1. ForecastsDR Congo

   DR Congo: 10 of 11 UN projections since 1998 expected fewer births

   The UN's 1998 projection expected 3.12M births a year on average for 2015–2020; the outcome was 3.79M (+21%). The latest checked one: the UN's 2022 projection expected 4.24M births for 2023; the outcome was 4.37M (+3%). "Outcome" here is the UN's own current estimate, not registration data.

   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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