International Rankings of Central African Republic 2024, country comparisons

This table lists the international rankings of Central African Republic, in all categories that are published in the CIA World Factbook, and those that we derived from them. Additional international rankings of Central African Republic, can be found in the main country ranks menu.
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Ranked Data	Rank	Value	Year
Communications
Broadband - fixed subscriptions - subscriptions per 100 inhabitants	64	0.01	2019
Broadband - fixed subscriptions - total	196	499	2019
Internet users - percent of population	109	11.00 %	2021
Internet users - total	163	605000	2021
Telephones - fixed lines - total subscriptions	208	2000	2021
Telephones - mobile cellular - subscriptions per 100 inhabitants	101	34.00	2021
Telephones - mobile cellular - total subscriptions	155	1.800 million	2021
Economy
Budget - expenditures	191	385.000 million US Dollars	2019
Budget - revenues	188	418.000 million US Dollars	2019
Budget surplus (+) or deficit (-)	39	0.90 % of GDP	N/A
Current account balance	98	163.000 million US Dollars	2017
Debt - external	173	779.900 million US Dollars	2017
Exchange rates	28	554.53	N/A
Exports	207	113.700 million US Dollars	2017
GDP (official exchange rate)	192	1.937 billion US Dollars	2017
GDP - composition by end use - exports of goods and services	170	12.00 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by end use - government consumption	125	8.50 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by end use - household consumption	8	95.30 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by end use - imports of goods and services	46	29.50 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by end use - investment in fixed capital	123	13.70 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by sector of origin - agriculture	6	43.20 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by sector of origin - industry	137	16.00 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by sector of origin - services	170	40.80 % of GDP	2017
Gini Index coefficient - distribution of family income	4	56 %	2008
Household income or consumption by percentage share - highest 10%	41	33.00 % share of income accruing to lowest and highest 10% of population	2003
Household income or consumption by percentage share - lowest 10%	30	2.10 % share of income accruing to lowest and highest 10% of population	N/A
Imports	207	393.100 million US Dollars	2017
Industrial production growth rate	149	0.24 %	2021
Inflation rate (consumer prices)	78	4.26 %	2021
Labor force	125	2.015 million US Dollars	2021
Population below poverty line	9	62 %	2008
Public debt	94	52.90 % of GDP	2017
Real GDP (purchasing power parity)	182	4.483 billion US Dollars	2019
Real GDP growth rate	167	0.90 %	2021
Real GDP per capita	171	800 US Dollars	2021
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold	173	350.305 million US Dollars	2019
Taxes and other revenues	189	8.71 % of GDP	N/A
Unemployment rate	113	6.57 %	2021
Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24) - female	110	13.10 %	N/A
Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24) - male	115	10.60 %	N/A
Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24) - total	107	11.80 %	2021
Energy
Carbon dioxide emissions - from petroleum and other liquids	194	285000 metric tonnes of CO2	2019
Carbon dioxide emissions - total	195	285000	2019
Coal - proven reserves	72	3.000 million metric tons	2019
Electricity - consumption	189	140.440 million kWh	2019
Electricity - installed generating capacity	195	38000 kWh	2020
Electricity - transmission/distribution losses	189	10.500 million kWh	2019
Electricity access - electrification - rural areas	84	2	2021
Electricity access - electrification - total population	78	16	2021
Electricity access - electrification - urban areas	65	35	2021
Electricity access - population without electricity	21	5.000 million	2020
Electricity generation sources - fossil fuels	158	0.70 %	2020
Electricity generation sources - hydroelectricity	5	99.30 %	2020
Energy consumption per capita	192	1.121 million Btu/person	2019
Petroleum - refined petroleum consumption	183	2000 bbl/day	2019
Refined petroleum products - imports	186	2799 bbl/day	2015
Environment
Air pollutants - methane emissions	61	22 megatons	2020
Air pollutants - particulate matter emissions	49	27 micrograms per cubic meter	2019
Land use - agricultural land	176	8	2018
Land use - arable land	136	3	2018
