What they reported
Only 14.8% of targets are on track, 49.2% show limited progress or stagnate, and 36.1% are regressing.
Public revenue was 11.4% of GDP in 2025, and installed electrical capacity grew 20% since 2020.
Priorities and asks
Ending the armed conflicts in the east, targeted reforms and strategic investment, and stronger statistics.
What stands out
It is one of the most candid negative self-assessments in the cohort, and is running a second population census to fix the data.
The data angle
A second General Population and Housing Census is under way to produce reliable, disaggregated, up-to-date data.
Read more
- Voluntary National Reviews 2026, the full brief with all 36 countries and the cross-cutting themes.
- Official VNR country database, home of Democratic Republic of the Congo’s full report and main messages.
- HLPF 2026 coverage, where the reviews are presented.
This summary is drawn from Democratic Republic of the Congo’s own 2026 main messages; figures are as the government reported them and were not independently verified. The main messages were reviewed in French and translated. Edition is noted only where the country states its own.