Baghdad — UN urban centre
Baghdad: 6,390,735 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #63 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 3303; 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: 33.3371, 44.3886. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 2,035,844 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 2,507,722 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 2,876,779 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 3,306,379 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 3,749,606 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 4,272,066 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 4,446,161 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 4,778,256 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 5,405,531 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 6,133,555 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 6,390,735 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 6,666,450 | Projection |
| 2035 | 6,867,199 | Projection |
| 2040 | 7,079,202 | Projection |
| 2045 | 7,312,127 | Projection |
| 2050 | 7,464,523 | Projection |
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