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Economic indicators

	2015	2020	2025
GDP: Gross domestic product (million current US$)	12 435	11 469	14 167^b
GDP growth rate (annual %, const. 2015 prices)	0.4	-6.3	2^b
GDP per capita (current US$)	2 439.0	1 994.0	2 291.0^b
Economy: Agriculture (% of Gross Value Added)	6.1	10.9	9.5^b
Economy: Industry (% of Gross Value Added)	51.2	34.7	47.8^b
Economy: Services and other activity (% of GVA)	42.7	54.4	42.7^b
Employment in agriculture^f (% of employed)	31.9	31.3	30.2^b
Employment in industry^f (% of employed)	24.9	23.2	23.2^b
Employment in services^f (% employed)	43.2	45.5	46.7^b
Unemployment^f (% of labour force)	20	22.2	19.4
Labour force participation rate^f (female/male pop. %)	66.6 / 69.7	65.3 / 68.5	66.2 / 69.6
CPI: Consumer Price Index^f,g (2010=100)	116	127	139^b
Agricultural production index (2014-2016=100)	102	103	105^b
International trade: exports (million current US$)	8 623	4 893	8 363^f,e
International trade: imports (million current US$)	10 550	1 908	4 896^f,e
International trade: balance (million current US$)	- 1 927	2 985	3 467^f,e
Balance of payments, current account (million US$)	- 4 631	1 441	1 716^h

Social indicators

	2015	2020	2025
Population growth rate (average annual %)	2.4	2.4	2.3^a
Urban population (% of total population)	65.5	67.4^d	...
Urban population growth rate (average annual %)	3.3ⁱ	...	...
Fertility rate, total (live births per woman)	4.6	4.3	4^a
Life expectancy at birth (females/males, years)	65.1 / 62.2	66.2 / 62.7	67.9 / 64.5^a
Population age distribution^j (0-14/60+ years old, %)	41.9 / 4.3	41.8 / 4.6	39.9 / 5.2^a
International migrant stock^k (000/% of total pop.)	390.1 / 7.7	387.6 / 6.7	385.6 / 6.1^e
Refugees and others of concern to UNHCR (000)	65.8	186.7	81.4^e
Under five mortality rate (per 1000 live births)	51.8	43.4	37.8^a
Health: Current expenditure^l (% of GDP)	2.5	4	2.2^m
Health: Physicians (per 1 000 pop.)	0.1ⁿ	0.1^o	0.2^m
Education: Primary gross enrol. ratio (f/m per 100 pop.)	107.9 / 106.9	86.1 / 88.8^o	86.9 / 88.9^b
Education: Lowr. sec. gross enrol. ratio (f/m per 100 pop.)	62.2 / 61.3^p	70.9 / 74.0^o	... / ...
Education: Upr. Sec. gross enrol. ratio (f/m per 100 pop.)	35.3 / 45.6^q	51.0 / 59.6^o	... / ...
Seats held by women in national parliaments (%)	7.4	11.3^r	14.6^r

Environment and infrastructure indicators

	2015	2020	2025
Individuals using the Internet^f (per 100 inhabitants)	7.6	24.8	38.4^b
Research & Development expenditure (% of GDP)	...	...	0.4^s,t,u,m
Threatened species (number)	119	155	247^e
Forested area (% of land area)	64.5	64.3	64.2^m
CO2 emission estimates (million tons/tons per capita)	3.2 / 0.6	4.1 / 0.7	5.0 / 0.8^m
Energy production, primary (Petajoules)	608	777	706^m
Energy supply per capita (Gigajoules)	23	24	26^m
Tourist/visitor arrivals at national borders (000)	220	156^o	...
Important sites for terrestrial biodiversity protected (%)	42.2	51.2	51.2^e
Pop. using safely managed drinking water (urban/rural, %)	58.5 / 17.0	58.6 / 19.1	58.6 / 19.1^h
Net Official Development Assist. received (% of GNI)	0.72	1.9	2.61^b

a		Projected est. (medium fertility variant).
b		2023
c		African Financial Community (CFA) Franc, Bank of Central African States (BEAC).
d		2019
e		2024
f		Estimate.
g		Brazzaville
h		2021
i		Data refers to a 5-year period preceding the reference year.
j		Calculated by the UN Statistics Division.
k		Including refugees.
l		Based on calendar year (January 1 to December 31).
m		2022
n		2011
o		2018
p		2012
q		2014
r		Data at 1 January of the reporting year.
s		Higher Education only.
t		Overestimated or based on overestimated data.
u		Provisional data.