Kigali — UN urban centre
Kigali: 1,483,711 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #344 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 580; territory: Rwanda (RWA). 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: -1.9525, 30.0848. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 81,256 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 105,010 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 172,685 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 264,189 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 436,045 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 636,559 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 806,225 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 979,717 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,320,690 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,483,711 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 1,664,454 | Projection |
| 2035 | 1,815,986 | Projection |
| 2040 | 1,976,180 | Projection |
| 2045 | 2,154,978 | Projection |
| 2050 | 2,300,975 | Projection |
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