Statistical information Congo 1992Congo

Map of Congo | Geography | People | Government | Economy | Energy | Communication
Military | Transportation | Transnational Issues | Year:  | More stats

Congo in the World
Congo in the World

Hotel Chocolat St. Lucia


Congo - Introduction 1992
top of page


Background: Upon independence in 1960 the former French region of Middle Congo became the Republic of the Congo. A quarter century of experimentation with Marxism was abandoned in 1990 and a democratically elected government installed in 1992.


Congo - Geography 1992
top of page


Location

Geographic coordinates

Map reference

Area
Total: 342,000 km²
Land: 341,500 km²
Comparative: slightly smaller than Montana

Land boundaries:
5,504 km; Angola 201 km, Cameroon 523 km, Central
African Republic 467 km, Gabon 1,903 km, Zaire 2,410 km


Coastline: 169 km

Maritime claims
Territorial sea: 200 nm
Disputes: long section with Zaire along the Congo River is indefinite (no division of the river or its islands has been made)

Climate:
tropical; rainy season (March to June); dry season (June to
October); constantly high temperatures and humidity; particularly enervating climate astride the Equator


Terrain: coastal plain, southern basin, central plateau, northern basin

Elevation

Natural resources: petroleum, timber, potash, lead, zinc, uranium, copper, phosphates, natural gas
Land use

Land use: arable land: 2%; permanent crops: NEGL%; meadows and pastures 29%; forest and woodland 62%; other 7%

Irrigated land

Major rivers

Major watersheds area km²

Total water withdrawal

Total renewable water resources

Natural hazards

Geography


Congo - People 1992
top of page


Population: 2,376,687 (July 1992), growth rate 2.9% (1992)

Nationality:
noun - Congolese (singular and plural); adjective -
Congolese or Congo


Ethnic groups:
about 15 ethnic groups divided into some 75 tribes, almost all Bantu; most important ethnic groups are Kongo (48%) in the south,
Sangha (20%) and M'Bochi (12%) in the north, Teke (17%) in the center; about 8,500 Europeans, mostly French


Languages:
French (official); many African languages with Lingala and
Kikongo most widely used


Religions: Christian 50%, animist 48%, Muslim 2%

Demographic profile
Age structure

Age structure

Dependency ratios

Median age

Population growth rate

Birth rate: 42 births/1000 population (1992)

Death rate: 13 deaths/1000 population (1992)

Net migration rate: 0 migrants/1000 population (1992)

Population distribution

Urbanization

Major urban areas

Environment
Current issues:
deforestation; about 70% of the population lives in
Brazzaville, Pointe Noire, or along the railroad between them


Air pollutants

Sex ratio

Mothers mean age at first birth

Maternal mortality ratio

Infant mortality rate: 109 deaths/1000 live births (1992)

Life expectancy at birth: 53 years male, 56 years female (1992)

Total fertility rate: 5.7 children born/woman (1992)

Contraceptive prevalence rate

Drinking water source

Current health expenditure

Physicians density

Hospital bed density

Sanitation facility access

Hiv/Aids

Major infectious diseases

Obesity adult prevalence rate

Alcohol consumption

Tobacco use

Children under the age of 5 years underweight

Education expenditures

Literacy: 57% (male 70%, female 44%) age 15 and over can read and write (1990 est.)

School life expectancy primary to tertiary education

Youth unemployment


Congo - Government 1992
top of page


Country name
Conventional long form: Republic of the Congo

Government type: republic

Capital: Brazzaville

Administrative divisions:
9 regions (regions, singular - region) and 1 commune*; Bouenza, Brazzaville*, Cuvette, Kouilou, Lekoumou, Likouala,
Niari, Plateaux, Pool, Sangha


Dependent areas

Independence: 15 August 1960 (from France; formerly Congo/Brazzaville)

National holiday: Congolese National Day, 15 August (1960)

Constitution: 8 July 1979, currently being modified

Legal system: based on French civil law system and customary law

International law organization participation

Citizenship

Suffrage: universal at age 18
National Assembly:
transitional body selected by National Conference in
May 1991; election for new legislative body to be held spring 1992

President: last held 26-31 July 1989 (next to be held June 1992); results - President SASSOU-NGUESSO unanimously reelected leader of the PCT by the Party Congress, which automatically made him president
Communists: small number of Communists and sympathizers

Executive branch: president, prime minister, Council of Ministers (cabinet)

Legislative branch: a transitional National Assembly

Judicial branch: Supreme Court (Cour Supreme)

Political parties and leaders

International organization participation:
ACCT, ACP, AfDB, BDEAC, CCC, CEEAC, ECA, FAO, FZ, G-77, GATT,
IBRD, ICAO, IDA, IFAD, IFC, ILO, IMF, IMO, INTELSAT, INTERPOL, IOC, ITU,
LORCS, NAM, OAU, UDEAC, UN, UNAVEM, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UPU, WFTU, WHO,
WIPO, WMO, WTO

