Demand for Urban Lands

• Inadequate city & urban planning since the colonial era

• Huge under-investment in

infrastructures

• Chronic traffic jams and human

congestion

• Inefficient land and tittle registry

systems

• Lack of agglomeration economies

• One of the world's fastest-growing

megacities

• Estimated population (2023) of 16

million residents mostly aged between

25 and 45

• Most densely populated city in the

DRC

• Most populous city in Africa

• Estimated population (2023) of well over 111 million citizens

• Country ranks 15th most populous in the world as of

2024

• Population now exceeding that of Vietnam which had

98,858,950 inhabitants as of 2023

• As of 2020, 46.38% of the population was children below the age of 14 while 51.15% was between 15 and

65 years of age and 2.47% was 65 years or older

• Vast wealth of natural resources both above and underground

• Remarkable post-COVID economic recovery

• Real GDP average growth rates above 6% following 2003 transitional government

• Strong economic resilience in 2009 with a real GDP average growth rate at 2.8% when the world economy as a whole

went into recession

• 2010 and 2011 saw improved performances with growth rates of 7.0% and 6.9 %, respectively

• Since 2003, the DRC state government has been working closely with the IMF to improve its governance which led to the

approval of a new three-year program financed by the extended credit facility to the government economic program,

thus leading to continued improvements in infrastructure developments and refined processes in extractive industries