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Ho — UN urban centre

243,211

Ho: 243,211 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,405 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 3980; 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: 6.6081, 0.473. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
198552,812Estimate
199067,415Estimate
199586,572Estimate
2000105,389Estimate
2005134,114Estimate
2010170,987Estimate
2015203,116Estimate
2020220,911Estimate
2025243,211Estimate
2030271,660Projection
2035293,772Projection
2040325,824Projection
2045347,347Projection
2050369,466Projection

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