🇨🇬 Congo
Republic of the Congo
Every statistic we track for Congo — 131 indicators, each with its latest value and world rank. Open the interactive profile →
$6,712
65.4 yrs
4.46
0.12
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All indicators
📈 Economy
👥 Demographics
| Fertility Rate (WB) | 4.1 | #24/217 | 2024 |
| Gender Inequality Index | 0.6 | #22/172 | 2023 |
| Median Age | 18.7 | #211/235 | 2026 |
| Population | 4.3 | #126/229 | 2013 |
| Population | 6.7 | #104/191 | 2026 |
| Population Density | 19.4 | #204/235 | 2026 |
| Refugees by Country of Origin | 13,134 | #58/195 | 2025 |
| Urban Population | 63.9% | #107/213 | 2024 |
🌐 Connectivity
| Access to Electricity | 53% | #197/214 | 2024 |
| Get News from the Internet (Afrobarometer) | 39.2% | #20/39 | 2023 |
| Internet Users | 47.3% | #147/182 | 2024 |
| Mobile Subscriptions | 93.6 | #150/209 | 2022 |
| Read News Online | 19.6% | #65/75 | 2024 |
🫀 Health
🎓 Education
| Education Spending (QoG) | 3.3% | #66/112 | 2023 |
| Mean Years of Schooling | 6.7 | #116/146 | 2020 |
🌱 Environment
| CO₂ per Capita (WB) | 1.3 | #130/203 | 2024 |
| Energy Use per Person | 576 | #116/149 | 2023 |
| Environmental Performance Index | 41.6 | #116/179 | 2024 |
| Renewable Electricity | 20.9% | #117/195 | 2024 |
🏛️ Governance
📰 Media & news
| Press Freedom Index | 61.2 | #67/177 | 2026 |
🛡️ Safety
| Felt Unsafe in the Neighbourhood (Afrobarometer) | 62.4% | #8/39 | 2023 |
| Global Peace Index | 2.1 | #59/160 | 2025 |
| Homicide Rate | 5.8 | #78/204 | 2023 |
| Road Traffic Deaths | 8.4 | #135/195 | 2021 |
| Trust in the Police (Afrobarometer) | 42.8% | #23/39 | 2023 |
⚠️ Risk & resilience
| Climate Seen as a Threat | 73.4% | #127/142 | 2023 |
| Confident Can Protect Family | 52.4% | #48/142 | 2023 |
| Disaster Exposure (WRI) | 0.3 | #139/193 | 2026 |
| Experienced a Disaster | 27.8% | #64/142 | 2023 |
| Experienced Discrimination (Skin Colour) | 10.1% | #45/139 | 2023 |
| INFORM Risk Index | 5.8 | #30/191 | 2025 |
| Resilience to Risk (WRP) | 43.5 | #126/141 | 2023 |
| World Risk Index | 3.7 | #111/193 | 2026 |
| Worry About Violent Crime | 79.3% | #32/142 | 2023 |
😊 Wellbeing
| Happiness (Cantril Ladder) | 4.5 | #122/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Freedom | 0.8 | #118/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: GDP | 1.3 | #114/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Generosity | 0.1 | #104/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Healthy Life Expectancy | 0.4 | #121/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Low Corruption | 0.1 | #68/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Social Support | 0.6 | #141/147 | 2025 |
| Human Development Index | 0.6 | #138/193 | 2023 |
| Went Without a Cash Income (Afrobarometer) | 94.6% | #4/39 | 2023 |
| Went Without Enough Food (Afrobarometer) | 86.8% | #1/39 | 2023 |
🧭 Attitudes & values
| Believe Vaccines Are Effective | 91.5% | #23/143 | 2018 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Safe | 75.2% | #82/143 | 2018 |
| China’s Influence Seen as Positive (Afrobarometer) | 69.3% | #13/39 | 2023 |
| Country Going in the Right Direction (Afrobarometer) | 19.5% | #30/39 | 2023 |
| Trust in Fellow Citizens (Afrobarometer) | 72.4% | #6/39 | 2023 |
| Trust in Science | 50.1% | #134/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in Scientists | 33.1% | #140/143 | 2018 |
| US Influence Seen as Positive (Afrobarometer) | 51.8% | #33/39 | 2023 |
Latest available period per indicator. The rank counts down from the highest value, whatever that means for the series: on child mortality or extreme poverty the country at #1 is the worst in the world, not the best. Sources are credited on each indicator page.