Congo, Dem. Rep. CD
Sub-Saharan Africa · Low income · capital Kinshasa
- Population
- 112,832,473
- 2025
- GDP
- $91.0 billion
- 2025
- Life expectancy
- 62.1 y
- 2024
In the live services
| corpus | rows for this country |
|---|---|
| alerts | 2 |
Geospatial extent
Bounding box 12.21°–31.28° E, -13.46°–5.38° N · centroid -4.04, 21.75 · source natural-earth-1:110m
Map © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Extent only; no cadastre or address data.
Top research institutions
- University of Kinshasa — 10,439 works · ROR · site
- University of Lubumbashi — 3,907 works · ROR · site
- Université de Kisangani — 2,420 works · ROR · site
- Université Pédagogique Nationale — 1,467 works · ROR · site
- National Institute of Biomedical Research — 1,464 works · ROR · site
OpenAlex works counts; not a quality ranking.
Legal system
civil law system primarily based on Belgian law, but also customary and tribal law
CIA World Factbook (factbook.json)
Measured indicators
| indicator | value | year | source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Account ownership (% age 15+) | 39.2 | 2024 | World Bank |
| Agricultural land (% of land) | 16.2 | 2024 | World Bank |
| Air passengers carried | 1,150,169.7 | 2023 | World Bank |
| Arms imports (SIPRI TIV) | 44,000,000.0 | 2025 | World Bank |
| basic_water_pct | 35.7 | 2024 | World Bank |
| Battle-related deaths (UCDP) | 1,138.0 | 2024 | World Bank |
| Access to electricity (%) | 22.5 | 2024 | World Bank |
| Foreign direct investment (% of GDP) | 2.1 | 2025 | World Bank |
| fixed_broadband_per_100 | 0.0 | 2024 | World Bank |
| Forest area (% of land) | 61.5 | 2024 | World Bank |
| GDP per capita (current US$) | 806.8 | 2025 | World Bank |
| Current health expenditure (% of GDP) | 3.7 | 2023 | World Bank |
| Individuals using the internet (%) | 19.7 | 2024 | World Bank |
| military_expenditure_pct_gdp | 1.4 | 2025 | World Bank |
| Net migration | -27,309.0 | 2025 | World Bank |
| New limited-liability companies registered | 6,095.0 | 2024 | World Bank |
| Patent applications, non-residents | 110.0 | 2020 | World Bank |
| Patent applications, residents | 72.0 | 2020 | World Bank |
| primary_enrollment_pct | 117.6 | 2023 | World Bank |
| Prison population rate per 100,000 | 46.0 | 2022 | World Prison Brief / OWID |
| Personal remittances received (% of GDP) | 3.6 | 2025 | World Bank |
| Research institutions indexed (OpenAlex) | 89.0 | 2026-10-14 | OpenAlex |
| Scholarly works since 2021 (OpenAlex) | 15,502.0 | 2021– | OpenAlex |
| Safely managed drinking water (%) | 11.9 | 2024 | World Bank |
| secondary_enrollment_pct | 55.5 | 2023 | World Bank |
| Tertiary enrolment (% gross) | 6.4 | 2020 | World Bank |
| Trade (% of GDP) | 87.3 | 2025 | World Bank |
| Undernourishment (%) | 39.5 | 2024 | World Bank |
| Unemployment (% labour force) | 4.4 | 2025 | World Bank |
| Urban population (%) | 45.1 | 2025 | World Bank |
| who_homicide_rate | 12.4 | 2021 | WHO GHO |
Lane coverage
| lane | status | what exists |
|---|---|---|
| patents | YELLOW · partial | patent application counts (residents + non-residents) from the World Bank/WIPO series; patent documents are not ingested source |
| legal | YELLOW · partial | legal-system description (CIA World Factbook, public domain); no statutes, gazettes or case law ingested, and Factbook recency is not guaranteed source |
| alerts | GREEN · ingested | 2 alert row(s) in the current GDACS/USGS window source |
| defense | GREEN · ingested | military expenditure (% of GDP), SIPRI series via World Bank; not procurement, capabilities or intent source |
| space | YELLOW · partial | global launch feed is live; 0 launches from pads here in the current bounded window source |
| maps | YELLOW · partial | Natural Earth 1:10m public-domain boundary (extent + centroid); no cadastre, address data or navigation map source |
