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Congo, Rep.

6,484,437

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+151.48K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+105.8%from 3.15M
Life expectancy66.0 years2024
Fertility rate4.11births per woman · 2024
Urban population64.1%2025
RegionSub-Saharan Africa Lower middle income

A country at every age

How Congo, 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 0–1439.9%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6457.0%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 rate30.4births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate6.2deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+24.2births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-3Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Congo, Rep. look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 11.01M in 2050—73.8% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 20246.33M
  2. 205011.01M
  3. 210020.03M
Median age in 205023.1years
Births in 2050262.64Kduring the year
Deaths in 205068.12Kduring the year
Life expectancy70.5years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

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

  1. 19601.06M
  2. 19701.4M
  3. 19801.83M
  4. 19902.38M
  5. 20003.15M
  6. 20104.46M
  7. 20205.75M
  8. 20256.48M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/18/2026

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