Harare — UN urban centre
Harare: 2,117,195 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #238 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 1398; territory: Zimbabwe (ZWE). 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: -17.8654, 31.0228. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 494,144 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 579,220 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 841,583 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 1,250,454 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 1,549,627 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 1,750,471 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 1,835,652 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 1,958,618 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 2,026,937 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,883,591 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 2,117,195 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 2,346,959 | Projection |
| 2035 | 2,616,168 | Projection |
| 2040 | 2,953,549 | Projection |
| 2045 | 3,213,727 | Projection |
| 2050 | 3,453,220 | Projection |
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