Jeddah — UN urban centre
Jeddah: 4,284,080 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #100 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 1086; territory: Saudi Arabia (SAU). 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: 21.5293, 39.209. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 189,325 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 343,769 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 565,028 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 1,003,275 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 1,359,995 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 1,682,112 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 2,264,011 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 2,731,488 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 3,444,682 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 3,893,139 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 4,284,080 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 4,622,180 | Projection |
| 2035 | 4,921,280 | Projection |
| 2040 | 5,243,060 | Projection |
| 2045 | 5,520,036 | Projection |
| 2050 | 5,784,917 | Projection |
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