The 2004 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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
Industrial production growth rate:
NA
Electricity - production:
5.243 billion kWh (2001)
Electricity - consumption:
3.839 billion kWh (2001)
Electricity - exports:
1.097 billion kWh (2001)
Electricity - imports:
60 million kWh (2001)
Oil - production:
24,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)
Oil - consumption:
14,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)
Oil - exports:
NA (2001)
Oil - imports:
NA (2001)
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 54.9%, US 15.4%, Zimbabwe 11.1%, Finland 4.8% (2003)
Imports:
$933 million f.o.b. (2002 est.)
Imports - commodities:
foodstuffs, mining and other machinery, transport equipment, fuels
Imports - partners:
South Africa 17%, Belgium 14.9%, France 12.6%, Germany 6.8%, Kenya
5.4%, Netherlands 4% (2003)
Debt - external:
$11.6 billion (2000 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:
$195.3 million (1995)
Currency:
Congolese franc (CDF)
Currency code:
CDF
Exchange rates:
Congolese francs per US dollar - NA (2003), 346.485 (2002), 206.617
(2001), 21.82 (2000), 4.02 (1999)
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 (2003)
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:
none
Airports:
230 (2003 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
Military manpower - availability:
males age 15–49: 12,706,971 (2004 est.)
Military manpower - fit for military service:
males age 15–49: 6,480,645 (2004 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$115.5 million (2003)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
1.4% (2003)
Transnational Issues Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Disputes - international:
Democratic Republic of the Congo is in the grip of a civil war,
tribal conflict, and rebel gang fighting that has drawn in
neighboring states of Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda; in the Great Lakes
region and Sudan, heads of the Great Lakes states and UN pledge to
end conflict, but unchecked localized violence continues unabated;
the location of the boundary in the broad Congo River with the
Republic of the Congo is indefinite except in the Pool
Malebo/Stanley Pool area
Refugees and internally displaced persons:
refugees (country of origin): 45,060 (Sudan), 123,714 (Angola),
19,552 (Burundi), 6,626 (Republic of Congo), 19,743 (Rwanda), 18,953
(Uganda)
IDPs: 2.33 million (fighting between government forces and rebels