Kalemie, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Count 10 people in Kalemie in 1985 and the same count gives 145.1 in 2025.

On the UN's projection it will have 1.1 million people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes a million people between 2040 and 2045. The UN first counts it as a city in 1985, when it passed 50,000 people.

projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low

How to read this: each column is one of the UN's five-yearly estimates, 1975 through 2050, and taller means more people. Where a column is hatched the year has not happened yet. The strip under the columns is the UN's own confidence in each figure, palest where it is least sure; where it is blank the city was not on the list at all.

How to read this: the Democratic Republic of the Congo and its 223 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Kinshasa). Kalemie is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.

In 2025, Kalemie covered 54 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 11 km² of it. That is 14 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 3.1 times its size, and its people are 14.5 times as many.

How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.

Of every 1,000 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2025, 7 lived in Kalemie, which is 758,379 people.

How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; the coloured squares live in Kalemie. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.

In the world, 2025

1. 700 Newcastle upon Tyne United Kingdom760,969
2. 701 Yangzhou China759,812
3. 702 Mudanjiang China758,800
4. 703 Agartala India758,699
5. 704 Kalemie758,379
6. 705 Yola Nigeria758,153
7. 706 Taxila Pakistan757,451
8. 707 Xinyu China756,365
9. 708 Bonn Germany756,044

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2025

1. 487 Tshikapa1,054,686
2. 550 Bukavu948,948
3. 574 Kisangani900,330
4. 654 Goma809,601
5. 704 Kalemie758,379
6. 741 Kamina724,982
7. 809 Likasi673,034
8. 941 Bunia582,792
9. 1003 Kikwit549,102

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 Kalemie are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1985 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 Kalemie 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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