Pointe-Noire — UN urban centre
Pointe-Noire: 1,662,537 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #294 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 76; territory: Republic of the Congo (COG). 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: -4.7858, 11.8919. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 84,279 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 200,650 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 292,245 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 360,290 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 447,284 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 554,717 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 682,322 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 900,584 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 1,108,471 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,464,585 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,662,537 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 1,878,084 | Projection |
| 2035 | 2,099,215 | Projection |
| 2040 | 2,350,150 | Projection |
| 2045 | 2,591,591 | Projection |
| 2050 | 2,846,263 | Projection |
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