Congo
65 figures for Congo, each the latest the source has. Pick one to see how Congo compares.
Economy
- GDP per person $2,515 (2025)
- GDP per person, price-adjusted $7,248 (2025)
- Economic growth +3.1% (2025)
- Unemployment 19.9% (2025)
- Inflation +3.1% (2024)
- Exports 52.8% (2024)
- Income per person $5,902 (2023)
- Household wealth 53.8 (2018)
- Poorer households 38.6% (2018)
- Wealth inequality 0.26 (2018)
- Women in paid work 80.0% (2014)
People
- Population 6.18 million (2023)
- Population growth +2.36% (2025)
- Births per woman 4.11 (2024)
- Typical age 18.3 (2023)
- Living in cities 64.1% (2025)
- Human Development Index 0.649 (2023)
- Women’s vs men’s development 0.924 (2023)
- People per household 4.2 (2019)
- People over 65 3.7% (2018)
- Children under 15 40.5% (2018)
- Women’s age at first marriage 21.1 (2018)
- Mothers’ age at first birth 19.6 (2018)
Health
- Life expectancy 65.8 (2023)
- Child deaths (under 5) 39.1 (2024)
- Mothers dying in childbirth 241 (2023)
- Health spending per person $76 (2023)
- Measles vaccination 72% (2024)
- Overweight adults 24.2% (2022)
- Stunted children 19.7% (2018)
- Overweight children 8.2% (2018)
- Homes with piped water 38.9% (2018)
- Homes with a flush toilet 15.0% (2018)
Education
- Years of schooling 8.3 (2023)
- Expected years in school 12.7 (2023)
- Secondary school enrollment 50.5% (2012)
- Education spending 2.7% (2022)
- Teens in school 88.2% (2018)
Environment
- CO₂ per person 1.4 (2024)
- Total CO₂ emissions 8.84 million (2024)
- Forest cover 64.1% (2023)
- Air pollution (PM2.5) 40.3 (2024)
- Renewable energy share 71.4% (2021)
- Average temperature 25.0 (2022)
Energy
- Energy use per person 576 (2023)
- Access to electricity 53.0% (2024)
- Renewable electricity 20.9% (2024)
- Nuclear electricity 0.0% (2024)
- Coal electricity 0.0% (2024)
- Cooking with wood or dung 50.8% (2018)
Technology
- Internet users 47.3% (2024)
- Mobile phone subscriptions 93.6 (2022)
- Home broadband 0.4 (2022)
- Homes with internet 37.1% (2019)
- Homes with a mobile phone 94.3% (2018)
Food and farming
- Hunger 26.4% (2023)
- Cereal yield 878 (2023)
- Farmland 31.2% (2023)
- Jobs in farming 36.4% (2025)
Government
- Electoral democracy 0.24 (2025)
- Human rights 0.33 (2025)
- Control of corruption −1.42 (2025)
- Women in parliament 14.6% (2025)
- Military spending 1.2% (2024)
- Clean government 39.7 (2022)