1. ForecastsDR Congo

   DR Congo: births are already as high as the UN expected only only after 2035

   2023: 4.37M. The UN's 2015 projection expected about 3.75M for 2023; only only after 2035 did it rise to this level, at least 12 years later.

   Source: UN World Population Prospects 1998–2024; national statisticsOpen on the chart →

More findings

• DR Congo: more babies born than in the US
• DR Congo now has more people than Germany
• DR Congo: more babies are born than in the whole EU
• DR Congo: 2.1M natives live abroad, 1.9 times as many as the foreign-born living there
• DR Congo: all its electricity is made without coal, gas or oil, but there is 14 times less of it per person than in a typical country
• DR Congo: the economy “grew” 62% in six months, retroactively

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