Al Ruways Industrial city — UN urban centre
Al Ruways Industrial city: 70,011 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #8,864 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 143; territory: United Arab Emirates (ARE). 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: 24.1261, 52.7311. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 66,293 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 67,411 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 56,933 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 70,011 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 78,276 | Projection |
| 2035 | 86,123 | Projection |
| 2040 | 93,454 | Projection |
| 2045 | 100,451 | Projection |
| 2050 | 110,683 | Projection |
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