Mbale City — UN urban centre
Mbale City: 380,565 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #1,495 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2565; 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: 1.0788, 34.1842. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 54,236 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 62,376 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 70,354 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 86,062 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 102,971 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 159,012 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 300,694 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 380,565 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 494,851 | Projection |
| 2035 | 620,229 | Projection |
| 2040 | 900,853 | Projection |
| 2045 | 1,083,673 | Projection |
| 2050 | 1,276,059 | Projection |
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