Accra — UN urban centre
Accra: 5,592,780 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #71 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 3336; 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: 5.6037, -0.2106. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 856,210 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 1,167,571 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 1,423,901 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 1,676,168 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 2,166,066 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 2,612,071 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 3,224,177 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 3,938,130 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 4,598,412 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 5,206,925 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 5,592,780 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 5,966,461 | Projection |
| 2035 | 6,309,498 | Projection |
| 2040 | 6,650,885 | Projection |
| 2045 | 6,977,550 | Projection |
| 2050 | 7,231,113 | Projection |
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