Smara — UN urban centre
Smara: 63,159 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #9,807 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 516; territory: ESH (ESH). 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: 26.6295, -11.759. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 51,240 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 52,501 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 62,039 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 63,159 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 63,757 | Projection |
| 2035 | 67,613 | Projection |
| 2040 | 74,743 | Projection |
| 2045 | 80,487 | Projection |
| 2050 | 84,284 | Projection |
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