Austria: 0 km (2026 edition) · DR Congo: 37 km (2026 edition)

The DR Congo’s highest peak towers 1,312 m above Austria’s

Austria: 3,798 m (2026 edition) · DR Congo: 5,110 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 31% of Austria, versus 16% of the DR Congo

Austria: 31.1% (2024) · DR Congo: 16.2% (2024)

The DR Congo has 12 times as many people as Austria

Austria: 9.21 million (2025) · DR Congo: 113 million (2025)

Austria is 2.2 times as densely populated as the DR Congo

Austria: 112 per km² (2025) · DR Congo: 50 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Austria is 27 years older than in the DR Congo

Austria: 43.1 years (2023) · DR Congo: 15.8 years (2023)

Women in the DR Congo have 4.7 more children on average than in Austria

Austria: 1.31 children per woman (2024) · DR Congo: 5.98 children per woman (2024)

21% of people in Austria are 65 or older, versus 3.1% in the DR Congo

Austria: 21.1% (2025) · DR Congo: 3.1% (2025)

Austria hosts 7 times as many refugees per resident as the DR Congo

Austria: 31.1 per 1,000 (2025) · DR Congo: 4.5 per 1,000 (2025)

Austria has produced 20.6 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, the DR Congo 0.1

Austria: 20.6 (2026) · DR Congo: 0.1 (2026)

The DR Congo has 5 official languages, Austria 1

Austria: 1 (2026) · DR Congo: 5 (2026)

Austria’s economy is 6.4 times the size of the DR Congo’s

Austria: $579 billion (2025) · DR Congo: $91 billion (2025)

Austria produces 40 times as much per person as the DR Congo

Austria: Int$76,778 (2025) · DR Congo: Int$1,920 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in the DR Congo than in Austria (Gini 13.5 points higher)

Austria: 31.2 (2023) · DR Congo: 44.7 (2020)

85% of people in the DR Congo live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.5% in Austria

Austria: 0.5% (2023) · DR Congo: 85.3% (2020)

Unemployment is 5.6% in Austria, versus 4.4% in the DR Congo

Austria: 5.6% (2025) · DR Congo: 4.4% (2025)

The DR Congo and Austria are practically level

Austria: 1.1% (2025) · DR Congo: 1.4% (2025)

Austria’s central government collects 26% of GDP in tax, the DR Congo’s 11%

Austria: 25.8% (2024) · DR Congo: 10.7% (2022)

Austria’s price level (US = 100) is 2× the DR Congo’s

Austria: 82% (2025) · DR Congo: 42% (2025)

Austria spends 288 times as much on health per person as the DR Congo

Austria: $6,739 (2024) · DR Congo: $23 (2023)

A baby in the DR Congo is 20 times as likely to die before turning one as in Austria

Austria: 2.8 per 1,000 (2024) · DR Congo: 56.4 per 1,000 (2024)

Austria has 27 times as many doctors per person as the DR Congo

Austria: 5.5 per 1,000 (2023) · DR Congo: 0.2 per 1,000 (2022)

Austria: 6.7 per 1,000 (2022) · DR Congo: no data

The suicide rate in the DR Congo is 42% higher than in Austria

Austria: 12.7 per 100k (2023) · DR Congo: 18 per 100k (2023)

18% of adults in Austria are obese, versus 5.9% in the DR Congo

Austria: 18.3% (2024) · DR Congo: 5.9% (2024)

24% of adults in Austria smoke, versus 12% in the DR Congo

Austria: 23.8% (2024) · DR Congo: 12.3% (2024)

People in Austria rate their lives 3.08 points higher than in the DR Congo

Austria: 6.85 (2025) · DR Congo: 3.76 (2025)

Adults in Austria drink 7.3 times as much alcohol as in the DR Congo

Austria: 11.6 litres (2023) · DR Congo: 1.6 litres (2023)

Austria has 21 times as much meat per person as the DR Congo

Austria: 73.7 kg (2023) · DR Congo: 3.5 kg (2023)

Austria has 1,741 kcal more food per person per day than the DR Congo

Austria: 3,756 kcal (2023) · DR Congo: 2,015 kcal (2023)

Workers in the DR Congo put in 403 more hours a year than in Austria

Austria: 1,438 hours (2023) · DR Congo: 1,841 hours (2023)

Adults in Austria went to school 5 years longer than in the DR Congo

Austria: 12.4 years (2023) · DR Congo: 7.4 years (2023)

Austria welcomed 563 times as many tourists per resident as the DR Congo (2019)

Austria: 2.9 (2022) · DR Congo: 0.01 (2019)

Austria has 7 more World Heritage sites than the DR Congo (12 against 5)

Austria: 12 (2026) · DR Congo: 5 (2026)

Austria has won 367 Olympic medals, the DR Congo none

Austria: 367 (2026 edition) · DR Congo: 0 (2026 edition)

92% of people in Austria are online, versus 20% in the DR Congo

Austria: 92% (2025) · DR Congo: 20% (2024)

Home internet in Austria is 2.3 times as fast as in the DR Congo

Austria: 174 Mbps (2026) · DR Congo: 75 Mbps (2026)

100% of people in Austria have electricity, versus 23% in the DR Congo

Austria: 100% (2024) · DR Congo: 22.5% (2024)

70% of people in Austria live in cities, versus 45% in the DR Congo

Austria: 70% (2025) · DR Congo: 45% (2025)

Austria has 124 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, the DR Congo 59

Austria: 124 (2024) · DR Congo: 59 (2024)

Austria’s railway network is 36% longer than the DR Congo’s

Austria: 4,962 km (2021) · DR Congo: 3,641 km (2021)

Airlines from Austria fly 490 times as many passengers per resident as those from the DR Congo

Austria: 5 (2023) · DR Congo: 0.01 (2023)

Forest covers 62% of the DR Congo, but only 47% of Austria

Austria: 47.3% (2024) · DR Congo: 61.5% (2024)

The average person in Austria emits 114 times as much CO₂ as someone in the DR Congo

Austria: 6.2 t (2024) · DR Congo: 0.1 t (2024)

100% of the DR Congo’s electricity is renewable, versus 84% in Austria

Austria: 83.6% (2025) · DR Congo: 100% (2024)

The air in the DR Congo carries 4 times as much fine dust as in Austria

Austria: 10.3 µg/m³ (2024) · DR Congo: 41.2 µg/m³ (2024)

Austria: 0.9 per 100k (2023) · DR Congo: no data

Roads in the DR Congo are 3.6 times as deadly as in Austria

Austria: 6.5 per 100k (2023) · DR Congo: 23.7 per 100k (2023)

The DR Congo is on average 17.0 °C warmer than Austria

Austria: 7.8°C (2016–2025 avg) · DR Congo: 24.8°C (2016–2025 avg)

The DR Congo gets 16% more rain than Austria

Austria: 1,268 mm (2016–2025 avg) · DR Congo: 1,469 mm (2016–2025 avg)