Kabul — UN urban centre
Kabul: 5,635,737 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #68 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 4703; 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: 34.5297, 69.1552. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 763,068 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 1,124,708 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 1,466,538 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 1,896,014 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 2,193,072 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 2,714,906 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 3,279,949 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 3,766,717 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 4,283,173 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 5,228,980 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 5,635,737 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 6,254,899 | Projection |
| 2035 | 6,731,945 | Projection |
| 2040 | 7,217,958 | Projection |
| 2045 | 7,595,310 | Projection |
| 2050 | 8,003,002 | Projection |
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