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Country outlook · Central Africa

DR Congo

Three scenarios, two horizons. The range is the finding — a single number would imply knowledge nobody has.

Measure	Latest observed	2031	2036
Output per person	$807 2025	$749 – $1,161	$705 – $1,573
Electricity access	23% 2024	26% – 31%	29% – 36%
Internet use	20% 2024	26% – 34%	31% – 43%

Growth bands: -1.22% · 2.52% · 6.26% a year per person, from DR Congo's own 15-year record (2011–2025) — mean ± 0.85 standard deviations, clamped to its own 5th–95th percentile. Not an outside estimate of what this country might do.

Who this outlook leaves out

A cohort that reaches working age faster than jobs, training places or clinics are built
Rain-fed farming households, first and hardest, in a bad season
A state that must regulate technologies it has too few trained people to assess

2031 versus 2036 · DR Congo

Two horizons, asked the same question

By 2031

Household electricity access moves from 22.5% of the population (2024) to between 26% and 31% by 2031, depending on the scenario. Simple continuation gives 28% — a rise of 5.7 percentage points.
In people rather than percentages: about 97.3 million would still be without it in 2031 under continuation — 9.8 million more than in 2024, because the population grows as the share improves.
Internet use moves from 19.7% of the population (2024) to between 26% and 34% by 2031, depending on the scenario. Simple continuation gives 30% — a rise of 9.9 percentage points.
In people rather than percentages: about 95.4 million would still be without it in 2031 under continuation — 4.7 million more than in 2024, because the population grows as the share improves.
Output per person spans $749 to $1,161 by 2031. The $412 between them is wider than half today's $807.
That spread is the distance between scenarios, not a margin of error — and it is a national average, which does not identify whose income moved.
The population reaches about 135.4 million — roughly 22.6 million more people than in 2025, about 70.5 million of them of working age.
This figure is the same in all three scenarios. Most of the people who will be alive in 2031 have already been born.

By 2036

Household electricity access moves from 22.5% of the population (2024) to between 29% and 36% by 2036, depending on the scenario. Simple continuation gives 32% — a rise of 9.6 percentage points.
In people rather than percentages: about 105.7 million would still be without it in 2036 under continuation — 18.3 million more than in 2024, because the population grows as the share improves.
Internet use moves from 19.7% of the population (2024) to between 31% and 43% by 2036, depending on the scenario. Simple continuation gives 36% — a rise of 16.2 percentage points.
In people rather than percentages: about 99.8 million would still be without it in 2036 under continuation — 9.2 million more than in 2024, because the population grows as the share improves.
Output per person spans $705 to $1,573 by 2036. The $868 between them is wider than half today's $807.
That spread is the distance between scenarios, not a margin of error — and it is a national average, which does not identify whose income moved.
The population reaches about 155.7 million — roughly 42.9 million more people than in 2025, about 83.7 million of them of working age.
This figure is the same in all three scenarios. Most of the people who will be alive in 2036 have already been born.

What has to happen first

Grand Inga / Inga 3 remains in the planning and preparation phase and is an African Union Agenda 2063 flagship project. Recorded as proposed: it still has to find financing before it counts as capacity.
The World Bank cancelled support for Grand Inga in 2016 and re-engaged with Inga 3 from 2024; construction is expected to take…. Recorded as proposed: it still has to find financing before it counts as capacity.
DR Congo is identified as being at the drafting stage of a national AI policy. Recorded as proposed: it still has to be adopted before it counts as a change in how things work.

What the growth model cannot see · DR Congo

Political instability & conflict

Binding constraint — This, not the growth model, is the operative question.

Political stability scored -2.1 in 2024, in the lowest band of the Worldwide Governance Indicators, with 4.3 million people internally displaced (2025). The distance between scenarios here is set by whether the security situation holds, not by economic policy. The modelled band, drawn from recent economic history, does not describe what further deterioration would mean.

Why the band cannot contain it

Conflict does not appear in a trailing growth average until after it has already happened. A country at peace for fifteen years has no war in its variance.

What would invalidate the modelled band

Onset or escalation of armed conflict. The modelled band is drawn from economic history and contains no war; if this occurs, disregard the quantitative path entirely.

Assessed in words and deliberately not converted into a probability. This platform does not publish likelihoods it cannot derive from evidence.

AI evidence state · DR Congo

9 of 20 dimensions rest on a document or a measurement

3 dimensions have not been examined at all — which is a statement about this platform's research, not about DR Congo. There is no readiness score here: ranking countries by a weighted sum of twenty evidence states would manufacture a number nobody measured.

4 Measured A published measurement exists for this country and has been read.

5 Documented A policy, law, contract or programme document exists. No measurement of its effect has been found.

2 Inferred Assessed from adjacent indicators. Nothing AI-specific was found for this country; the reading is circumstantial.

6 Not evident Searched, and nothing was found. Informative — but the absence of a published record is not proof that nothing exists.

3 Unexamined This platform has not looked. This is a statement about the research, not about the country.

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