Khartoum — UN urban centre
Khartoum: 6,809,355 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #56 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 4325; territory: Sudan (SDN). 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: 15.6335, 32.4952. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 870,553 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 1,402,918 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 1,959,923 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 2,748,405 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 3,552,721 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 4,135,102 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 4,688,502 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 5,260,479 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 5,897,252 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 6,426,646 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 6,809,355 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 7,471,392 | Projection |
| 2035 | 7,977,851 | Projection |
| 2040 | 8,509,480 | Projection |
| 2045 | 8,952,970 | Projection |
| 2050 | 9,444,354 | Projection |
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