Congo
- Capital
- Brazzaville
- Population
- 5.0 m
- Area
- 342,000 km²
- Region
- Middle Africa
- Languages
- French, Kikongo, Lingala
- Currency
- Central African CFA franc (Fr)
- Demonym
- Congolese
- UN member
- Yes
Gross Domestic Product — the total market value of all goods and services produced in a year, at current prices.
GDP divided by population — a rough measure of average economic output per person.
Years a newborn would live if current mortality patterns held throughout its life.
Gross expenditure on research & development as a share of GDP.
Full-time-equivalent researchers per million people.
Total natural-resource rents (oil, gas, mineral, forest) as a share of GDP.
From the Bantu peoples and the coastal Kingdom of Loango, through the Atlantic slave trade, Brazza's founding of Brazzaville and the colony of Middle Congo within French Equatorial Africa, to independence in 1960, the Marxist People's Republic, and the long rule of Denis Sassou Nguesso.
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