Cartagena — UN urban centre
Cartagena: 1,008,584 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #510 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 3215; territory: Colombia (COL). 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: 10.3972, -75.5032. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 372,584 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 438,330 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 514,237 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 571,518 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 637,895 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 707,252 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 815,825 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 855,396 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 894,912 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 923,834 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,008,584 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 1,067,018 | Projection |
| 2035 | 1,108,882 | Projection |
| 2040 | 1,140,066 | Projection |
| 2045 | 1,158,302 | Projection |
| 2050 | 1,168,321 | Projection |
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