World population/Central African Republic
Africa
Population of Central African Republic
5,698,990
Growing by 0.01 people every second
#118
world rank
0.07%
of world population
+3.32%
yearly change
+189,136
people this year
254,783
births a year
52,066
deaths a year
How the figure for Central African Republic is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Central African Republic at 5,698,990 on 1 July 2026, and projects 5,888,126 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.01 people added every second.
That places Central African Republic at number 118 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.07 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 58 entries in Africa.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 254,783 births and 52,066 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.
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