Amarah — UN urban centre
Amarah: 645,612 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #836 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 5080; 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: 31.8428, 47.1473. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 122,466 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 149,731 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 178,949 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 200,508 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 253,218 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 307,693 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 389,757 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 432,825 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 534,574 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 595,008 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 645,612 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 701,277 | Projection |
| 2035 | 759,065 | Projection |
| 2040 | 812,043 | Projection |
| 2045 | 855,589 | Projection |
| 2050 | 894,649 | Projection |
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