Population Statistics

Maniema · Democratic Republic of the Congo

Kindu population

234,651people · latest figure

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

Kindu has a population of 234,651, making it the 20th largest place we list in Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is in Maniema.

Kindu holds 0.20% of Democratic Republic of the Congo's 116,452,162 people. Kinshasa, the largest place we list there, is 68 times its size. Twenty years earlier the World Gazetteer recorded 135,698, a rise of 73%.

234,651
population
135,698
in 2005
+72.9%
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
MweneLualaba295,683
ButemboNorth Kivu286,242
IsiroHaut-Uele255,409
KabindaLomami219,396
GandajikaLomami208,051
Bandundu ProvinceKwilu202,904

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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.