Benin City — UN urban centre
Benin City: 1,845,432 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #271 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 6186; 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: 6.3421, 5.6133. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 217,878 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 413,809 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 568,736 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 807,881 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 993,441 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 1,112,042 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 1,236,149 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 1,420,584 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 1,580,986 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,739,421 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,845,432 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 1,957,186 | Projection |
| 2035 | 2,050,250 | Projection |
| 2040 | 2,161,670 | Projection |
| 2045 | 2,246,647 | Projection |
| 2050 | 2,314,873 | Projection |
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