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Ebolowa — UN urban centre

173,565

Ebolowa: 173,565 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,495 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2171; territory: Cameroon (CMR). 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: 2.9215, 11.1556. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197559,081Estimate
198061,340Estimate
198562,788Estimate
199065,190Estimate
199577,874Estimate
200088,667Estimate
200598,236Estimate
2010112,875Estimate
2015128,042Estimate
2020141,798Estimate
2025173,565Estimate
2030211,432Projection
2035267,325Projection
2040316,322Projection
2045367,182Projection
2050420,309Projection

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