Congo Republic of The Energy - 2024

Electricity access

population without electricity: 3 million (2020)

electrification - total population: 49.6% (2021)

electrification - urban areas: 66.9% (2021)

electrification - rural areas: 12.3% (2021)

Electricity

installed generating capacity: 629,000 kW (2020 est.)

consumption: 2,065,580,000 kWh (2019 est.)

exports: 44 million kWh (2019 est.)

imports: 23 million kWh (2019 est.)

transmission/distribution losses: 1.623 billion kWh (2019 est.)

Electricity generation sources

fossil fuels: 70.1% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

nuclear: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

solar: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

wind: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

hydroelectricity: 29.9% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

tide and wave: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

geothermal: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

biomass and waste: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

Coal

production: 0 metric tons (2020 est.)

consumption: 0 metric tons (2020 est.)

exports: 0 metric tons (2020 est.)

imports: 0 metric tons (2020 est.)

proven reserves: 0 metric tons (2019 est.)

Petroleum

total petroleum production: 270,900 bbl/day (2021 est.)

refined petroleum consumption: 12,600 bbl/day (2019 est.)

crude oil and lease condensate exports: 331,700 bbl/day (2018 est.)

crude oil and lease condensate imports: 0 bbl/day (2018 est.)

crude oil estimated reserves: 2.882 billion barrels (2021 est.)

Refined petroleum products - production

15,760 bbl/day (2015 est.)

Refined petroleum products - exports

5,766 bbl/day (2015 est.)

Refined petroleum products - imports

7,162 bbl/day (2015 est.)

Natural gas

production: 1.4 billion cubic meters (2019 est.)

consumption: 1.4 billion cubic meters (2019 est.)

exports: 0 cubic meters (2021 est.)

imports: 0 cubic meters (2021 est.)

proven reserves: 283.989 billion cubic meters (2021 est.)

Carbon dioxide emissions

4.523 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

from coal and metallurgical coke: 0 metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

from petroleum and other liquids: 1.777 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

from consumed natural gas: 2.747 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

Energy consumption per capita

16.156 million Btu/person (2019 est.)