Land use - forest	83	36	2018
Land use - permanent pasture	131	5	2018
Revenue from forest resources	5	9 % of GDP	2018
Total renewable water resources	58	141.000 billion cubic meters	2020
Total water withdrawal - agricultural	142	400000 cubic meters	2017
Total water withdrawal - industrial	95	10.000 million cubic meters	2020
Total water withdrawal - municipal	107	60.000 million cubic meters	2020
Urbanization - rate of urbanization	34	3.32	N/A
Urbanization - urban population	132	44	2023
Geography
Area - land	47	622984 sq km	N/A
Area - total	49	622984 sq km	N/A
Elevation - highest point	119	1410 meters	N/A
Elevation - lowest point	12	335 meters	N/A
Elevation - mean elevation	56	635 meters	N/A
Irrigated land	151	10 sq km	2012
Land boundaries - total	27	5920 km	N/A
Land use - agricultural land	176	8	2018
Land use - arable land	136	3	2018
Land use - forest	83	36	2018
Land use - permanent pasture	131	5	2018
Population Density	218	8.91 Persons per sq km	N/A
Military
Military expenditures	31	2 % of GDP	2023
Population
Alcohol consumption per capita - beer	118	1 liters of pure alcohol	2019
Alcohol consumption per capita - total	139	1 liters of pure alcohol	2019
Birth rate	22	32.40 births/1,000 population	2023
Child marriage - men married by age 18	3	17	2019
Child marriage - women married by age 15	1	26	N/A
Child marriage - women married by age 18	1	61	N/A
Children under the age of 5 years underweight	11	21 %	2019
Contraceptive prevalence rate	119	17.80 %	2019
Current health expenditure	28	9 % of GDP	2020
Currently married women (ages 15-49)	38	65 %	2023
Death rate	19	11.50 deaths/1,000 population	2023
Dependency ratios - elderly dependency ratio	142	5.10 %	N/A
Dependency ratios - potential support ratio	20	19.70 %	2021
Dependency ratios - total dependency ratio	2	102.80 %	N/A
Dependency ratios - youth dependency ratio	2	97.70 %	N/A
Drinking water source - improved	59	84 % of population	N/A
Drinking water source - rural	6	53 % of population	N/A
Drinking water source - total	6	37 % of population	2020
Drinking water source - unimproved	6	16 % of population	N/A
Education expenditures	64	2 % of GDP	2020
Gross reproduction rate	21	1.97 %	2023
Infant mortality rate - female	2	75.60 deaths/1,000 live births	N/A
Infant mortality rate - male	3	87.70 deaths/1,000 live births	N/A
Infant mortality rate - total	3	81.70 deaths/1,000 live births	2023
Life expectancy at birth - female	147	57 years	N/A
Life expectancy at birth - male	147	55 years	N/A
Life expectancy at birth - total population	147	56 years	2023
Literacy - definition	2	15	N/A
Literacy - female	118	26 %	2020
Literacy - male	95	49 %	N/A
Literacy - total population	105	38 %	N/A
Maternal mortality ratio	4	835.00 deaths/100,000 live births	2020
Median age - female	145	21 years	N/A
Median age - male	149	20 years	N/A
Median age - total	138	20 years	2023
Net migration rate	88	3.20 migrant(s)/1,000 population	N/A
Obesity - adult prevalence rate	120	7.50 %	2016
Physicians density	154	0.07 physicians/1,000 population	2018
Population	119	5.552 million	2023
Population growth rate	47	1.77 %	2023
Sanitation facility access - improved	90	54 % of population	N/A
Sanitation facility access - rural	5	88 % of population	N/A
Sanitation facility access - total	7	70 % of population	2020
Sanitation facility access - unimproved	5	46 % of population	N/A
Sex ratio - 0-14 years	11	1.05 male(s)/female	N/A
Sex ratio - 15-64 years	26	0.97 male(s)/female	N/A
Sex ratio - 65 years and over	36	0.77 male(s)/female	N/A
Sex ratio - at birth	11	1.03 male(s)/female	N/A
Sex ratio - total population	20	0.99 male(s)/female	N/A
Total fertility rate	26	3.99 children born/woman	2023
Urbanization - rate of urbanization	34	3.32	N/A
Urbanization - urban population	132	44	2023
Transportation
Airports	86	43	2024
National air transport system - annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers	146	46364	2015
National air transport system - inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers	100	2.00	N/A
National air transport system - number of registered air carriers	26	2	2020
Roadways - paved	103	700 km	2018
Roadways - total	66	24000 km	2018
Waterways	37	2800 km	2011

*CALCULATED FIGURES are those that we calculated from data presented by the CIA World Factbook. For example, we calculated population density by dividing the total population by the land area, the electricity consumption per capita by dividing electricity consumption by the total population, etc.

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