Babahoyo — UN urban centre
Babahoyo: 104,458 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #5,917 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 1730; 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: -1.8038, -79.5262. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 54,505 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 60,740 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 67,840 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 74,147 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 80,622 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 87,886 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 94,685 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 100,989 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 104,458 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 109,773 | Projection |
| 2035 | 112,797 | Projection |
| 2040 | 115,272 | Projection |
| 2045 | 117,100 | Projection |
| 2050 | 119,424 | Projection |
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