Kumasi — UN urban centre
Kumasi: 4,297,984 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #98 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 1468; 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: 6.6955, -1.6139. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 415,938 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 479,743 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 566,107 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 771,424 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 1,107,283 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 1,488,822 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 1,887,186 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 2,397,810 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 3,053,384 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 4,004,772 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 4,297,984 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 4,594,850 | Projection |
| 2035 | 4,842,085 | Projection |
| 2040 | 5,079,543 | Projection |
| 2045 | 5,272,466 | Projection |
| 2050 | 5,448,725 | Projection |
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