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Democratic Republic of the Congo

Democratic Republic of the Congo fields 128,350 active soldiers and 538,320 reservists, with 174 tanks and 8 combat aircraft. It shares a land border with 9 countries. Below is how the model plays out a war on each of those borders.

Democratic Republic of the Congo in numbers

Active soldiers

128,350

Reservists

538,320est.

Tanks

174

Armoured vehicles

1,209est.

Artillery

1,773est.

Combat aircraft

Helicopters

56est.

Defence budget

$1.1bn

GDP

$91bn

Population

112.8m

From free public sources: Wikipedia's country lists (citing the IISS Military Balance), the CIA World Factbook and the World Bank. Figures marked est. have no free source and are model estimates; every value's source is on the data sources page. Not operational information.

Neighbours

Angola Burundi Central African Republic Congo Rwanda South Sudan Tanzania Uganda Zambia

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Model-generated simulation on public, country-level data. Not a prediction. No operational, classified or real-time information is used.