Teseney — UN urban centre
Teseney: 95,575 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #6,461 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 127; territory: Eritrea (ERI). 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: 15.1039, 36.656. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 74,855 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 61,350 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 57,764 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 57,903 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 53,501 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 58,038 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 67,580 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 74,892 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 78,822 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 90,406 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 95,575 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 102,863 | Projection |
| 2035 | 113,018 | Projection |
| 2040 | 121,289 | Projection |
| 2045 | 130,341 | Projection |
| 2050 | 138,905 | Projection |
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