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Lobito, 
Angola
516,153 people lived in Lobito in 2025. It is the 1077th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 9th largest in Angola.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Lobito grew
For every 10 people in Lobito in 1975, there were 52 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 584,837 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1985 and 1990.
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
Lobito through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Lobito in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Angola · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Lobito is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Angola in 2025, 57 in all, led by Luanda, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Lobito covered 67 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 16 km² of it. That is 30 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.8 times its size, and its people are 5.2 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 100 people in Angola
Its share of Angola
Of every 100 people in Angola in 2025, 1 lived in Lobito, which is 516,153 people.
How to read this: shrink Angola to 100 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Lobito; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1073 Kerman Iran517,216
- 1074 Port Sudan Sudan517,023
- 1075 Concepción Chile516,741
- 1076 Minna Nigeria516,451
- 1077 Lobito516,153
- 1078 Zhuji China515,549
- 1079 Chenzhou China514,905
- 1080 Saurimo514,728
- 1081 Zamboanga City Philippines513,813
In Angola, 2025
- 752 Luena714,289
- 781 Cuito689,795
- 853 Huambo634,669
- 926 Benguela589,289
- 1077 Lobito516,153
- 1080 Saurimo514,728
- 1355 Moçâmedes415,361
- 1381 Uíge408,927
- 1459 Soyo389,945
How to read this: the number before each name is its place among all 12,138 cities in the world in 2025; bars are people, on one scale per list. Only cities that reach 300,000 people have a page here, so a gap in the numbers is a smaller city.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Lobito 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 Lobito 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