Tashkent — UN urban centre
Tashkent: 3,935,793 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #117 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 3082; territory: Uzbekistan (UZB). 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: 41.2394, 69.2589. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 2,101,076 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 2,305,795 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 2,545,349 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 2,783,571 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 2,922,567 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 2,986,063 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 3,062,263 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 3,164,419 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 3,312,394 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 3,648,478 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 3,935,793 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 4,249,888 | Projection |
| 2035 | 4,435,650 | Projection |
| 2040 | 4,647,021 | Projection |
| 2045 | 4,887,309 | Projection |
| 2050 | 5,093,106 | Projection |
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