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Ijebu-Ode — UN urban centre

500,036

Ijebu-Ode: 500,036 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #1,105 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 3172; territory: Nigeria (NGA). 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: 6.8217, 3.9294. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197564,471Estimate
198077,555Estimate
198589,723Estimate
1990105,278Estimate
1995130,950Estimate
2000182,831Estimate
2005216,609Estimate
2010254,271Estimate
2015305,870Estimate
2020415,077Estimate
2025500,036Estimate
2030571,871Projection
2035672,626Projection
2040755,954Projection
2045867,463Projection
2050943,420Projection

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