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Luena, 
Angola
714,289 people lived in Luena in 2025. It is the 752nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 5th largest in Angola.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Luena 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 Luena grew
Where Luena had 10 people in 2000, it had 116.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.5 million people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes a million people between 2030 and 2035. 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
Luena through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Luena 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). Luena 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, Luena covered 83 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 20 km² of it. That is 28 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 2000, its built-up land has grown to 3 times its size, and its people are 11.7 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, 2 lived in Luena, which is 714,289 people.
How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person in Angola; the coloured squares live in Luena. 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
- 748 Haridwar India717,990
- 749 Makhachkala Russia717,618
- 750 Iloilo City Philippines717,038
- 751 Jepara Indonesia714,514
- 752 Luena714,289
- 753 Zaria Nigeria712,688
- 754 Bi'r Rubak Yemen712,438
- 755 Xiaogan China711,726
- 756 Mirzapur India710,567
In Angola, 2025
- 28 Luanda11,370,127
- 400 Lubango1,280,986
- 440 Cabinda1,157,345
- 532 Malanje973,086
- 752 Luena714,289
- 781 Cuito689,795
- 853 Huambo634,669
- 926 Benguela589,289
- 1077 Lobito516,153
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 Luena 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 Luena 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