Population Statistics

North Kivu · Democratic Republic of the Congo

Beni population

140,731people · latest figure

By James Burfield, SEO consultant, Bath · Page updated · GeoNames · World Gazetteer 2005

Beni has a population of 140,731, making it the 31st largest place we list in Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is in North Kivu.

Beni holds 0.12% of Democratic Republic of the Congo's 116,452,162 people. Kinshasa, the largest place we list there, is 114 times its size. Twenty years earlier the World Gazetteer recorded 89,648, a rise of 57%.

140,731
population
89,648
in 2005
+57.0%
since 2005
The 2005 figure comes from the World Gazetteer archive restored on this site. The two sources may draw the settlement's boundary differently, so treat the change as indicative rather than exact. Why figures differ.

Nearby in size

PlaceRegionPopulation
KalemieTanganyika160,961
BumbaMongala154,586
Mbanza-NgunguBas-Congo142,773
MoandaBas-Congo128,804
LisalaMongala117,464
IleboKasai117,245

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Figures are the latest available in GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), which draws on national censuses of varying dates — treat them as recent, not same-year. Country totals are UN World Population Prospects 2024 (medium variant) where the UN lists the country separately; the handful it reports under a parent state keep a GeoNames figure and are marked as such. Sources & method.