million (1996 est.)
Agriculture - products:
coffee, sugar, palm oil, rubber, tea, quinine, cassava (tapioca),
palm oil, bananas, root crops, corn, fruits; wood products
Industries:
mining (diamonds, copper, zinc), mineral processing, consumer
products (including textiles, footwear, cigarettes, processed foods
and beverages), cement, commercial ship repair
Industrial production growth rate:
NA
Electricity - production:
6.086 billion kWh (2002)
Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 1.8% hydro: 98.2% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (2001)
Electricity - consumption:
4.168 billion kWh (2002)
Electricity - exports:
1.5 billion kWh (2002)
Electricity - imports:
8 million kWh (2002)
Oil - production:
24,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)
Oil - consumption:
14,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)
Oil - exports:
NA
Oil - imports:
NA
Oil - proved reserves:
1.538 billion bbl (1 January 2002)
Natural gas - proved reserves:
104.8 billion cu m (1 January 2002)
Exports:
$1.417 billion f.o.b. (2002 est.)
Exports - commodities:
diamonds, copper, crude oil, coffee, cobalt
Exports - partners:
Belgium 47.8%, Finland 21%, US 10.9%, China 7.6% (2004)
Imports:
$933 million f.o.b. (2002 est.)
Imports - commodities:
foodstuffs, mining and other machinery, transport equipment, fuels
Imports - partners:
South Africa 18.5%, Belgium 15.5%, France 10.8%, Kenya 6.3%, US 6%,
Germany 5.8% (2004)
Debt - external:
$11.6 billion (2000 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:
$195.3 million (1995)
Currency (code):
Congolese franc (CDF)
Currency code:
CDF
Exchange rates:
Congolese francs per US dollar - 401.04 (2004), 405.34 (2003),
346.49 (2002), 206.62 (2001), 21.82 (2000)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Communications Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Telephones - main lines in use:
10,000 (2002)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
1 million (2003)
Telephone system:
general assessment: poor
domestic: barely adequate wire and microwave radio relay service in
and between urban areas; domestic satellite system with 14 earth
stations
international: country code - 243; satellite earth station - 1
Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 3, FM 11, shortwave 2 (2001)
Radios:
18.03 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations:
4 (2001)
Televisions:
6.478 million (1997)
Internet country code:
.cd
Internet hosts:
153 (2003)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
1 (2001)
Internet users:
50,000 (2002)
Transportation Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Railways:
total: 5,138 km
narrow gauge: 3,987 km 1.067-m gauge (858 km electrified); 125 km
1.000-m gauge; 1,026 km 0.600-m gauge (2004)
Highways:
total: 157,000 km (including 30 km of expressways)
paved: NA km
unpaved: NA km (1999 est.)
Waterways:
15,000 km (navigation on the Congo curtailed by fighting) (2004)
Pipelines:
gas 54 km; oil 71 km (2004)
Ports and harbors:
Banana, Boma, Bukavu, Bumba, Goma, Kalemie, Kindu, Kinshasa,
Kisangani, Matadi, Mbandaka
Merchant marine:
registered in other countries: 1
Airports:
230 (2004 est.)
Airports - with paved runways: total: 24 over 3,047 m: 4 2,438 to 3,047 m: 2 1,524 to 2,437 m: 16 914 to 1,523 m: 2 (2004 est.)
Airports - with unpaved runways: total: 206 1,524 to 2,437 m: 17 914 to 1,523 m: 92 under 914 m: 97 (2004 est.)
Military Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Military branches:
Army, Navy, Air Force
Manpower available for military service:
males age 18–49: 11,052,696 (2005 est.)
Manpower fit for military service:
males age 18–49: 5,851,292 (2005 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$93.5 million (2004)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
1.5% (2004)
Transnational Issues Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Disputes - international:
heads of the Great Lakes states and UN pledge to end conflict but
unchecked tribal, rebel, and militia fighting continues unabated in
the northeastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo,
drawing in the neighboring states of Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda; the
UN Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
(MONUC) has maintained over 14,000 peacekeepers in the region since
1999; thousands of Ituri refugees from the Congo continue to flee
the fighting primarily into Uganda; 90,000 Angolan refugees were