City of Loja — UN urban centre
City of Loja: 172,536 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,518 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2143; 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: -3.996, -79.2073. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 104,100 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 110,667 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 119,498 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 127,072 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 136,254 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 143,137 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 150,877 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 157,908 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 162,748 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 168,846 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 172,536 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 178,092 | Projection |
| 2035 | 181,294 | Projection |
| 2040 | 185,205 | Projection |
| 2045 | 195,884 | Projection |
| 2050 | 196,427 | Projection |
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