Keren — UN urban centre
Keren: 256,896 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,276 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 595; 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: 15.7794, 38.4541. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 306,709 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 312,802 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 312,409 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 307,717 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 268,219 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 265,129 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 272,439 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 264,964 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 243,972 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 245,372 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 256,896 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 272,871 | Projection |
| 2035 | 301,307 | Projection |
| 2040 | 323,130 | Projection |
| 2045 | 341,591 | Projection |
| 2050 | 358,711 | Projection |
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