Charanchi — UN urban centre
Charanchi: 58,898 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #10,491 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 8062; 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: 12.6697, 7.7295. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 52,053 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 55,459 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 57,662 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 53,935 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 58,898 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 62,716 | Projection |
| 2035 | 66,024 | Projection |
| 2040 | 69,268 | Projection |
| 2045 | 86,770 | Projection |
| 2050 | 90,605 | Projection |
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