DR CongoandCongo

30 June 1960 · 15 August 1960

Two sourced records set beside each other — the figures each nation publishes, and the events each chronicle records of the other. Compared, never graded.

DR Congo

30 June 1960 — Independence of the Congo from Belgian sovereignty

Dossier →Chronicle →

Congo

15 August 1960 — Independence from French Equatorial Africa

Dossier →Chronicle →

Shared indicators
43
Domains
9
Crossed events
2
Data through
2026-08-22

The figures, side by side

Each figure is the same observation, with the same source, as on the two dossiers. Every value shows the year it was observed — vintages differ by indicator and nation. A “—” is an absence in the source data, never a zero. Metric names link to the world ranking; values open the figure on its own dossier.

Economy

CODCOG
  • GDP
    $91 B2025$16 B2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • GDP per capita
    $8072025$2,5152025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • GDP growth
    5.8%20253.1%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Inflation
    2.9%20162.4%2025
    Observed 2016 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Trade openness
    87.3%202591.7%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded

Society

CODCOG
  • Population
    113 m20256.5 m2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Life expectancy
    62.1 yrs202466.0 yrs2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Urban population
    45.1%202564.1%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Fertility rate
    6.020244.12024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Governance

CODCOG

Health

CODCOG
  • Health spending
    3.7%20233.3%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Physicians
    0.2120220.172022
    Observed 2022 / 2022 · figures compared, never graded
  • Under-5 mortality
    89.7202439.12024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Measles immunisation
    55.0%202472.0%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Safe drinking water
    11.9%202445.9%2021
    Observed 2024 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded

Education

CODCOG
  • Adult literacy
    68.5%202376.1%2005
    Observed 2023 / 2005 · figures compared, never graded
  • Education spending
    2.8%20223.3%2023
    Observed 2022 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Primary enrolment
    117.6%202387.9%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Secondary enrolment
    55.5%202350.5%2012
    Observed 2023 / 2012 · figures compared, never graded
  • Tertiary enrolment
    6.4%202010.4%2023
    Observed 2020 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded

Technology

CODCOG
  • R&D spending
    0.4%20150.4%2022
    Observed 2015 / 2022 · figures compared, never graded
  • Researchers (per million)
    1020151272022
    Observed 2015 / 2022 · figures compared, never graded
  • Internet users
    19.7%202447.3%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Mobile subscriptions
    592024962024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • High-tech exports
    0.2%20233.2%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded

Geography

CODCOG
  • Land area
    2,267,050 km²2023341,500 km²2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Forest area
    54.2%202364.1%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Agricultural land
    15.5%202331.2%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • CO₂ per capita (t)
    0.120241.32024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Renewable energy
    96.3%202171.4%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded

Resources

CODCOG
  • Resource rents
    38.8%202137.7%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Oil rents
    0.6%202134.4%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Mineral rents
    28.8%20210.0%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Forest rents
    9.4%20213.0%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Electricity access
    22.5%202453.0%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Copper (mined)
    3.2 Mt2025—
    Observed 2025 / — · figures compared, never graded
  • Cobalt (mined)
    230 kt2025—
    Observed 2025 / — · figures compared, never graded

Military

CODCOG
  • Military burden
    1.2%20241.2%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Defense spending
    $899 M2024$182 M2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Armed forces
    134,000202012,0002020
    Observed 2020 / 2020 · figures compared, never graded

Entangled histories

2 events in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

  1. 1884–1885

    Berlin Conference divides the two Congos

    The Berlin Conference recognised French claims north of the Congo River and assigned the south bank to Leopold II's Congo Free State, fixing the lasting division between the Republic of the Congo and the future Democratic Republic.

    Colonisation · from the Congo chronicle · Brazza, Brazzaville, and the colony of Middle Congo · REFS 2 — Republic of the Congo, History of the Republic of the Congo

  2. May 1997

    Mobutu falls; Kabila takes power

    Mobutu flees into exile and dies months later; Kabila seizes Kinshasa and restores the name Democratic Republic of the Congo.

    Politics & Power · from the DR Congo chronicle · Mobutu's Zaire · REFS 3 — Kabila, Laurent-Désiré (1939–2001), Mobutu Sese Seko, president of Zaire, Mobutu Sese Seko