- Capital: Kinshasa
- POPULATION: 62.661 Million
- LANGUAGES: French(official)
- Median age: 16
- Birth Rate per 1000 people: 43.69
- Death Rate per 1000 people: 13.27
- Life expectancy: 51.46
- Literacy(definition: age 15 and over can read and write)
  total population: 65.5%
  male: 76.2%
  female: 55.1% (2003 est.)
- Independence: 30 June 1960 from Belgium
- GDP per capita: $800

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