> In Congo, a $20-a-month AI plan is 11% of national income per person. There is no recent household survey to set it against what people live on. Claude, OpenAI's API and Gemini are all officially offered. 47% of people use the internet, and Claude use per working-age person is 0.24 times the world average.

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AI access, cost and use · Middle Africa · Africa · data read 1 Oct 2026

# Congo

In Congo, a $20-a-month AI plan is 11% of national income per person. There is no recent household survey to set it against what people live on. Claude, OpenAI's API and Gemini are all officially offered. 47% of people use the internet, and Claude use per working-age person is 0.24 times the world average.

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of the median living standard for a $20 plan

latest survey is from 2011

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of people for whom the plan is over a tenth of their living standard

3of 3

leading services officially offered

Claude · OpenAI · Gemini

47%

of people use the internet

world 74% · 6.5 m people

## The figures · Congo

People

6.5 m

Median living standard

no estimatelatest survey is from 2011

A $20 plan takes

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For whom it is over a tenth

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GNI per person

$2,280plan is 11% of it

Claude use per person

0.24×world average = 1

Notable AI models built here

0

## Officially offered here · 3 of 3

[Run it yourself →](https://themodelindex.org/local/)

Claude · claude.ai app

Yes

OpenAI · API

Yes

Gemini · web app

Yes

From each lab's own published list: Anthropic's Claude.ai countries, OpenAI's API countries and Google's Gemini web app countries. Not listed means not officially served; open-weight models can be run anywhere.

## Against Africa and the world · regional figures are medians or population-weighted

| MEASURE | CONGO | AFRICA | WORLD |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| A $20 plan ÷ median living standard | – | 38% | 9.9% |
| People for whom it is over a tenth | – | 96% | 63% |
| Plan price ÷ GNI per person | 11% | 14% | 2.9% |
| People using the internet | 47% | 40% | 74% |
| Claude use per working-age person | 0.24× | 0.24× | 1.00× |
| Notable AI models built | 0 | 0 | 1,256 |

## What it is used for · Congo against the world

[Report ↗](https://www.anthropic.com/research/economic-index-june-2026-report)

Congo

Work 34%

Personal 35%

Coursework 31%

The world

Work 42%

Personal 41%

Coursework 17%

Share of the world's Claude use

0.02%0.08% of the world's people

Work

34%world 42%

Personal

35%world 41%

Coursework

31%world 17%

Handed over to the model (automation)

53%world 48%

Anthropic Economic Index, May 2026: Claude.ai conversations by country. One product from one lab, so read it as a signal of who is using frontier models, not a census.

## What people make with it · share of conversations

Document or report

20%

Explanation or answer

14%

App or website

7%

Educational material

6%

The most common things people in Congo ask Claude to produce.

## Neighbours · Middle Africa · lightest burden first

| COUNTRY | PEOPLE | ONLINE | $20 PLAN ÷ MEDIAN LIVING STANDARD | OVER A TENTH | CLAUDE USE PER PERSON | OFFICIAL LISTS |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Gabon](https://themodelindex.org/world/gabon/) | 2.6 m | 69% | 10% | 51% | not reported | 3 of 3 |
| [Sao Tome and Principe](https://themodelindex.org/world/sao-tome-and-principe/) | 240k | 59% | 14% | 71% | not reported | 3 of 3 |
| [Equatorial Guinea](https://themodelindex.org/world/equatorial-guinea/) | 1.9 m | 63% | 18% | 78% | not reported | 3 of 3 |
| [Cameroon](https://themodelindex.org/world/cameroon/) | 30 m | 46% | 31% | 93% | 0.38× | 3 of 3 |
| [Angola](https://themodelindex.org/world/angola/) | 39 m | 41% | 36% | 92% | 0.10× | 3 of 3 |
| [Chad](https://themodelindex.org/world/chad/) | 21 m | 13% | 39% | 97% | not reported | 3 of 3 |
| [Central African Republic](https://themodelindex.org/world/central-african-republic/) | 5.5 m | 14% | 65% | 99% | not reported | 3 of 3 |
| [DR Congo](https://themodelindex.org/world/dr-congo/) | 113 m | 20% | no estimate | – | not reported | 3 of 3 |
| Congo | 6.5 m | 47% | no estimate | – | 0.24× | 3 of 3 |

[All countries →](https://themodelindex.org/world/)

## The foundations · Congo against the world

[World Bank ↗](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator)

People using the internet

47%

world 74%

People with electricity

53%

world 92%

Mobile subscriptions per 100 people

96

world 112

Fixed broadband lines per 100 people

1.3

world 20.1

Enrolled in university-level education

10%

world 44%

Research spending, share of GDP

0.38%

world 2.6%

Researchers per million people

127

world 1,652

Secure internet servers per million people

17

world 16,381

The latest World Bank figure for each measure. The tick marks the world figure.

A $20-a-month plan ($240 a year, US list price) against the median household living standard per person in each country. The median is from the latest national household survey (World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform), revalued from 2021 purchasing-power dollars into US dollars at recent prices and official exchange rates, assuming real living standards have not changed since the survey. Some surveys measure income and others consumption, which includes food people grow and housing they own, so this is a living standard, not cash to spare. Countries with no survey since 2015 or no defensible exchange rate are left blank.

[World Bank household surveys ↗](https://pip.worldbank.org/) [Anthropic countries ↗](https://www.anthropic.com/supported-countries) [OpenAI countries ↗](https://platform.openai.com/docs/supported-countries) [Gemini countries ↗](https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/13575153) [Anthropic Economic Index ↗](https://www.anthropic.com/research/economic-index-june-2026-report) [Epoch AI notable models ↗](https://epoch.ai/data/notable-ai-models)

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Source: https://themodelindex.org/world/congo/ · The Model Index · data as of 2026-10-01