Side by side
DR Congo and Congo compared
Two sourced records set beside each other — the figures each nation publishes, and the events each chronicle records of the other. Compared, never graded.
- Shared indicators
- 43
- Domains
- 9
- Crossed events
- 2
- Data through
- 2026-08-10
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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.
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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.
- 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 · Republic of the Congo, History of the Republic of the Congo
- 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 · Kabila, Laurent-Désiré (1939–2001), Mobutu Sese Seko, president of Zaire, Mobutu Sese Seko