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Ago-Iwoye — UN urban centre

189,841

Ago-Iwoye: 189,841 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,167 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 3229; 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: 6.9453, 3.9243. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
198561,334Estimate
199069,685Estimate
199580,171Estimate
200094,259Estimate
2005107,956Estimate
2010125,464Estimate
2015145,890Estimate
2020164,366Estimate
2025189,841Estimate
2030215,034Projection
2035241,873Projection
2040272,459Projection
2045300,190Projection
2050325,454Projection

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