{"id":249738,"date":"2026-11-11T02:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T00:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-luanda-to-replace-lagos-as-ssas-most-populous-city-by-2050-w-bank\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T02:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T00:30:09","slug":"angola-luanda-to-replace-lagos-as-ssas-most-populous-city-by-2050-w-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-luanda-to-replace-lagos-as-ssas-most-populous-city-by-2050-w-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: Luanda to Replace Lagos As SSA&#8217;s Most Populous City By 2050 &#8211; W\/Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Angola&#8217;s capital, Luanda, is projected to overtake Lagos as Sub-Saharan Africa&#8217;s most populous city by 2050, with its population expected to increase by 78 per cent, according to the World Bank.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">The report estimates that Luanda&#8217;s population will rise from 11.4 million in 2025 to 20.3 million in 2050, while Lagos is projected to grow from 12.8 million to 16.2 million over the same period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">The World Bank report showed that the projected growth would significantly reshape the ranking of the region&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611110014.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angola&#8217;s capital, Luanda, is projected to overtake Lagos as Sub-Saharan Africa&#8217;s most populous city by 2050, with its population expected to increase by 78 per cent, according to the World Bank. The report estimates that Luanda&#8217;s population will rise from 11.4 million in 2025 to 20.3 million in 2050, while Lagos is projected to grow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":249739,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4262],"tags":[258,256,3941,4263,6603,2477,3938,257,37949,10486,254,55809,55810],"class_list":["post-249738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-city","tag-lagos","tag-luanda","tag-news","tag-populous","tag-replace","tag-south-africa-today","tag-ssas","tag-wbank"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}