Kiev — UN urban centre
Kiev: 2,614,581 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #192 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2178; territory: Ukraine (UKR). 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: 50.4492, 30.5196. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 1,934,717 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 2,199,611 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 2,399,585 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 2,566,122 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 2,568,986 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 2,564,591 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 2,633,931 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 2,747,984 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 2,820,427 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 2,897,371 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 2,614,581 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 2,694,625 | Projection |
| 2035 | 2,647,838 | Projection |
| 2040 | 2,604,687 | Projection |
| 2045 | 2,551,623 | Projection |
| 2050 | 2,490,995 | Projection |
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