Lubango — UN urban centre
Lubango: 1,280,986 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #400 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 1169; territory: Angola (AGO). UN source workbook.
Method: Degree of Urbanisation (contiguous 1 km2 cells, density 1,500+ people/km2, total 50,000+). This is a source-defined urban centre, not a municipality or province. No association with a separate administrative entity is inferred from proximity or name.
Source centroid: -14.9071, 13.5144. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 57,314 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 128,453 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 244,951 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 401,849 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 583,592 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 779,323 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,031,179 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,280,986 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 1,513,867 | Projection |
| 2035 | 1,745,775 | Projection |
| 2040 | 2,007,755 | Projection |
| 2045 | 2,251,530 | Projection |
| 2050 | 2,524,575 | Projection |
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