Mogadishu — UN urban centre
Mogadishu: 4,399,430 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #95 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 3197; 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: 2.0539, 45.3314. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 442,327 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 542,495 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 757,066 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 1,046,790 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 1,164,073 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 1,239,319 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 1,460,725 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 1,679,156 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 2,249,412 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 3,845,484 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 4,399,430 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 4,995,417 | Projection |
| 2035 | 5,543,950 | Projection |
| 2040 | 6,127,000 | Projection |
| 2045 | 6,632,800 | Projection |
| 2050 | 7,194,603 | Projection |
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