[presidio9]

The CIA World Factbook lists the current (2002) population of Congo to be 2,958,448. So I tend to think that this number is high. Whatever it is, it is appalling.

[proxy_user]

You're mixing up two countries. This is the former Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo, population 37.8 million. There is another country, called simply Congo, whose population is 2.2 million.