DR Congo (CD) is covered on EconEarth’s interactive globe with economy, market, and country data drawn from the same dataset used in the live app.
A vast country whose cobalt, copper and coltan are essential to the world's batteries and electronics. Kinshasa and the mines are almost different economies. Governance, conflict in the east and almost no infrastructure are why the resource wealth has not become national income.
Region: Africa. Population: 102M (rank #15). GDP: $60.0 billion. GDP per capita: $1,122 (2026, IMF). GDP growth: +8.4%. Inflation: +18.6%. Policy rate: 7.5%. Currency: CDF. Equity market cap: $1.0 billion.