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Maradi — UN urban centre

666,205

Maradi: 666,205 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #813 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2168; territory: Niger (NER). 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: 13.504, 7.1046. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197559,903Estimate
198077,659Estimate
1985106,784Estimate
1990135,169Estimate
1995175,879Estimate
2000209,871Estimate
2005343,507Estimate
2010447,209Estimate
2015533,966Estimate
2020580,240Estimate
2025666,205Estimate
2030759,359Projection
2035835,391Projection
2040935,545Projection
20451,030,661Projection
20501,102,938Projection

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