Quito — UN urban centre
Quito: 2,534,914 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #197 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2524; 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: -0.2034, -78.4989. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 637,094 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 808,568 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 1,016,878 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 1,296,317 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 1,471,229 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 1,654,205 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 1,849,167 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 2,048,089 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 2,228,146 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 2,429,432 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 2,534,914 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 2,645,662 | Projection |
| 2035 | 2,734,213 | Projection |
| 2040 | 2,806,485 | Projection |
| 2045 | 2,866,845 | Projection |
| 2050 | 2,907,330 | Projection |
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