Chinandega — UN urban centre
Chinandega: 103,134 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #6,001 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 8; 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: 12.6283, -87.1294. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 79,726 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 86,509 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 91,131 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 95,253 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 99,070 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 101,861 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 100,280 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 101,030 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 101,549 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 100,243 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 103,134 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 113,401 | Projection |
| 2035 | 120,804 | Projection |
| 2040 | 122,942 | Projection |
| 2045 | 124,458 | Projection |
| 2050 | 125,258 | Projection |
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