Diplomatic representation:
Ambassador Roger ISSOMBO; Chancery at 4,891
Colorado Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20,011; telephone (202) 726-5,500

US:
Ambassador James Daniel PHILLIPS; Embassy at Avenue Amilcar Cabral,
Brazzaville (mailing address is B. P. 1015, Brazzaville, or Box C, APO AE 9,828); telephone (242) 83-20-70; FAX 242 83-63-38


Diplomatic representation

Flag descriptionflag of Congo: red, divided diagonally from the lower hoist side by a yellow band; the upper triangle (hoist side) is green and the lower triangle is red; uses the popular pan-African colors of Ethiopia

National symbols

National anthem

National heritage


Congo - Economy 1992
top of page


Economy overview: Congo's economy is a mixture of village agriculture and handicrafts, a beginning industrial sector based largely on oil, supporting services, and a government characterized by budget problems and overstaffing. A reform program, supported by the IMF and World Bank, ran into difficulties in 1990-91 because of problems in changing to a democratic political regime and a heavy debt-servicing burden. Oil has supplanted forestry as the mainstay of the economy, providing about two-thirds of government revenues and exports. In the early 1980s rapidly rising oil revenues enabled Congo to finance large-scale development projects with growth averaging 5% annually, one of the highest rates in Africa. During the period 1987-91, however, growth has slowed to an average of roughly 1.5% annually, only half the population growth rate.
GDP: exchange rate conversion - $2.4 billion, per capita $1,070; real growth rate 0.5% (1990 est.)

Real gdp purchasing power parity

Real gdp growth rate

Real gdp per capita

Gross national saving
Gdp composition by sector of origin

Gdp composition by end use

Gdp composition by sector of origin

Agriculture products: accounts for 10% of GDP (including fishing and forestry; cassava accounts for 90% of food output; other crops - rice, corn, peanuts, vegetables; cash crops include coffee and cocoa; forest products important export earner; imports over 90% of food needs

Industries: crude oil, cement, sawmills, brewery, sugar mill, palm oil, soap, cigarettes

Industrial production growth rate: growth rate 1.2% (1989; accounts for 33% of GDP, including petroleum

Labor force: 79,100 wage earners; agriculture 75%, commerce, industry, and government 25%; 51% of population of working age; 40% of population economically active (1985)
Organized labor: 20% of labor force (1979 est.)
Labor force

Unemployment rate: NA%

Youth unemployment

Population below poverty line

Gini index

Household income or consumption by percentage share

Distribution of family income gini index

Budget: revenues $522 million; expenditures $767 million, including capital expenditures of $141 million (1989)

Taxes and other revenues

Public debt

Revenue

Fiscal year: calendar year

Inflation rate consumer prices

Central bank discount rate

Commercial bank prime lending rate

Stock of narrow money

Stock of broad money

Stock of domestic credit

Market value of publicly traded shares

Current account balance

Exports: $751 million (f.o.b., 1988)
Commodoties: crude petroleum 72%, lumber, plywood, coffee, cocoa, sugar, diamonds
Partners: US, France, other EC

Imports: $564 million (c.i.f., 1988)
Commodoties: foodstuffs, consumer goods, intermediate manufactures, capital equipment
Partners: France, Italy, other EC, US, FRG, Spain, Japan, Brazil

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold

Debt external

Stock of direct foreign investment at home

Stock of direct foreign investment abroad

Exchange rates: Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (CFAF) per US$1 - 269.01 (January 1992), 282.11 (1991), 272.26 (1990), 319.01 (1989), 297.85 (1988), 300.54 (1987)


Congo - Energy 1992
top of page


Electricity
Production: 140,000 kW capacity; 315 million kWh produced, 135 kWh per capita (1991)

Coal

Petroleum

Crude oil

Refined petroleum

Natural gas

Carbon dioxide emissions

Energy consumption per capita


Congo - Communication 1992
top of page


Telephones

Telephone system

Broadcast media

Internet

Broadband fixed subscriptions


Congo - Military 1992
top of page


Military expenditures
Percent of gdp:
exchange rate conversion - $100 million, 4.6% of
GDP (1987 est.)


Military and security forces

Military service age and obligation

Space program

Terrorist groups


Congo - Transportation 1992
top of page


National air transport system

Civil aircraft registration country code prefix

Airports:
46 total, 42 usable; 6 with permanent-surface runways; none
with runways over 3,659 m; 1
with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 17
with runways 1,220-2,439 m


Heliports

Pipelines: crude oil 25 km

Railways

Roadways

Waterways: the Congo and Ubangi (Oubangui) Rivers provide 1,120 km of commercially navigable water transport; the rest are used for local traffic only

Merchant marine

Ports and terminals


Congo - Transnational issues 1992
top of page


Disputes international

Refugees and internally displaced persons

Illicit drugs


Air Serbia


You found a piece of the puzzle

Please click here to complete it
SurfShark