1. FertilityDR Congo

   DR Congo: fertility has been falling since 2013, from 6.53 to 6.05 children per woman

   Before 2013 it barely changed; since then it has fallen by about 0.05 a year. Latest data: 2023.

   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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