Colombia’s coastline is 87 times as long as the DR Congo’s

Colombia: 3,208 km (2026 edition) · DR Congo: 37 km (2026 edition)

Colombia’s highest peak towers 620 m above the DR Congo’s

Colombia: 5,730 m (2026 edition) · DR Congo: 5,110 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 37% of Colombia, versus 16% of the DR Congo

Colombia: 36.5% (2024) · DR Congo: 16.2% (2024)

The DR Congo has 2.1 times as many people as Colombia

Colombia: 53.4 million (2025) · DR Congo: 113 million (2025)

The DR Congo is 3% more densely populated than Colombia

Colombia: 48 per km² (2025) · DR Congo: 50 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Colombia is 16 years older than in the DR Congo

Colombia: 31.6 years (2023) · DR Congo: 15.8 years (2023)

Women in the DR Congo have 4.3 more children on average than in Colombia

Colombia: 1.63 children per woman (2024) · DR Congo: 5.98 children per woman (2024)

10% of people in Colombia are 65 or older, versus 3.1% in the DR Congo

Colombia: 10.2% (2025) · DR Congo: 3.1% (2025)

The DR Congo hosts 163 times as many refugees per resident as Colombia

Colombia: 0.027 per 1,000 (2025) · DR Congo: 4.5 per 1,000 (2025)

Colombia has produced 0.4 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, the DR Congo 0.1

Colombia: 0.4 (2026) · DR Congo: 0.1 (2026)

The DR Congo has 5 official languages, Colombia 1

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

Colombia’s economy is 5 times the size of the DR Congo’s

Colombia: $457 billion (2025) · DR Congo: $91 billion (2025)

Colombia produces 12 times as much per person as the DR Congo

Colombia: Int$22,640 (2025) · DR Congo: Int$1,920 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Colombia than in the DR Congo (Gini 9.7 points higher)

Colombia: 54.4 (2024) · DR Congo: 44.7 (2020)

85% of people in the DR Congo live on less than $3 a day, versus 8.5% in Colombia

Colombia: 8.5% (2024) · DR Congo: 85.3% (2020)

Unemployment is 8.3% in Colombia, versus 4.4% in the DR Congo

Colombia: 8.3% (2025) · DR Congo: 4.4% (2025)

Colombia spends 3.2% of its GDP on the military, the DR Congo 1.4%

Colombia: 3.2% (2025) · DR Congo: 1.4% (2025)

Colombia’s central government collects 15% of GDP in tax, the DR Congo’s 11%

Colombia: 15.2% (2024) · DR Congo: 10.7% (2022)

The DR Congo’s price level (US = 100) is 1.1× Colombia’s

Colombia: 38% (2025) · DR Congo: 42% (2025)

Colombia spends 27 times as much on health per person as the DR Congo

Colombia: $644 (2024) · DR Congo: $23 (2023)

A baby in the DR Congo is 5.4 times as likely to die before turning one as in Colombia

Colombia: 10.5 per 1,000 (2024) · DR Congo: 56.4 per 1,000 (2024)

Colombia has 12 times as many doctors per person as the DR Congo

Colombia: 2.5 per 1,000 (2023) · DR Congo: 0.2 per 1,000 (2022)

Colombia: 1.7 per 1,000 (2020) · DR Congo: no data

The suicide rate in the DR Congo is 2.6 times that in Colombia

Colombia: 6.8 per 100k (2023) · DR Congo: 18 per 100k (2023)

25% of adults in Colombia are obese, versus 5.9% in the DR Congo

Colombia: 25.3% (2024) · DR Congo: 5.9% (2024)

12% of adults in the DR Congo smoke, versus 8.0% in Colombia

Colombia: 8% (2024) · DR Congo: 12.3% (2024)

People in Colombia rate their lives 2.28 points higher than in the DR Congo

Colombia: 6.04 (2025) · DR Congo: 3.76 (2025)

Adults in Colombia drink 3 times as much alcohol as in the DR Congo

Colombia: 4.9 litres (2023) · DR Congo: 1.6 litres (2023)

Colombia has 18 times as much meat per person as the DR Congo

Colombia: 62.6 kg (2023) · DR Congo: 3.5 kg (2023)

Colombia has 1,112 kcal more food per person per day than the DR Congo

Colombia: 3,126 kcal (2023) · DR Congo: 2,015 kcal (2023)

Workers in Colombia put in 630 more hours a year than in the DR Congo

Colombia: 2,471 hours (2023) · DR Congo: 1,841 hours (2023)

Adults in Colombia went to school 1.7 years longer than in the DR Congo

Colombia: 9 years (2023) · DR Congo: 7.4 years (2023)

Colombia welcomed 17 times as many tourists per resident as the DR Congo (2019)

Colombia: 0.09 (2022) · DR Congo: 0.01 (2019)

Colombia has 4 more World Heritage sites than the DR Congo (9 against 5)

Colombia: 9 (2026) · DR Congo: 5 (2026)

Colombia has won 38 Olympic medals, the DR Congo none

Colombia: 38 (2026 edition) · DR Congo: 0 (2026 edition)

79% of people in Colombia are online, versus 20% in the DR Congo

Colombia: 79% (2024) · DR Congo: 20% (2024)

Home internet in Colombia is 3.3 times as fast as in the DR Congo

Colombia: 246 Mbps (2026) · DR Congo: 75 Mbps (2026)

99% of people in Colombia have electricity, versus 23% in the DR Congo

Colombia: 98.9% (2024) · DR Congo: 22.5% (2024)

79% of people in Colombia live in cities, versus 45% in the DR Congo

Colombia: 79% (2025) · DR Congo: 45% (2025)

Colombia has 174 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, the DR Congo 59

Colombia: 174 (2024) · DR Congo: 59 (2024)

The DR Congo’s railway network is 70% longer than Colombia’s

Colombia: 2,141 km (2019) · DR Congo: 3,641 km (2021)

Airlines from Colombia fly 78 times as many passengers per resident as those from the DR Congo

Colombia: 0.79 (2023) · DR Congo: 0.01 (2023)

Forest covers 62% of the DR Congo, but only 54% of Colombia

Colombia: 53.7% (2024) · DR Congo: 61.5% (2024)

The average person in Colombia emits 32 times as much CO₂ as someone in the DR Congo

Colombia: 1.8 t (2024) · DR Congo: 0.1 t (2024)

100% of the DR Congo’s electricity is renewable, versus 77% in Colombia

Colombia: 77% (2025) · DR Congo: 100% (2024)

The air in the DR Congo carries 2.7 times as much fine dust as in Colombia

Colombia: 15.1 µg/m³ (2024) · DR Congo: 41.2 µg/m³ (2024)

Colombia: 24.9 per 100k (2023) · DR Congo: no data

Roads in Colombia are 13% deadlier than in the DR Congo

Colombia: 26.7 per 100k (2023) · DR Congo: 23.7 per 100k (2023)

The DR Congo is on average 0.4 °C warmer than Colombia

Colombia: 24.4°C (2016–2025 avg) · DR Congo: 24.8°C (2016–2025 avg)

Colombia gets 2.1 times as much rain as the DR Congo

Colombia: 3,155 mm (2016–2025 avg) · DR Congo: 1,469 mm (2016–2025 avg)