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Malanville — UN urban centre

114,386

Malanville: 114,386 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #5,377 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2811; territory: Benin (BEN). 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: 11.8571, 3.3848. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
200556,246Estimate
201071,447Estimate
201584,622Estimate
202096,619Estimate
2025114,386Estimate
2030130,441Projection
2035148,571Projection
2040166,254Projection
2045183,263Projection
2050200,208Projection

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