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Sievierodonetsk — UN urban centre

88,468

Sievierodonetsk: 88,468 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #7,019 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 4731; 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: 48.945, 38.4926. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975136,064Estimate
1980133,668Estimate
1985132,767Estimate
1990132,075Estimate
1995129,960Estimate
2000122,813Estimate
2005116,596Estimate
2010112,713Estimate
2015110,300Estimate
2020105,005Estimate
202588,468Estimate
203089,876Projection
203584,643Projection
204080,828Projection
204577,122Projection
205073,187Projection

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