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Kibet — UN urban centre

90,261

Kibet: 90,261 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #6,874 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 5983; 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: 8.0241, 38.3281. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
200056,346Estimate
200551,010Estimate
201058,930Estimate
201567,519Estimate
202078,624Estimate
202590,261Estimate
2030101,569Projection
2035131,037Projection
2040147,738Projection
2045162,791Projection
2050194,296Projection

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