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Livingstone, 
Zambia
203,972 people lived in Livingstone in 2025. It is the 2926th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 8th largest in Zambia.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Livingstone 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 Livingstone grew
For every 10 people in Livingstone in 1990, there were 33.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 329,578 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 1990, 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.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Livingstone through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Livingstone in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Zambia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Zambia and its 33 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Lusaka). Livingstone is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Livingstone covered 44 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 9.7 km² of it. That is 48 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown to 2.1 times its size, and its people are 3.4 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 Zambia
Its share of Zambia
Of every 1,000 people in Zambia in 2025, 9 lived in Livingstone, which is 203,972 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Zambia, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Livingstone's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2920 Alaba Kulito Ethiopia204,316
- 2921 Nanxun China204,276
- 2922 Batkhela Pakistan204,156
- 2924 Asarganj India204,072
- 2926 Livingstone203,972
- 2927 Muktagacha Bangladesh203,965
- 2933 Duekoue Côte d’Ivoire203,323
- 2940 Bajil Yemen202,715
- 2948 Supaul India202,024
In Zambia, 2025
- 1710 Mansa335,503
- 1976 Chingola294,193
- 2177 Kabwe267,618
- 2517 Kasama233,587
- 2926 Livingstone203,972
- 4302 Kapiri Mposhi141,802
- 4554 Chilanga133,860
How to read this: names are in order of size, the leading number being each city's rank among all 12,138 in 2025; the bars share a scale within a list. A jump in the ranks means a city under 300,000 people, which is not given a page here.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Livingstone are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1990 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 Livingstone 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