Al Hillah — UN urban centre
Al Hillah: 1,055,267 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #486 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 3861; 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: 32.5264, 44.2658. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 132,348 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 163,253 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 192,480 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 214,574 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 248,498 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 294,134 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 443,538 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 521,311 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 798,750 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 894,363 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,055,267 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 1,247,394 | Projection |
| 2035 | 1,449,442 | Projection |
| 2040 | 1,656,543 | Projection |
| 2045 | 1,868,859 | Projection |
| 2050 | 2,062,503 | Projection |
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