Kola Diba — UN urban centre
Kola Diba: 66,723 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #9,292 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 3669; 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: 12.4279, 37.3366. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 52,470 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 57,235 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 62,413 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 66,723 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 74,990 | Projection |
| 2035 | 79,482 | Projection |
| 2040 | 91,311 | Projection |
| 2045 | 96,258 | Projection |
| 2050 | 101,262 | Projection |
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