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Caxito, 
Angola
80,602 people lived in Caxito in 2025. It is the 7734th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 39th largest in Angola.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Caxito governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Caxito grew
Where Caxito had 10 people in 1975, it had 15.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 342,256 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2040 and 2045.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Caxito through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Caxito in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Angola · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 57 cities in Angola in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Luanda. The ringed dot in colour is Caxito; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Caxito covered 8 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 1.9 km² of it. That is 24 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 2010, its built-up land has grown by 58%, and its people have fallen by 26%.
How to read this: each pale square is the city's whole area, the strong square inside it the part that is built on; one scale for all three, so a bigger square is more land. Hatched is the UN's projection.
Of every 100 people in Angola
Its share of Angola
Of every 1,000 people in Angola in 2025, 2 lived in Caxito, which is 80,602 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Angola, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Caxito's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 7167 Kiambu Kenya86,758
- 7454 Aweday Ethiopia83,488
- 7666 Bandar Seri Bentan Indonesia81,340
- 7728 Dawran AlJadeedah Yemen80,686
- 7734 Caxito80,602
- 7767 Mutubis Egypt80,283
- 7870 Enugu-Ezike Nigeria79,250
- 8055 Sassalemba77,355
- 8155 Harichand Pakistan76,461
In Angola, 2025
- 3525 Luau172,177
- 3696 Cazombo163,870
- 3741 N'dalatando161,700
- 4307 Lucapa141,466
- 7734 Caxito80,602
- 8055 Sassalemba77,355
How to read this: the figure in front of a name is where that city stands among the 12,138 cities the UN counted in 2025, and each bar is its people, on one scale per list. Numbers are missing where a city has fewer than 300,000 people and so has no page of its own.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Caxito are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1975 to 2025, then projection to 2050. Projected years are drawn hatched, and the UN publishes no range of uncertainty for a city. What a city means here, how the UN measures one, and why that number can differ from the one Caxito publishes about itself: how the figures here are put together.
Sources: UN WUP 2025 · Natural Earth · flag-icons. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries