Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo

For every 10 people in Kindu in 1975, there were 55.6 in 2025.

On the UN's projection it will have 570,722 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2015 and 2020.

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: 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). Kindu is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.

In 2025, Kindu covered 56 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 14 km² of it. That is 44 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 6.8 times its size, and its people are 5.6 times as many.

How to read this: pale is the whole of the city's land; the stronger square inside it is what is actually built on. The three are drawn to the same scale, so a larger square really is more land, and hatching means the year is the UN's projection rather than a count.

Of every 1,000 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2025, 3 lived in Kindu, which is 309,727 people.

How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Kindu's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.

In the world, 2025

1. 1855 Yuanlin City Taiwan310,380
2. 1856 Beed India310,278
3. 1857 Taubaté Brazil310,170
4. 1858 Huairou China309,856
5. 1859 Kindu309,727
6. 1860 Sandwip Bangladesh309,439
7. 1861 Moshi Tanzania309,202
8. 1862 Xichang China309,170
9. 1863 Madhepura India309,065

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2025

1. 1631 Mwene-Ditu351,319
2. 1653 Ngandajika345,996
3. 1784 Mulongo321,881
4. 1791 Ilebo321,392
5. 1859 Kindu309,727
6. 1928 Fungurume298,713
7. 1973 Kasumbalesa294,623
8. 1985 Kasaji292,523
9. 2079 Mweka279,312

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.

Democratic Republic of the Congo · All the world's cities

The figures for Kindu 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 Kindu 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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