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Kaura-Namoda — UN urban centre

191,305

Kaura-Namoda: 191,305 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,138 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 7095; 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: 12.5908, 6.5856. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197595,758Estimate
198098,926Estimate
1985100,733Estimate
1990103,280Estimate
1995107,869Estimate
2000114,298Estimate
2005134,307Estimate
2010153,870Estimate
2015172,558Estimate
2020181,527Estimate
2025191,305Estimate
2030203,671Projection
2035219,546Projection
2040232,646Projection
2045243,199Projection
2050254,333Projection

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