| passport | GLOBAL · service live | pass.go-v.org is live; per-country identity documents are NOT ingested source |
| research | GREEN · ingested | 15,502 scholarly works since 2021 with authoring institutions here (OpenAlex); a publication index, not a quality ranking source |
| economy | GREEN · ingested | GDP per capita, current US$ (World Bank); not a cost-of-living or inequality measure source |
| health | GREEN · ingested | life expectancy at birth, World Bank; not a health system performance rating source |
| education | YELLOW · partial | primary school enrolment (% gross), World Bank; tertiary data is shown when available source |
| energy | GREEN · ingested | access to electricity (% of population), World Bank source |
| water | YELLOW · partial | at least basic drinking water (% of population), World Bank/WHO; safely managed data shown when available source |
| connectivity | YELLOW · partial | fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 people, World Bank/ITU; internet-user share shown when available source |
| crime | YELLOW · partial | homicide rate 12.421 per 100,000 (WHO GHO, 2021); recorded homicides only source |
| conflict | YELLOW · partial | battle-related deaths (UCDP series via World Bank); one definition of armed conflict, not all violence source |
| business | YELLOW · partial | newly registered limited-liability companies (World Bank/IC.BUS.NREG); not a company register source |
| science | GREEN · ingested | 89 research institutions indexed by OpenAlex; an institutional index, not a lab-certification register source |
| prison | GREEN · ingested | prison population rate 46 per 100,000 (World Prison Brief via Our World in Data, 2022); not a prison conditions assessment source |
| interpol | GREY · source has no observation | Interpol public notices are not ingested: the public API returns 403 to this host and its terms do not grant bulk reuse source |
| arms | YELLOW · partial | SIPRI arms-transfer trend indicator values (imports and exports) via the World Bank; TIV is a trend measure, not currency source |
| sanctions | YELLOW · partial | UN Security Council consolidated list references this country 91 time(s) (nationality/address fields); not Interpol notices or convictions source |
| agriculture | GREEN · ingested | agricultural land (% of land area), World Bank/FAO source |
| food | YELLOW · partial | prevalence of undernourishment (%), World Bank/FAO; a modelled estimate, not a survey of every household source |
| labor | YELLOW · partial | unemployment (% of labour force), ILO modelled estimate via World Bank source |
| finance | YELLOW · partial | account ownership (% age 15+), World Bank Findex source |
| environment | GREEN · ingested | forest area (% of land area), World Bank/FAO source |
| trade | GREEN · ingested | trade (% of GDP), World Bank source |
| migration | YELLOW · partial | net migration (5-year estimate), World Bank/UN source |
| tourism | GREY · source has no observation | no tourist-arrivals observation for this economy source |
| housing | YELLOW · partial | urban population (% of total), World Bank; not a housing-cost or tenure measure source |
| transport | YELLOW · partial | air passengers carried, World Bank/ICAO; one mode only source |
| investment | GREEN · ingested | Foreign direct investment, net inflows (% of GDP) (World Bank, 2025) source |
| remittances | GREEN · ingested | Personal remittances received (% of GDP) (World Bank, 2025) source |
| health_finance | YELLOW · partial | Current health expenditure (% of GDP) (World Bank, 2023) source |
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Cite this page
Congo, Dem. Rep. (CD). go-v.org estate, https://estate.116.202.234.183.nip.io/cd. Data: World Bank Open Data, OpenAlex, WIPO, Natural Earth, OpenStreetMap. Accessed 2026-10-25.