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Ile Oluji — UN urban centre

224,781

Ile Oluji: 224,781 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,624 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 5101; 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: 7.2123, 4.873. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197576,713Estimate
198082,595Estimate
198586,185Estimate
199090,197Estimate
1995101,120Estimate
2000113,955Estimate
2005129,326Estimate
2010152,381Estimate
2015174,979Estimate
2020203,225Estimate
2025224,781Estimate
2030246,735Projection
2035269,323Projection
2040292,169Projection
2045311,681Projection
2050329,870Projection

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