Kinshasa — UN urban centre
Kinshasa: 10,943,641 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #30 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 1854; territory: DR Congo (COD). 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: -4.3834, 15.3261. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 1,035,622 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 1,551,098 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 2,247,115 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 3,056,017 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 4,253,749 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 5,328,174 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 5,646,713 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 6,279,925 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 7,960,568 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 10,453,545 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 10,943,641 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 11,618,069 | Projection |
| 2035 | 12,044,432 | Projection |
| 2040 | 12,540,341 | Projection |
| 2045 | 12,837,866 | Projection |
| 2050 | 13,210,577 | Projection |
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