N'Djaména — UN urban centre
N'Djaména: 1,934,909 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #257 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 407; territory: Chad (TCD). 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: 12.1267, 15.0722. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 220,177 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 309,458 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 413,830 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 494,358 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 609,273 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 796,563 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 973,849 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 1,173,566 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 1,391,764 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,645,369 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,934,909 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 2,167,130 | Projection |
| 2035 | 2,377,789 | Projection |
| 2040 | 2,598,968 | Projection |
| 2045 | 2,832,476 | Projection |
| 2050 | 3,044,505 | Projection |
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