Congo, DR

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Wars and violent conflicts

Indicator Congo, DR
Conflict involvement as primary party (2017) 2 (2 x intra-state)
Conflict involvement as supporting party (2017) 1 (1 x internationalised intra-state)
Number of victims of war as per 100,000 inhabitants 0.02
Number of violent conflicts and wars between 1960-2017 10
Child soldiers in conflicts (2017) affected
Victims of sexual violence in wars after 1946 yes
Number of homicides as per 100,000 inhabitants (2015) 13.3
Number of robberies as per 100,000 inhabitants
Death penalty (2017) Convicted and executed
Torture no known cases
Index value Political Terror Scale (2015) 4.3
Index value Physical Integrity Rights 0
Index value political system -3
Human Development Index (2017) 0.457
Index value Gini Coefficient (2012) 42.1
Political participation restricted
Number of politically active ethnic groups (2017) 7
Number of all ethnic groups (2017) 13
Ratio of politically active to total number of ethnic groups (2017) 53
Contested territories not affected
Sources:
  • Amnesty International (2018)
  • Bastick et. al (2007)
  • CIRI (2014)
  • CSP (2018)
  • ETH (2018)
  • HKS & PRIO (2016)
  • Natural Earth & GAUL (2016)
  • PTS (2017)
  • Sonderbeauftragter des UN-Generalsekretärs für Kinder und Gewaltkonflikte (2018)
  • UCDP (2018)
  • UCDP/PRIO (2018)
  • UN-Sicherheitsrat (2018)
  • UNDP (2018)
  • UNODC (2017)
  • World Bank (2018)
Detailed information of the used sources can be found in the list of sources page of this module.

Peace and demobilisation

Indicator Congo, DR
Times of Peace ( 1960 - 2017 ) [%] 50
Current UN missions MONUSCO (20609)
Peace missions of other actors
Number of German personnel in missions UN: MONUSCO (3)
Personnel made available for UN operations 4
Number of Blue Helmets per 10,000 inhabitants 0
Current DDR programmes existing
DDR programmes since 1990 existing
Number of demobilised combatants 150,000
Sources:
  • AU (2016)
  • Bundeswehr (2018)
  • CIC (2013)
  • EAD/EEAS (2018)
  • IISS
  • NATO (2018)
  • UCDP/PRIO (2018)
  • UN (2016)
  • UN DPA (2018)
  • UN DPKO (2018)
  • UNDP
  • World Bank (2018)
  • ZIF (2018)
Detailed information of the used sources can be found in the list of sources page of this module.

Military capacities and means

Indicator Congo, DR
Military expenditures in billion 0.3
Share of military expenditures in GDP [%] 0.7
Comparison military expentitures with social spending [%] 10.65
Military personnel 134250
Reservists 0
Number of military personnel per 10,000 inhabitants 16.5
Number of reservists per 10,000 inhabitants 0
Number of military personnel in total incl. reservists per doctor 23.02
Number of military personnel in total incl. reservists per teacher 0.324
Number of heavy weapons systems 558
Number of heavy weapons systems per 10,000 inhabitants 0.069
Index value level of militarisation 1990
Index value level of militarisation 570.938
Trends in militarisation 1990-2017
Recipient countries of German military equipment [EUR] 231,000
Global arms exports [Mio. US$]
Global arms imports [Mio. US$]
Sources:
  • BICC (2018)
  • BMWI (2016)
  • IISS (2018)
  • SIPRI (2017)
  • SIPRI (2018)
  • UNSECO (2017)
  • WHO (2016)
  • World Bank (2016)
Detailed information of the used sources can be found in the list of sources page of this module.

Natural resources and conflicts

Indicator Congo, DR
Oil production [in tousand barrels/day] (2016) 19
Share of global oil production [%] (2016) 0.02
Gas production [Billion m³] (2016)
Share of global gas production [%] (2016)
Diamond mining [in thousand carats] (2017) 18,902,763.56
Share of global diamond mining [%] (2017) 12.53
Mining of selected mineral resources (2016) 7
Cultivation of cocoa tree yes
Cultivation of oil palm yes
Export of tropical woods yes
Cocaanbau
Opiumanbau
Cannabisanbau
Ressource conflict intensity (2017) war
Share of conflict resources of total imports [%]
Share of oil and gas of total imports [%]
Share of diamonds of total imports [%]
Share of agricultural resources of total imports [%]
Share of conflict resources of total exports [%]
Share of oil and gas of total exports [%]
Share of diamonds of total exports [%]
Share of agricultural resources of total exports [%]
Resource dependency high
Resource Governance Index 3.23
Member of Kimberley member
Member of FLEGT no member
Member of EITI member
Corruption Index 21
Sources:
  • BICC (2006)
  • BMNT (2018)
  • EIA (2018)
  • EITI (2018)
  • FAO (2017)
  • FLEGT (2018)
  • HIIK (2018)
  • ITTO (2018)
  • Kimberley (2018)
  • Transparency International (2018)
  • UN Comtrade (2018)
  • UNODC (2018)
  • WTO (2018)
Detailed information of the used sources can be found in the list of sources page of this module.

