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Key facts
- Currency: Central African CFA franc
- Capital city: Brazzaville
- Region: Middle Africa
- Continent: Africa
- Land area: 341,500 km²
- Population: 5,970,424
- Political Leader: Denis Sassou Nguesso (President)
Latest news (see all)
The U.N. rights chief says eastern Congo's escalating violence is being forgotten by the world
Read: The Washington Times
2024-04-17
The U.N. rights chief says eastern Congo's escalating violence is being forgotten by the world
Read: Independent
2024-04-17
The U.N. rights chief says eastern Congo's escalating violence is being forgotten by the world
Read: ABC News
2024-04-17
The U.N. rights chief says eastern Congo's escalating violence is being forgotten by the world
Read: The Star
2024-04-17
Metrics
General information
Business
| Central government debt | 25.48 % of GDP |
| Expense | 17.80 % of GDP |
| GDP | 15,817,000,000.00 current US$ |
| Inflation | 3.04 annual % |
| Self-employed | 75.77 % of total employment |
| Tax revenue | 8.32 % of GDP |
| Unemployment | 19.86 % of total labor force |
| Vulnerable employment | 74.54 % of total employment |
Environment
| Agricultural land | 106,780.00 km² |
| Alternative and nuclear energy | 1.43 % of total energy use |
| Carbon Dioxide Emissions (CO2) | 7,153.90 kt |
| Electricity production from coal sources | 0.00 % of total |
| Electricity production from natural gas sources | 46.66 % of total |
| Electricity production from hydroelectric sources | 53.34 % of total |
| Electricity production from nuclear sources | 0.00 % of total |
| Electricity production from oil sources | 0.00 % of total |
| Electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric | 0.00 % of total |
| Net energy imports | -496.60 % of energy use |
| Fertility rate | 4.17 births per woman |
| Forest area | 219,310 km² |
| Fossil fuel energy consumption | 40.48 % of total |
| Other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6 | -1,372.30 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent |
| Median age | 14.30 years |
| Methane emissions | 9,957.26 kt of CO2 equivalent |
| Nitrous oxide emissions | 1,610.02 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent |
| Female Population | 2,988,624 |
| Male Population | 2,981,800 |
| Renewable energy consumption | 71.88 % of total final energy consumption |
| Rural land area | 340,341.00 km² |
| Rural population | 1,866,593 |
| Urban land area | 420.26 km² |
| Urban population | 4,103,831 |
| Urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters | 0.71 % of total population |
Health
| Birth rate | 30.69 per 1,000 people |
| Death rate | 7.06 per 1,000 people |
| Health expenditure per capita | 80.81 current US$ |
| Health expenditure | 4.47 % of GDP |
| Incidence of HIV | 2.39 per 1,000 uninfected population |
| Hospital beds | 1.60 per 1,000 people |
| Life expectancy at birth | 64 years |
| Suicide mortality rate | 6.50 per 100,000 population |
Other
| Access to electricity | 49.66 % of population |
| Internally displaced persons, by conflict and violence | 27,000 |
| Individuals using the Internet | 8.65 % of population |
| Net migration | -1,000 |
| Press freedom | 2.17 |
Politics
| Armed forces personnel | 12,000 |
| Democracy score | 3.31 |
| Democracy type | Authoritarian |
| Military expenditure | 1.85 % of GDP |
| Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments | 14.57 % |
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Source
SIPRI, World Bank, Reporters Without Borders
Updated: 1 day ago
