Abidjan — UN urban centre
Abidjan: 6,621,711 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #60 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 3439; 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: 5.356, -4.0197. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 1,024,745 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 1,526,281 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 1,935,737 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 2,390,247 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 2,896,490 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 3,441,806 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 3,963,591 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 4,501,574 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 5,105,465 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 6,063,950 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 6,621,711 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 7,239,280 | Projection |
| 2035 | 7,835,112 | Projection |
| 2040 | 8,489,866 | Projection |
| 2045 | 9,126,281 | Projection |
| 2050 | 9,775,147 | Projection |
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