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Historical population of the DR Congo. The CIA World Factbook estimated the population to be over 105 million as of 2022 (the exact number being 108,407,721), now exceeding that of Vietnam (with 98,721,275 inhabitants as of 2020) and ascending the country to the rank of 14th most populous in the world. [2]
Kongo; Lëtzebuergesch ... and one of the major ethnic groups in the other two countries they are found in. [7] In 1975, the Kongo population was reported as ...
Democratic Republic of the Congo's population between 1960 and 2017. The CIA World Factbook estimated the population to be over 115 million as of 2024. [219] Between 1950 and 2000, the country's population nearly quadrupled from 12.2 million to 46.9 million. [220]
Name Population (2010 est.) [1] Coordinates [1] Province Former name Aba: Orientale: Aketi: 40,507: Orientale: Ango: 8,381: Orientale: Aru: 29,801: Orientale ...
The Kongo are the largest ethnic group and form roughly half of the population. The most significant subgroups of the Kongo are Laari, in Brazzaville and Pool regions, and the Vili, around Pointe-Noire and along the Atlantic coast. The second largest group is the Teke, who live to the north of Brazzaville, with 16.9% of the population.
[30] [31] Kongo's tradition of forcibly transferring peoples captured in wars to the royal capital was key to the power of the Kongolese king, and it was the same mechanism of enslavement and transfer of population that made Kongo an efficient exporter of slaves. Kongolese laws and cultural traditions protected freeborn Kongolese from ...
The United Nations has reported mass violations including summary executions, gang rape and sexual slavery in the wake of a major M23 advance in late January that lead to the capture of east ...
This is the list of countries and other inhabited territories of the world by total population, based on estimates published by the United Nations in the 2024 revision of World Population Prospects. It presents population estimates from 1950 to the present.