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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]
Population of the Republic of the Congo, Data of FAO, 2005. According to the 2022 revision of the World Population Prospects [2] [3] the total population was 5,835,806 in 2021, compared to only 808 000 in 1950. The proportion of children below the age of 15 in 2010 was 40.6%, 55.7% was between 15 and 65 years of age, while 3.7% was 65 years or ...
The Congo River is the world's deepest river and the world's third-largest river by discharge. The Comité d'études du haut Congo ("Committee for the Study of the Upper Congo"), established by King Leopold II of Belgium in 1876, and the International Association of the Congo, established by him in 1879, were also named after the river. [22]
BBC, Country profile: Democratic Republic of Congo; BBC, DR Congo: Key facts; BBC, Q&A: DR Congo conflict; Timeline: Democratic Republic of Congo; BBC, In pictures: Congo crisis; Kivu Security Tracker – data on armed groups and casualty figures Archived 21 May 2022 at the Wayback Machine
On 30 April 1891 this was renamed Colony of French Congo, consisting of Gabon and Middle Congo, the name the French gave to Congo-Brazzaville at that time. On 15 January 1910 the colony again was renamed to French Equatorial Africa (Afrique Equatoriale Française or AEF), this time it also included Chad and Oubangui-Chari , nowadays the Central ...
Zaire, [c] officially the Republic of Zaire, [d] was the name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1971 to 18 May 1997. Located in Central Africa, it was, by area, the third-largest country in Africa after Sudan and Algeria, and the 11th-largest country in the world from 1965 to 1997.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Kinshasa, ... Population: 2,008,352. ... History of the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Timeline and ...
"Democratic Republic of the Congo". Political Chronology of Africa. Political Chronologies of the World. Europa Publications. 2001. pp. 100– 113. ISBN 0203409957. Didier Gondola (2002). "Timeline of Historical Events". History of Congo. Greenwood. ISBN 978-0-313-31696-8. Andreas Mehler; et al., eds. (2007). "Democratic Republic of the Congo".