Ado — UN urban centre
Ado: 300,622 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #1,907 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 7992; 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: 9.0152, 7.6016. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 51,018 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 90,915 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 120,152 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 144,920 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 186,208 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 231,860 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 250,647 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 300,622 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 348,729 | Projection |
| 2035 | 397,434 | Projection |
| 2040 | 441,460 | Projection |
| 2045 | 491,502 | Projection |
| 2050 | 548,270 | Projection |
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