Barawa — UN urban centre
Barawa: 111,063 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #5,554 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2197; 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: 1.1148, 44.0276. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 61,609 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 75,287 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 86,593 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 92,904 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 87,752 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 111,063 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 135,824 | Projection |
| 2035 | 161,023 | Projection |
| 2040 | 186,674 | Projection |
| 2045 | 214,055 | Projection |
| 2050 | 240,081 | Projection |
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