Dilolo, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Where Dilolo had 10 people in 2010, it had 27.3 in 2025.

On the UN's projection it will have 389,070 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2030 and 2035. The UN first counts it as a city in 2010, when it passed 50,000 people.

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.

How to read this: Dilolo is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2025, 223 in all, led by Kinshasa, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.

In 2025, Dilolo covered 15 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 2.9 km² of it. That is 15 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 2010, its built-up land has grown by 93%, and its people are 2.7 times as many.

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 1,000 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2025, 2 lived in Dilolo, which is 197,075 people.

How to read this: shrink the Democratic Republic of the Congo to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Dilolo; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.

In the world, 2025

1. 3025 Unaizah Saudi Arabia197,665
2. 3032 Dutse Nigeria197,314
3. 3031 Oltiariq Uzbekistan197,314
4. 3035 Gulu Uganda197,090
5. 3036 Dilolo197,075
6. 3039 Mian Channu Pakistan196,976
7. 3042 Dina Pakistan196,799
8. 3043 Bhalwal Pakistan196,792
9. 3049 Shujaabad Pakistan196,255

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2025

1. 2897 Luena205,691
2. 2908 Mongbwalu205,051
3. 2996 Musangala199,847
4. 3015 Kasangulu198,467
5. 3036 Dilolo197,075
6. 3057 Kisantu195,949
7. 3094 Kinzao193,973
8. 3127 Nyunzu192,205
9. 3166 Rubaya189,880

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.

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The figures for Dilolo are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2010 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 Dilolo 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 →

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