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Luau, 
Angola
172,177 people lived in Luau in 2025. It is the 3525th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 21st largest in Angola.
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 Luau's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Luau grew
For every 10 people in Luau in 2010, there were 31.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 386,039 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 2010, 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
Luau through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Luau in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Angola · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Angola and its 57 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Luanda). Luau 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, Luau covered 21 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 4.6 km² of it. That is 27 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 2010, its built-up land has grown to 2.3 times its size, and its people are 3.2 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 100 people in Angola
Its share of Angola
Of every 1,000 people in Angola in 2025, 4 lived in Luau, which is 172,177 people.
How to read this: shrink Angola to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Luau; 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
- 3459 Kitenge Democratic Republic of the Congo174,943
- 3485 Bukoba Tanzania173,889
- 3495 Ebolowa Cameroon173,565
- 3513 Gujar Khan Pakistan172,682
- 3525 Luau172,177
- 3528 Anlong Veng Cambodia172,053
- 3531 Zhanaozen Kazakhstan171,827
- 3538 Beanibazar Bangladesh171,417
- 3543 Amparihimahitsy Madagascar170,981
In Angola, 2025
- 1917 Menongue299,802
- 1977 Matala294,087
- 2252 Dundo259,341
- 3224 Cafunfo187,253
- 3525 Luau172,177
- 3696 Cazombo163,870
- 3741 N'dalatando161,700
- 4307 Lucapa141,466
- 7734 Caxito80,602
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 Luau are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2010 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 Luau 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