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Congo, Dem. Rep.

112,832,473

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+3.56M2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+123.4%from 50.51M
Life expectancy62.1 years2024
Fertility rate5.98births per woman · 2024
Urban population45.1%2025
RegionSub-Saharan Africa Low income

A country at every age

How Congo, Dem. Rep. is shaped by age.

A younger population means schools, jobs, and future families will shape the decades ahead.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1445.9%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6451.0%Working-age population
Ages 65+3.1%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate40.9births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate8.4deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+32.5births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-27.31Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Congo, Dem. Rep. look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 218.25M in 2050—99.7% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 2024109.28M
  2. 2050218.25M
  3. 2100430.71M
Median age in 205020.0years
Births in 20506.28Mduring the year
Deaths in 20501.47Mduring the year
Life expectancy65.9years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 196015.26M
  2. 197020.14M
  3. 198026.71M
  4. 199036.68M
  5. 200050.51M
  6. 201068.56M
  7. 202095.99M
  8. 2025112.83M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/23/2026

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