Touba — UN urban centre
Touba: 1,151,552 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #446 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 1829; territory: Senegal (SEN). 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: 14.8553, -15.8866. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 298,941 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 330,307 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 375,979 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 479,473 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 551,172 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 615,607 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 696,985 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 795,693 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 926,037 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,061,478 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,151,552 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 1,250,348 | Projection |
| 2035 | 1,348,128 | Projection |
| 2040 | 1,430,201 | Projection |
| 2045 | 1,499,381 | Projection |
| 2050 | 1,568,939 | Projection |
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