Esmeraldas — UN urban centre
Esmeraldas: 143,686 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #4,252 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 1547; territory: Ecuador (ECU). 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: 0.9661, -79.6561. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 51,022 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 64,634 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 77,095 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 86,519 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 98,524 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 115,379 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 139,494 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 143,686 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 150,229 | Projection |
| 2035 | 161,041 | Projection |
| 2040 | 165,947 | Projection |
| 2045 | 169,770 | Projection |
| 2050 | 172,541 | Projection |
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