Managua — UN urban centre
Managua: 1,315,865 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #389 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 345; territory: Nicaragua (NIC). 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: 12.1288, -86.2548. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 421,446 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 503,003 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 588,216 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 709,251 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 891,422 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 938,070 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 1,024,191 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 1,125,988 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 1,184,730 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,281,736 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,315,865 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 1,349,670 | Projection |
| 2035 | 1,372,330 | Projection |
| 2040 | 1,393,539 | Projection |
| 2045 | 1,413,333 | Projection |
| 2050 | 1,416,808 | Projection |
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