Bouaké — UN urban centre
Bouaké: 724,691 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #742 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2990; territory: Ivory Coast (CIV). 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: 7.6998, -5.0325. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 170,854 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 233,048 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 313,699 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 392,976 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 446,230 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 495,302 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 530,498 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 564,854 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 598,837 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 680,078 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 724,691 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 769,249 | Projection |
| 2035 | 814,683 | Projection |
| 2040 | 870,477 | Projection |
| 2045 | 915,856 | Projection |
| 2050 | 960,726 | Projection |
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