In 2021, life expectancy for Democratic Republic of the Congo was 59.2 years. Between 1972 and 2021, life expectancy of Democratic Republic of the Congo grew substantially from 43.9 to 59.2 years rising at an increasing annual rate that reached a maximum of 3.68% in 2000 and then decreased to -0.91% in 2021.
The description is composed by our digital data assistant.Life expectancy at birth indicates the number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life.