Table 5.
Kano metropolitan area population counts/estimates by year (census, UN World Urbanization Prospects estimates, and Model 2 estimates).
| Year | Census count | UN estimate | UN growth rate | Model 2 estimates (90% interval) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lower | Mean | Upper | ||||
| 2006 | 2,826,307 | 2,957,573 | – | 2,823,909 | 3,223,453 | 3,678,770 |
| 2007 | – | 3,021,321 | 0.021 | – | – | – |
| 2008 | – | 3,086,534 | 0.021 | – | – | – |
| 2009 | – | 3,152,969 | 0.021 | – | – | – |
| 2010 | – | 3,220,929 | 0.021 | – | – | – |
| 2011 | – | 3,290,353 | 0.021 | – | – | – |
| 2012 | – | 3,361,373 | 0.021 | – | – | – |
| 2013 | – | 3,433,724 | 0.021 | – | – | – |
| 2014 | – | 3,507,632 | 0.021 | 3,886,128 | 4,466,607 | 5,134,557 |