Port-au-Prince — UN urban centre
Port-au-Prince: 1,868,268 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #270 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 1351; territory: Haiti (HTI). 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: 18.5476, -72.3235. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 969,673 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 1,134,383 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 1,341,054 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 1,610,054 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 1,855,930 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 1,990,492 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 2,278,616 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 1,991,663 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 1,947,050 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,848,970 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,868,268 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 1,886,301 | Projection |
| 2035 | 1,897,652 | Projection |
| 2040 | 1,902,691 | Projection |
| 2045 | 1,907,688 | Projection |
| 2050 | 1,904,491 | Projection |
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