Kampala — UN urban centre
Kampala: 4,880,943 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #85 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 1866; territory: Uganda (UGA). 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: 0.3212, 32.5795. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 604,015 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 677,330 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 812,431 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 1,003,981 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 1,313,574 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 1,696,917 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 2,112,339 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 2,819,562 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 3,479,366 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 4,233,072 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 4,880,943 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 5,537,167 | Projection |
| 2035 | 6,132,904 | Projection |
| 2040 | 6,775,072 | Projection |
| 2045 | 7,370,260 | Projection |
| 2050 | 7,893,623 | Projection |
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