Musumba, Democratic Republic of the Congo

For every 10 people in Musumba in 2005, there were 31.1 in 2025.

On the UN's projection it will have 322,433 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2035 and 2040. The UN first counts it as a city in 2005, when it passed 50,000 people.

projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low

How to read this: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.

How to read this: Musumba is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2025, 223 in all, led by Kinshasa, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.

In 2025, Musumba covered 13 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 2.5 km² of it. That is 16 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 2005, its built-up land has grown by 47%, and its people are 3.1 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 1,000 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2025, 1 lived in Musumba, which is 158,159 people.

How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Musumba's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.

In the world, 2025

1. 3800 Ash Shajarah Yemen159,506
2. 3815 San José del Cabo Mexico158,693
3. 3817 Ambatolahy II Madagascar158,588
4. 3823 Shufune Ethiopia158,225
5. 3825 Musumba158,159
6. 3846 ad-Damer Sudan157,497
7. 3864 Debre Birhan Ethiopia156,788
8. 3870 Kafr Saqr Egypt156,498
9. 3871 Shahabad India156,497

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2025

1. 3418 Lwambo176,648
2. 3459 Kitenge174,943
3. 3593 Mukubu168,033
4. 3659 Sandoa165,522
5. 3825 Musumba158,159
6. 4052 Tshimbulu149,595
7. 4117 Mukanga147,526
8. 4439 Lwebo137,354
9. 4501 Luiza135,439

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.

Democratic Republic of the Congo · All the world's cities

The figures for Musumba are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2005 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 Musumba 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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