Ouagadougou — UN urban centre
Ouagadougou: 3,206,222 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #152 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 1748; territory: Burkina Faso (BFA). 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: 12.3617, -1.5272. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 76,288 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 212,849 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 349,642 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 458,934 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 582,588 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 878,214 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 1,386,501 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 1,842,201 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 2,332,064 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 2,938,711 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 3,206,222 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 3,488,901 | Projection |
| 2035 | 3,742,871 | Projection |
| 2040 | 4,005,780 | Projection |
| 2045 | 4,205,406 | Projection |
| 2050 | 4,401,534 | Projection |
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