Central African Republic
- Capital
- Bangui
- Region
- Middle Africa
- Population, 2025
- 5.5 million
- Currency
- XAF
- Area
- 622,984 km²
Livability
The same seven domains as for cities, scored at country level; safety falls back to the homicide rate where Numbeo has no survey.
—not enough data
- Purchasing power25%No data
- Safety20%20
- Health care15%No data
- Climate10%No data
- Air quality10%89
- Connectivity10%No data
- Cost10%No data
How each domain is scored
- Purchasing power, 25%
- What a local net salary buys against local prices, as a percentile.
- Safety, 20%
- Numbeo safety index for the city, or for its country when the city has no survey.
- Health care, 15%
- Numbeo health care index, city first, then country.
- Climate, 10%
- Numbeo climate index where surveyed, otherwise a comfort score from NASA climate normals.
- Air quality, 10%
- 30-day mean US AQI on a 0-100 scale: 100 at AQI 25 or cleaner, 0 at 150 or worse.
- Connectivity, 10%
- Percentile of median fixed broadband download speed, city first, then country.
- Cost, 10%
- Cheaper places score higher: the percentile of the cost-of-living plus rent index, inverted.
What it costs
Averages over the country’s cities, weighted by population. New York = 100.
Cost of living index
—
New York = 100, rent excluded
Rent index
25.5
New York = 100
Purchasing power
—
New York = 100
One person
—
A month, rent included
Net salary
—
Average, a month after tax
Rent, one bedroom in the centre
$1,414
A month
Economy
World Bank development indicators; each figure is the latest year with data.
GDP per person
$556
2025
Growth
+4.5%
2025
Unemployment
6.3%
2025
Inflation
1.0%
2025
Life expectancy
57.7 years
2024
Internet users
14%
2024
Taxes
Headline rates side by side from three references, with the source of each.
- Top income tax rate
- 50%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 30%
- SourceWikipedia
- VAT or sales tax
- 19%
- SourceTrading Economics
Headline statutory rates as of Sep 2026; brackets, allowances and regional taxes change what a given person pays.
Safety and internet
Numbeo’s crime survey, the World Bank homicide series and the Speedtest Global Index.
Safety
- Safety indexNumbeo, higher is safer
- —
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- —
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2016
- 20.1
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median
- —
- Mobile downloadMbps, median
- —
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- —
Cities in Central African Republic
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Bangui | — | — | $1,414 | — | — | 812.4K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 2Bimbo | — | — | — | — | — | 348.8K | Low confidence |
| 3Bégoua | — | — | — | — | — | 264.1K | Low confidence |
| 4Carnot | — | — | — | — | — | 129K | Low confidence |
| 5Berbérati | — | — | — | — | — | 103.7K | Low confidence |