Hargeisa — UN urban centre
Hargeisa: 1,593,542 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #310 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 1960; territory: Somalia (SOM). 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: 9.5624, 44.0616. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 253,726 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 306,711 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 371,978 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 449,739 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 540,179 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 644,680 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 752,433 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 868,555 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 970,753 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,413,614 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,593,542 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 1,797,245 | Projection |
| 2035 | 1,976,043 | Projection |
| 2040 | 2,166,416 | Projection |
| 2045 | 2,331,269 | Projection |
| 2050 | 2,505,080 | Projection |
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