Hanoi — UN urban centre
Hanoi: 5,068,414 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #81 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 1975; territory: Vietnam (VNM). 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: 21.0118, 105.8369. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 1,492,851 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 1,750,757 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 1,975,406 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 2,174,781 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 2,605,821 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 3,024,032 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 3,544,809 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 4,281,057 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 4,770,328 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 5,057,731 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 5,068,414 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 5,048,037 | Projection |
| 2035 | 5,023,777 | Projection |
| 2040 | 4,927,584 | Projection |
| 2045 | 4,880,272 | Projection |
| 2050 | 4,789,526 | Projection |
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