Kano — UN urban centre
Kano: 4,840,280 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #89 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 8435; 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: 11.9852, 8.5093. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 773,600 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 1,209,213 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 1,748,837 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 2,029,410 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 2,344,933 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 2,719,854 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 3,174,260 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 3,572,276 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 4,069,542 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 4,546,349 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 4,840,280 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 5,173,463 | Projection |
| 2035 | 5,451,121 | Projection |
| 2040 | 5,766,396 | Projection |
| 2045 | 6,132,194 | Projection |
| 2050 | 6,361,602 | Projection |
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