Malé — UN urban centre
Malé: 236,072 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,487 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 152; territory: Maldives (MDV). 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: 4.1744, 73.5081. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 50,808 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 62,080 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 68,230 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 79,236 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 102,343 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 126,713 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 153,229 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 221,892 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 236,072 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 244,785 | Projection |
| 2035 | 252,345 | Projection |
| 2040 | 260,490 | Projection |
| 2045 | 269,002 | Projection |
| 2050 | 276,517 | Projection |
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