Bamako — UN urban centre
Bamako: 4,244,881 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #103 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 374; 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: 12.631, -7.9884. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 343,844 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 468,669 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 623,390 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 811,607 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 988,669 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 1,249,186 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 1,773,603 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 2,363,588 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 2,916,687 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 3,650,740 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 4,244,881 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 4,914,608 | Projection |
| 2035 | 5,634,360 | Projection |
| 2040 | 6,370,939 | Projection |
| 2045 | 7,000,634 | Projection |
| 2050 | 7,639,829 | Projection |
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