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Emure-Ekiti — UN urban centre

125,198

Emure-Ekiti: 125,198 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #4,893 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 6092; 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: 7.4354, 5.4604. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
199051,990Estimate
199560,903Estimate
200068,294Estimate
200579,457Estimate
201090,701Estimate
2015104,265Estimate
2020114,492Estimate
2025125,198Estimate
2030135,107Projection
2035148,095Projection
2040159,763Projection
2045172,321Projection
2050181,228Projection

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