Timbuktu — UN urban centre
Timbuktu: 113,500 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #5,429 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2000; territory: Mali (MLI). 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: 16.7725, -3.0048. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 63,195 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 82,700 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 105,081 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 113,500 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 123,915 | Projection |
| 2035 | 131,017 | Projection |
| 2040 | 140,500 | Projection |
| 2045 | 149,283 | Projection |
| 2050 | 159,990 | Projection |
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