Kandahar — UN urban centre
Kandahar: 799,015 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #662 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 3775; territory: Afghanistan (AFG). 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: 31.6238, 65.7183. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 101,992 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 110,607 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 85,108 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 101,257 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 178,856 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 247,227 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 354,265 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 444,728 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 606,889 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 760,396 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 799,015 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 862,317 | Projection |
| 2035 | 935,911 | Projection |
| 2040 | 1,006,635 | Projection |
| 2045 | 1,072,168 | Projection |
| 2050 | 1,150,851 | Projection |
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