Sekondi-Takoradi — UN urban centre
Sekondi-Takoradi: 1,127,436 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #457 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 1260; territory: Ghana (GHA). 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: 4.9323, -1.7528. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 189,542 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 205,706 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 229,790 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 248,653 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 271,058 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 301,359 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 426,689 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 562,867 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 774,254 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,036,490 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,127,436 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 1,204,629 | Projection |
| 2035 | 1,295,234 | Projection |
| 2040 | 1,428,315 | Projection |
| 2045 | 1,534,463 | Projection |
| 2050 | 1,627,013 | Projection |
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