Barranquilla — UN urban centre
Barranquilla: 2,208,021 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #228 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 3928; 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: 10.9513, -74.7981. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 847,758 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 968,724 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 1,101,775 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 1,242,508 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 1,363,473 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 1,494,566 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 1,628,299 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 1,778,894 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 1,927,300 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 2,091,220 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 2,208,021 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 2,331,790 | Projection |
| 2035 | 2,407,979 | Projection |
| 2040 | 2,459,695 | Projection |
| 2045 | 2,497,381 | Projection |
| 2050 | 2,514,652 | Projection |
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