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The following excerpt from the <\/span>World Bank Group<\/span><\/a> gives an overview of Congo.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The Republic of Congo (Congo-Brazzaville), located in Central Africa, covers 342,000 km<\/span>2<\/span>. Its population of 5.7 million people is largely young, with 47% being under age 18. More than half of the population lives in its two main cities \u2014 Brazzaville and Pointe-Noire. The country is one of the least densely populated in Africa, with 14.8 inhabitants per square kilometer.\u00a0\u2026 With a human capital index (HCI) of 0.42, the Republic of Congo is behind the average of 0.48 for its peers Low Middle-Income Countries (LMICs). The country has made modest improvements in health and education on the Human Development Index (HDI). Infant mortality remains high at a rate of 32 deaths per 1,000 live births.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”TEXT – BLOCK 2 ” _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||1em||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n The <\/span>Global Health Expenditure Database<\/a> provides the following information on health financing.<\/p>\n Several fluctuations describe the period between 2012 and 2021.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”TEXT – BLOCK 3″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||1em||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n With government spending on health of US$ 39 per capita, Congo ranks 23 on this indicator among African Union members. Moreover, its <\/span>UHC service coverage index<\/span><\/a> is 41, which is the same as for Burundi, Mali and Sierra Leone. The <\/span>Gini index<\/span><\/a>, last captured in 2011, was 48.9.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”TEXT – BLOCK 4 ” _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||1em||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n\n
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