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