Dar es Salaam — UN urban centre
Dar es Salaam: 7,795,114 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #42 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 3566; territory: Tanzania (TZA). 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: -6.8335, 39.2241. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 299,151 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 538,288 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 761,953 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 1,207,959 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 1,587,045 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 2,071,645 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 2,741,761 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 3,776,518 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 5,209,937 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 6,851,004 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 7,795,114 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 8,865,491 | Projection |
| 2035 | 9,884,796 | Projection |
| 2040 | 10,976,782 | Projection |
| 2045 | 12,038,444 | Projection |
| 2050 | 13,159,908 | Projection |
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