Hodeidah — UN urban centre
Hodeidah: 827,012 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #634 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 456; territory: Yemen (YEM). 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: 14.7981, 42.9572. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 141,249 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 169,646 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 206,051 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 265,203 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 335,036 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 394,832 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 458,506 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 538,532 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 625,891 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 769,740 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 827,012 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 891,333 | Projection |
| 2035 | 956,450 | Projection |
| 2040 | 1,022,814 | Projection |
| 2045 | 1,083,419 | Projection |
| 2050 | 1,147,757 | Projection |
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