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Central African Republic

5,513,282

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+182.59K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+43.8%from 3.83M
Life expectancy57.7 years2024
Fertility rate5.95births per woman · 2024
Urban population44.6%2025
RegionSub-Saharan Africa Low income

A country at every age

How Central African Republic is shaped by age.

A younger population means schools, jobs, and future families will shape the decades ahead.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1448.7%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6449.1%Working-age population
Ages 65+2.2%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate46.2births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate9.4deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+36.8births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-14.69Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Central African Republic look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 10.62M in 2050—99.2% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 20245.33M
  2. 205010.62M
  3. 210018.78M
Median age in 205019.2years
Births in 2050304Kduring the year
Deaths in 205070.4Kduring the year
Life expectancy63.4years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 19601.7M
  2. 19702.1M
  3. 19802.45M
  4. 19902.87M
  5. 20003.83M
  6. 20104.49M
  7. 20205.03M
  8. 20255.51M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/22/2026

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