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Ngozi, 
Burundi
167,196 people lived in Ngozi in 2025. It is the 3613th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 3rd largest in Burundi.
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.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Ngozi grew
For every 10 people in Ngozi in 2000, there were 30.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 343,991 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 2000, 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
Ngozi through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Ngozi in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Burundi · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 12 cities in Burundi in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Bujumbura. The ringed dot in colour is Ngozi; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Ngozi covered 22 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 3.3 km² of it. That is 20 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 2000, its built-up land has grown by 94%, and its people are 3 times as many.
How to read this: each pale square is the city's whole area, the strong square inside it the part that is built on; one scale for all three, so a bigger square is more land. Hatched is the UN's projection.
Of every 100 people in Burundi
Its share of Burundi
Of every 100 people in Burundi in 2025, 1 lived in Ngozi, which is 167,196 people.
How to read this: 100 squares stand for everyone in Burundi, one square for every 100th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Ngozi's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 3588 Faya-Largeau Chad168,302
- 3593 Mukubu Democratic Republic of the Congo168,033
- 3607 Gao Mali167,417
- 3611 Ulipur Bangladesh167,347
- 3613 Ngozi167,196
- 3615 Berbera Somalia167,119
- 3622 Battagram Pakistan166,956
- 3628 Unguwar Arewa Nigeria166,817
- 3631 Zalmat Hubaysh Yemen166,653
In Burundi, 2025
How to read this: the figure in front of a name is where that city stands among the 12,138 cities the UN counted in 2025, and each bar is its people, on one scale per list. Numbers are missing where a city has fewer than 300,000 people and so has no page of its own.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Ngozi 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 Ngozi 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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