Guayaquil — UN urban centre
Guayaquil: 3,157,825 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #157 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 772; 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: -2.166, -79.9099. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 934,056 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 1,163,043 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 1,394,345 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 1,600,441 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 1,862,089 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 2,126,068 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 2,340,793 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 2,538,367 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 2,768,223 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 3,038,493 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 3,157,825 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 3,304,098 | Projection |
| 2035 | 3,418,675 | Projection |
| 2040 | 3,515,049 | Projection |
| 2045 | 3,588,472 | Projection |
| 2050 | 3,641,317 | Projection |
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