Diplomatic briefing
Embassy of India, Kinshasa
EmbassyCongo [Democratic Republic] · Ambassador: Mr. V. Venkataraman
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In short
India’s embassy in Congo [Democratic Republic] records a reported community of 25,000 and a UN voting alignment with India of 61%. Led by Mr. V. Venkataraman, ambassador.
Overseas Indians
Medium confidence25,000
persons · as of Jan 2026
Source· retrieved 1 day ago
Population of Overseas Indians
Source: Ministry of External Affairs, India
Where: row "Congo (Democratic Republic)"
“PIOs 3,000 + NRIs 22,000 = 25,000”
Published: undated · Read: 7 October 2026
MEA publishes no methodology for these estimates and told a Parliamentary committee it holds "no authentic data". The page also repeats some countries from an older vintage with the PIO/NRI columns swapped; the first occurrence is used here.
UN votes matching India’s
61%
share of UNGA votes matching India’s · UNGA session 78
Source· retrieved 12 hours ago
United Nations General Assembly Voting Data — Ideal Point Estimates
Source: Bailey, Strezhnev & Voeten — Harvard Dataverse
Where: row “Congo - Kinshasa”, session 78, IndiaAgree over 62 votes
Published: undated · Read: 8 October 2026
UN General Assembly Voting Data (v39), non-commercial licence. The share is the dataset’s own IndiaAgree column — roll-call votes on which this country and India voted the same way, as the dataset defines agreement — not our calculation. Independent of MEA.
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The relationship, in figures
People
Indian community in Congo [Democratic Republic]persons · as stated in the brief25,000
Bilateral Brief — Congo [Democratic Republic]
Source: Ministry of External Affairs, India
Where: “VI - Indian Community in DRC:” section
“The Indian diaspora is among the largest expats community in DRC with around 25,000 Indian nationals / PIOs.”
Published: undated · Read: 8 October 2026
Read from the briefing by a language model. The quoted sentence was verified by string matching against the extracted PDF text before this figure was accepted.
MEA’s bilateral brief states the same figure.
Diplomacy
Most recent high-level visityear of the visit · as stated in the brief2025
Bilateral Brief — Congo [Democratic Republic]
Source: Ministry of External Affairs, India
Where: “Parliamentary visits from India to DRC:” section
“An all-party Indian Parliamentary delegation visited Kinshasa from 24-28 May 2025 as part of the diplomatic outreach initiative following ‘Operation Sindoor’.”
Published: undated · Read: 8 October 2026
Read from the briefing by a language model. The quoted sentence was verified by string matching against the extracted PDF text before this figure was accepted.
Agreements on record (0)
MEA Treaties DatabaseMEA's treaties database returns no agreements recorded against this country.
The briefing
MEA publishes a bilateral brief — 38 sections, 15,872 characters of extractable text. Sections include: I - Political Relations: · Bilateral Institutional Mechanism: · Year · Export to DRC · Import from · Figures in USD Million.
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