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Loutu, 
Democratic Republic of the Congo
66,056 people lived in Loutu in 2025. It is the 9376th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 162nd largest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Loutu's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Loutu grew
Count 10 people in Loutu in 2020 and the same count gives 12.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 367,150 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2040 and 2045. The UN first counts it as a city in 2020, 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
Loutu through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Loutu 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: 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). Loutu 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, Loutu covered 20 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 2.3 km² of it. That is 35 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 2020, its built-up land has grown by 35%, and its people have grown by 25%.
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 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, 1 lived in Loutu, which is 66,056 people.
How to read this: shrink the Democratic Republic of the Congo to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Loutu; 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
- 8652 Walungu71,897
- 8887 Ikot Ide Nigeria69,806
- 8905 Wenago Ethiopia69,703
- 9118 Chelenko Ethiopia67,991
- 9376 Loutu66,056
- 9384 Tarail Bangladesh66,019
- 9869 Tokar Sudan62,788
- 10437 Osciot Ethiopia59,256
- 11537 Gununew Ethiopia53,312
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2025
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 Loutu are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2020 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 Loutu 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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