Hafar Al-Batin — UN urban centre
Hafar Al-Batin: 302,534 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #1,895 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2773; 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: 28.4213, 45.9651. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 60,680 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 93,212 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 153,369 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 195,583 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 236,192 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 262,204 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 302,534 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 321,646 | Projection |
| 2035 | 338,933 | Projection |
| 2040 | 358,569 | Projection |
| 2045 | 373,423 | Projection |
| 2050 | 392,830 | Projection |
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