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DR Congo

The DR Congo's best placing is 7th of 194 for forest.

Best placing: #7Forest
Top 10 placings: 1 / 17
Population: 112.8 million
Land area: 2.3 million km²

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Best placings first. The bar shows how far up the ranking the DR Congo is.

Forest

#7 of 194

1,228,511 km² of forest

1st in Africa · World Bank · 2023

Land area

#11 of 194

2,267,050 km² of land

2nd in Africa · World Bank · 2023

Population

#15 of 195

112,832,473 people

4th in Africa · World Bank · 2025

Airports

#25 of 193

273 airports

3rd in Africa · Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2025

Forest per person

#38 of 194

0.0109 km² of forest per person

World Bank · 2023

Forest by area

#38 of 194

54.2 % of land area covered by forest

World Bank · 2023

Rainfall

#54 of 179

1,543 mm of precipitation per year

12th in Africa · World Bank · 2022

Land area per person

#59 of 194

0.020 km² of land per person

World Bank · 2023

Railways

#47 of 135

4,007 km of railway

7th in Africa · Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2014

GDP

#78 of 182

91,030,531,317 US$ (current prices)

11th in Africa · World Bank · 2025

Airports per person

#134 of 192

2.42 airports per million people

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2025

Population by area

#136 of 194

49.77 people per km²

World Bank · 2025

Airports by area

#149 of 191

1.20 airports per 10,000 km²

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2025

Railways per person

#113 of 134

35.51 km of railway per million people

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2014

Railways by area

#117 of 133

1.77 km of railway per 1,000 km²

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2014

GDP per person

#175 of 182

807 GDP per person (US$)

World Bank · 2025

Coastline

#146 of 151

37 km of coastline

38th in Africa · Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

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