Ho Chi Minh City — UN urban centre
Ho Chi Minh City: 14,052,713 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #20 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 5435; 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: 10.8223, 106.6934. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 2,384,034 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 2,914,462 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 3,344,198 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 3,806,029 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 4,926,769 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 6,006,090 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 7,350,436 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 9,300,611 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 11,248,598 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 13,096,660 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 14,052,713 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 14,858,040 | Projection |
| 2035 | 15,608,113 | Projection |
| 2040 | 16,246,697 | Projection |
| 2045 | 16,794,894 | Projection |
| 2050 | 17,201,445 | Projection |
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