2,013,330 | Projection |
| 2040 | 1,915,949 | Projection |
| 2045 | 1,817,294 | Projection |
| 2050 | 1,696,690 | Projection |
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