Tripoli — UN urban centre
Tripoli: 1,239,823 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #411 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 400; territory: Libya (LBY). 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: 32.8546, 13.216. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 512,268 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 582,508 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 569,533 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 619,463 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 677,308 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 811,523 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 956,154 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 1,047,431 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 1,155,590 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,173,125 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,239,823 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 1,294,446 | Projection |
| 2035 | 1,337,251 | Projection |
| 2040 | 1,392,925 | Projection |
| 2045 | 1,434,152 | Projection |
| 2050 | 1,459,558 | Projection |
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