In 2008, the DRC was ranked as the
poorest country in the world with real
GDP per capita of US$95 (in real 2000
terms), or per capita of US$ 25 cents a
day (Figure 1).
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Since the time of
independence in 1960, per capita income
in real dollars has plummeted; in the year
2008 per capita income was less than
one-third of its value in 1960, in constant
terms.
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In fact, the DRC registered the
largest drop in per capita income of all
the countries for which data is available
in the World Bank’s World Develo
Indicators from 1960 to 2008.