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Tarim — UN urban centre

155,444

Tarim: 155,444 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,900 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 5755; 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: 16.0538, 48.992. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
199053,047Estimate
199565,672Estimate
200076,344Estimate
200587,613Estimate
2010104,489Estimate
2015121,371Estimate
2020136,828Estimate
2025155,444Estimate
2030172,436Projection
2035201,397Projection
2040221,858Projection
2045240,576Projection
2050261,045Projection

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