Monrovia — UN urban centre
Monrovia: 1,879,092 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #268 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 44; territory: Liberia (LBR). 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: 6.3081, -10.7211. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 64,106 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 289,244 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 498,378 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 1,046,724 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 485,756 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 927,944 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 1,342,283 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 1,240,249 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 1,486,188 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,768,218 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,879,092 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 2,016,980 | Projection |
| 2035 | 2,142,079 | Projection |
| 2040 | 2,269,194 | Projection |
| 2045 | 2,382,793 | Projection |
| 2050 | 2,487,002 | Projection |
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