Aleppo — UN urban centre
Aleppo: 2,922,277 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #168 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 1601; territory: Syria (SYR). 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: 36.2045, 37.1429. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 639,616 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 793,544 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 970,569 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 1,177,033 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 1,513,004 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 1,857,657 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 2,346,733 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 3,774,294 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 1,112,731 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 2,427,020 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 2,922,277 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 3,365,120 | Projection |
| 2035 | 3,668,803 | Projection |
| 2040 | 3,866,639 | Projection |
| 2045 | 4,089,942 | Projection |
| 2050 | 4,318,836 | Projection |
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