Antananarivo — UN urban centre
Antananarivo: 3,916,219 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #118 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 1961; territory: Madagascar (MDG). 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: -18.8651, 47.5378. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 288,835 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 392,639 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 527,212 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 773,848 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 973,461 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 1,155,504 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 1,354,711 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 1,884,793 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 2,639,555 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 3,520,115 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 3,916,219 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 4,299,564 | Projection |
| 2035 | 4,806,776 | Projection |
| 2040 | 5,214,733 | Projection |
| 2045 | 5,617,519 | Projection |
| 2050 | 6,009,295 | Projection |
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