Homs — UN urban centre
Homs: 940,460 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #554 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2106; 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: 34.7279, 36.7187. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 185,262 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 226,577 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 272,367 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 322,012 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 386,526 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 471,342 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 642,927 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 838,752 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 746,617 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 791,908 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 940,460 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 1,054,735 | Projection |
| 2035 | 1,125,241 | Projection |
| 2040 | 1,169,058 | Projection |
| 2045 | 1,200,868 | Projection |
| 2050 | 1,227,493 | Projection |
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