(RÉPUBLIQUE DÉMOCRATIQUE DU CONGO)
(Formerly: ZAIRE) (WIPO code: CD) (last revised January 2023)
by CABINET P. TSHINKELA, Kinshasa
(RÉPUBLIQUE DÉMOCRATIQUE DU CONGO)
(Formerly: ZAIRE) (WIPO code: CD) (last revised January 2023)
by CABINET P. TSHINKELA, Kinshasa
2,345,000 sq. km.
108,407,721 inhabitants.
Kinshasa, with about 15.628 million inhabitants.
French.
Congolese franc (floating).
Chief crops: coffee, cotton, rice, sugar cane, bananas, plantains, coconuts, manioc, mangoes, tea, cocoa and palm oil. Minerals: cobalt (two-thirds of world’s output), copper, cadmium, gold, diamonds, silver, tin, germanium, zinc, iron, tungsten, manganese, uranium, radium and crude oil. Other resources: forests, rubber, cattle, goats, fish and electricity. Arable land: 3%. Labor force: 75% agricultural.
Former Belgian Congo. Independent since June 30, 1960. Félix Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo is the new elected President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, sworn in on January 24, 2019. This is the first peaceful transition in the country.
Congo is divided into twenty-six provinces and includes the federal district of Kinshasa.
Statistics | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
Patent applications | 41 | 45 | 83 | 81 |
Trademark applications | 1,230 | 1,078 | 1,055 | 1,223 |
Designs and models applications | 147 | 118 | 84 | 113 |