
Congo, Dem. Rep.
General information
Capital: Kinshasa
Currency unit: Congolese franc
Official language: French
Area: 2,344,860 km²
Population in million: 81.3
GDP per capita (current US dollars): 458
GDP per capita, PPP (current international $): 887
Demography
Labor force participation rate (% of total population ages 15+): 72.4
Annual growth rate of the population: 3.3 %
Mortality rate, infant (per 1,000 live births): 70.0 %
Life expectancy at birth: 59.6 ans
Youth literacy rate Literacy rate, youth total (% of people ages 15-24): 77 %
Production
Gross domestic product (GDP) in billions of US dollars: 37.24
Agriculture value added of GDP: 19.9
Industry value added of GDP: 41.6
Services value added of GDP: 34.1
Trade
Total exports in billions of US dollars: 4.52
Total imports in billions of US dollars: 4.28
Major manufactured products (as % of total exports) :
Diamonds (3.73 %)
Cobalt oxides and hydroxides (2.67 %)
Antiques of an age exceeding one hundred years. (0.08 %)
Carbonates (0.06 %)
Enzymes (0.06 %)
Weight of major primary products excluding minerals and oil (as % of total exports) :
Wood in the rough (1.36 %)
Wood sawn (0.76 %)
Coffee (0.27 %)
Unmanufactured tobacco (0.20 %)
Plants and parts of plants (0.14 %)