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Kipushi, 
Democratic Republic of the Congo
247,546 people lived in Kipushi in 2025. It is the 2360th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 37th largest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Kipushi governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Kipushi grew
Where Kipushi had 10 people in 2000, it had 37.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 498,827 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2025 and 2030. The UN first counts it as a city in 2000, when it passed 50,000 people.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Kipushi through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Kipushi in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Democratic Republic of the Congo · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 223 cities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Kinshasa. The ringed dot in colour is Kipushi; 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, Kipushi covered 20 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 4.6 km² of it. That is 19 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 2000, its built-up land has grown to 2.2 times its size, and its people are 3.7 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 100 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Its share of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Of every 1,000 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2025, 2 lived in Kipushi, which is 247,546 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 Kipushi. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2353 Lisala248,434
- 2354 Naugarh India248,273
- 2355 Demba248,191
- 2358 Qus Egypt247,941
- 2360 Kipushi247,546
- 2362 Sreemangal Bangladesh247,298
- 2364 Koforidua Ghana246,770
- 2366 Irgalem Ethiopia246,701
- 2368 Phan Thiết Vietnam246,665
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2025
- 2164 Kabinda269,115
- 2279 Kilwa256,165
- 2353 Lisala248,434
- 2355 Demba248,191
- 2360 Kipushi247,546
- 2404 Kamituga243,261
- 2410 Kambove242,939
- 2421 Boma242,042
- 2488 Mbanza-Ngungu236,056
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 Kipushi are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2000 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 Kipushi 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