World population/Congo
Africa
Population of Congo
6,637,786
Growing by 0.00 people every second
#112
world rank
0.08%
of world population
+2.36%
yearly change
+156,512
people this year
198,689
births a year
40,989
deaths a year
How the figure for Congo is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Congo at 6,637,786 on 1 July 2026, and projects 6,794,298 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.00 people added every second.
That places Congo at number 112 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.08 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 58 entries in Africa.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 198,689 births and 40,989 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.
Other countries in Africa
Ranked by population.