Dakar — UN urban centre
Dakar: 3,852,475 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #120 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 33; 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: 14.7439, -17.3894. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 937,080 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 1,131,413 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 1,361,289 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 1,608,902 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 1,859,030 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 2,149,297 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 2,471,241 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 2,781,613 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 3,208,677 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 3,528,302 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 3,852,475 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 4,197,252 | Projection |
| 2035 | 4,503,165 | Projection |
| 2040 | 4,837,584 | Projection |
| 2045 | 5,104,637 | Projection |
| 2050 | 5,361,571 | Projection |
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