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Jinka — UN urban centre

180,565

Jinka: 180,565 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,341 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2636; territory: Ethiopia (ETH). 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: 5.7835, 36.5672. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197564,879Estimate
198069,295Estimate
198574,978Estimate
199086,920Estimate
199599,727Estimate
2000117,033Estimate
2005102,415Estimate
2010117,136Estimate
2015134,882Estimate
2020154,672Estimate
2025180,565Estimate
2030202,675Projection
2035224,813Projection
2040245,880Projection
2045268,773Projection
2050289,380Projection

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