El Mansura — UN urban centre
El Mansura: 1,712,781 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #285 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 5256; territory: Egypt (EGY). 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: 31.0471, 31.4097. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 413,859 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 567,544 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 647,994 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 745,787 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 824,458 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 914,326 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 1,098,113 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 1,253,490 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 1,486,803 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,621,483 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,712,781 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 1,829,557 | Projection |
| 2035 | 1,948,110 | Projection |
| 2040 | 2,037,441 | Projection |
| 2045 | 2,119,288 | Projection |
| 2050 | 2,199,982 | Projection |
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