Arba Minch — UN urban centre
Arba Minch: 168,228 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,589 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 4661; 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: 6.0229, 37.5503. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 55,451 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 61,083 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 68,430 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 83,264 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 97,520 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 114,929 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 101,639 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 117,211 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 135,775 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 154,769 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 168,228 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 185,295 | Projection |
| 2035 | 199,480 | Projection |
| 2040 | 214,428 | Projection |
| 2045 | 229,020 | Projection |
| 2050 | 242,755 | Projection |
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