Lomé — UN urban centre
Lomé: 2,415,011 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #204 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 801; territory: Togo (TGO). 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: 6.1855, 1.235. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 203,623 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 312,484 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 427,037 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 575,384 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 802,862 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 1,068,727 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 1,519,927 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 1,747,445 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 1,968,819 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 2,249,363 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 2,415,011 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 2,633,091 | Projection |
| 2035 | 2,796,823 | Projection |
| 2040 | 2,964,604 | Projection |
| 2045 | 3,114,953 | Projection |
| 2050 | 3,268,292 | Projection |
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