DR Congo in 5 numbers: people, income, life expectancy

DR Congo is home to 112,832,473 people, according to the World Bank's figure for 2025. That makes it the 15th most populous of the 217 countries in the World Bank's data, out of about 8.22 billion people worldwide. This clip looks at DR Congo through five World Bank indicators, each ranked against every country that reported a figure for the same year.

The country's land covers 2,267,050 square kilometres, the figure for 2024. The World Bank counts land only, leaving out lakes and rivers, and ranks DR Congo 11th of 214 countries. The world's land adds up to 129,763,686 square kilometres. Its land ranks higher than its people, 11th against 15th.

Income per person, measured as gross domestic product per person in current US dollars, was 807 dollars in 2025. That places DR Congo 179th of the 186 countries with a 2025 figure, against a world figure of 14,406 dollars. DR Congo's figure is far below the world figure. GDP per person is an average. It divides the whole economy by the whole population and says nothing about how income is shared.

Life expectancy at birth was 62.1 years in 2024: how long a newborn would live if the death rates of that year held for its whole life. The world figure is 73.5 years, so DR Congo is below it and ranks 204th of 217 countries. The clip ends on the population figure, the first number it showed.

The internet figure counts people who used the internet in the last three months. In DR Congo that was 19.7 percent in 2024, against a world figure of 71.2 percent, which puts the country 172nd of the 182 countries with data for that year. A country can sit near the top of one list and far down another, which is why the clip shows five numbers rather than one.

How we counted: each figure is from the latest year enough countries have reported to rank DR Congo against all of them, read from the World Bank's open data API in November 2026. Each rank counts only the countries that reported a value for that same year, which is why the totals differ from one number to the next. The population, income and life expectancy figures are estimates that the World Bank compiles from national and international agencies, not a head count. All data: World Bank, World Development Indicators, licensed CC BY 4.0.