Kirkuk — UN urban centre
Kirkuk: 1,153,160 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #444 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2835; territory: Iraq (IRQ). 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: 35.4471, 44.388. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 118,362 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 147,792 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 211,954 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 258,559 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 345,771 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 451,213 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 577,766 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 686,333 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 895,164 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,050,652 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,153,160 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 1,261,205 | Projection |
| 2035 | 1,369,454 | Projection |
| 2040 | 1,493,070 | Projection |
| 2045 | 1,593,387 | Projection |
| 2050 | 1,675,853 | Projection |
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