Mota — UN urban centre
Mota: 143,577 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #4,255 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 4770; 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: 11.0804, 37.8808. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 110,654 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 83,014 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 79,424 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 88,858 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 95,920 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 103,916 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 98,669 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 108,953 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 118,318 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 131,790 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 143,577 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 157,946 | Projection |
| 2035 | 169,648 | Projection |
| 2040 | 183,459 | Projection |
| 2045 | 193,211 | Projection |
| 2050 | 206,029 | Projection |
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