Conventional Weapons

Indicator Congo, DR
Main exporting country China
Heavy weapons systems from Germany 2004-2016 [€] 692,700
Number of battle tanks 149
Number of submarines 0
Number of combat aircraft 4
MP2/MP2A1 (UZI) can be found
AK 47 (Kalashnikov and ist variants ) can be found
G3 can be found
Number of civilian SALW as per 100 inhabitants 1.2
German small arms exports 2006–2016 [€] 25,995
Small arms exports [$]
Small arms imports [$]
Mine contamination light
Mine production
Mine stockpiling
Member of the Mine Ban Treaty ratified or acceeded
Cluster munitions contamination light
Cluster munitions production
Cluster munitions stockpiling
Member of the convention on Cluster Munitions signed, but not ratfiied
Victims of landmines and cluster munitions
Sources:
  • BICC (2016)
  • Bundeswehr (2016)
  • CMC (2018)
  • EU (2018)
  • ICBL (2018)
  • IISS (2017)
  • LCMM (2017)
  • SAS (2018)
  • UN Comtrade (2018)
  • UNODA (2017)
Detailed information of the used sources can be found in the list of sources page of this module.

Weapons of mass destruction

Indicator Congo, DR
Means of delivery
Nuclear power no nuclear power
Current possession of nuclear weapons
Possession of nuclear weapons peak
Nuclear tests
Uran production [in tons]
Reactors in total 2
Nuclear reactors
Research reactors 2
Uranium enrichment plants
Uranium reprocessing plants
HEU [in kilograms]
Plutonium [in tons]
Risk of natural catastrophe index
Total people living within 30 km [in mio.]
Total people living within 150 km [in mio.]
Biological warfare agents
Number of events 1970-2017
Chemical warfare agents
Number of events 1970-2016 1 other
Sources:
  • ACA (2018)
  • BEH (2018)
  • CIESIN (2016)
  • CNS (2008)
  • CTBTO (2018)
  • FAS (2018)
  • IAEO (2018)
  • IISS (2018)
  • ILPI (2016)
  • IPFM (2018)
  • NNSA (2000)
  • START (2018)
  • bmnt (2018)
Detailed information of the used sources can be found in the list of sources page of this module.

Arms control

Indicator Congo, DR
Ratified multilateral arms control agreements 6
CFE & CFE-II agreement
Geneva Conventions since 1961
UN-Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons not signed
Treaty on Open Skies
Dayton Agreement
Vienna Document
Non-Proliferation Treaty ratified
Nuclear-weapon-free zones
Biological Weapons Concention ratified
Chemical Weapons Convention ratified
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Annex 2 ratified
Use of outer space
Outer space treaty signed
Convention on Registration of Launched Objects into Outer Space not signed
Number of registered and active satellites
Sources:
  • AA (2016)
  • CTBTO (2016)
  • Eurospace (2015)
  • ICRC (2018)
  • OHR (1995)
  • OPCW (2018)
  • OSCE (2011)
  • OSCE (2016)
  • UCS (2018)
  • UNODA (2016)
  • UNODA (2018)
  • UNOG (2018)
  • UNOOSA (2018)
  • aca (2012)
Detailed information of the used sources can be found in the list of sources page of this module.

Environmental safety

Indicator Congo, DR
Environmental conflicts
Global temprature increase (1960-2017) [°C] 1.11
Proportion of population potentially affected by rising sea levels in 2030 [%] 0.07
Total number of population potentially affected by rising sea levels in 2030 0.08
Cilmate-Risk-Index rank (1997 - 2016) 145 (very low)
Cilmate-Risk-Index value (1997 - 2016) 131
Water scarcity in 2040 0.15 (very low)
Water scarcity in 2040 (optimistic) 0.15
Water scarcity in 2040 (pessimistic) 0
Number of dams & reservoirs 5
Total storage volume of dams & reserviors [mio. m3] 4,091.5
Number of land grabbing deals 34
Proportion of the land area affected by soil degradation (1982-2003) [%] 57.43
Sources:
  • Ackva et al. (2015)
  • Bai et al. (2008)
  • Carius et al. (2006)
  • EC-JRC/PBL (2017)
  • GRDC (2007)
  • GWSP (2011)
  • Germanwatch (2018)
  • Global Land Matrix (2018)
  • Hansen et al. (2010), GISTEMP Team (2018)
  • Neumann et al. (2015)
  • WRI (2015)
Detailed information of the used sources can be found in the list of sources page of this module.

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