NXS-GRX-CAF · Middle Africa

Central African Republic

Country risk profile on The Global Risks Index: hazard and threat exposure, vulnerability, macro-financial fragility, coping capacity and systemic coupling, with intervals, sources and corrections on every value.

Page GRX-CAFEdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO CAF / CFStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
FIG 1 · Central African Republic in Middle Africa
Loading the map
FijiUnited Republic of TanzaniaUnited States of AmericaKazakhstanUzbekistanIndonesiaArgentinaChileDemocratic Republic of the CongoSomaliaKenyaSudanChadHaitiDominican RepublicRussian FederationBahamasSouth AfricaLesothoUruguayBrazilBolivia (Plurinational State of)PeruColombiaPanamaVenezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)GuyanaSurinameFranceEcuadorJamaicaCubaZimbabweBotswanaNamibiaSenegalMaliMauritaniaBeninNigerNigeriaCameroonTogoGhanaCôte d’IvoireGuineaGuinea-BissauLiberiaSierra LeoneBurkina FasoCentral African RepublicCongoGabonEquatorial GuineaZambiaMalawiMozambiqueEswatiniAngolaBurundiIsraelLebanonMadagascarState of PalestineGambiaTunisiaAlgeriaJordanUnited Arab EmiratesQatarKuwaitIraqOmanCambodiaThailandLao People’s Democratic RepublicMyanmarViet NamDemocratic People’s Republic of KoreaRepublic of KoreaIndiaBangladeshBhutanNepalPakistanAfghanistanTajikistanKyrgyzstanTurkmenistanIran (Islamic Republic of)Syrian Arab RepublicArmeniaBulgariaGreeceTürkiyeAlbaniaPortugalSpainAustraliaSri LankaChinaItalyAzerbaijanGeorgiaPhilippinesMalaysiaBrunei DarussalamEritreaParaguayYemenSaudi ArabiaCyprusMoroccoEgyptLibyaEthiopiaDjiboutiUgandaRwandaNorth MacedoniaTrinidad and TobagoSouth SudanAntigua and BarbudaBahrainBarbadosComorosCabo VerdeDominicaGrenadaSaint Kitts and NevisSaint LuciaMaldivesMaltaMauritiusSingaporeSao Tome and PrincipeSeychellesSaint Vincent and the Grenadines
Equal Earth · Natural Earth 1:110m · locatorValues when released
Select a neighbouring profile to open it. Boundaries are shown at 1:110m for location only and take no position on any boundary or status.
20
domain indices
443
country indicators
14
hazard domains
8
sub-regional peers
02Humanitarian data

Central African Republic in humanitarian data

Source observations from the Humanitarian Data Exchange, each with its reference date, provider and licence. They are not index values.

Poverty headcount · 2019-12-31

84.1%

of people in multidimensional poverty. Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative · Public Domain / No restrictions (CC0).

People in need · 2026-12-31

10,612,471

humanitarian need. OCHA Humanitarian Programme Cycle Tools (HPC Tools) · Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY-IGO).

Refugees hosted · 2025-12-31

63,761

refugees and asylum-seekers in the country. UNHCR – The UN Refugee Agency · Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY-IGO).

Refugees from the country · 2025-12-31

760,437

refugees and asylum-seekers abroad, most in Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Chad. UNHCR – The UN Refugee Agency · Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY-IGO).

Humanitarian funding · 2025-12-31

US$ 135 m

received against US$ 326 m required. OCHA Financial Tracking System (FTS) · Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY-IGO).

Rainfall

64 units

with rainfall against the long-term average, on the unit pages. WFP – World Food Programme · Creative Commons Attribution International (CC BY).

Food prices · 2026-01-14

40 markets

Meat (beef): 3500 XAF per KG. WFP – World Food Programme · Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY-IGO).

03Areas

The full profile of Central African Republic, area by area

Fourteen areas from macroeconomy to frontier technology, and the planned innovation index. Each card says whether its sources are cleared, shows the mix, and gives two actions: what the area needs, and a scenario you can run now on open data.

How to readAdmitted: usableUnder legal review: waitingProhibited: excludedNot in the register: not yet assessedAcross the 14 areas: 113 admitted · 63 under legal review · 23 prohibited · 170 not in the register
Partly admitted14 indicators · 2 composites

Macroeconomy and external position

Output, prices, external balance and reserves, monetary conditions and labour, with intervals and the change since the last edition.

GDP
US$ 3.1 billion 2025
GDP per person
US$ 556 2025
GDP growth
4.5% 2025
4 admitted · 4 under legal review · 1 not in the register
Partly admitted37 indicators · 7 composites

Fiscal position and public debt

Debt path fan charts, gross financing needs, debt service and fiscal stress, with the assumptions published.

Government revenue
9.2% 2021
Government expense
11.7% 2021
External debt
35.9% 2024
7 admitted · 13 under legal review · 8 not in the register
Partly admitted32 indicators · 7 composites

Financial system

Banking-system capital and liquidity, credit growth, asset prices and contagion on the dependency network.

Non-performing loans
16.2% 2023
Bank capital to assets
11.1% 2023
9 admitted · 4 under legal review · 1 prohibited · 8 not in the register
Partly admitted18 indicators · 5 composites

Trade, economic structure and supply chains

Trade openness and concentration, commodity dependence and supply-chain exposure by sector.

Trade
52.9% 2025
Exports
19.3% 2025
Fuel exports
0% 2024
8 admitted · 6 under legal review · 5 not in the register
Partly admitted13 indicators · 5 composites

Water

Water stress, drought, access and quality, coupled to food, energy and health in the water, energy, food, health and biodiversity nexus.

Safely managed drinking water
6.2% 2024
Water stress
0.3% 2022
Renewable internal freshwater per person
27,658 m³ 2022
3 admitted · 2 under legal review · 2 prohibited · 4 not in the register
Partly admitted23 indicators · 6 composites

Energy

Supply security, import dependence, grid reliability, transition exposure and access.

Access to electricity
18.2% 2024
Renewable energy
90.9% 2022
7 admitted · 5 under legal review · 1 prohibited · 18 not in the register
Partly admitted23 indicators · 6 composites

Food systems

Availability, access, prices and nutrition, and the drivers from water, energy, trade and conflict.

Undernourishment
29.8% 2024
Cereal yield
788 2024
Stunting, under 5
37.9% 2022
14 admitted · 4 under legal review · 2 not in the register
Partly admitted31 indicators · 6 composites

Health security

Health-system capacity, outbreak preparedness, disease burden and the health effects of other systems.

Life expectancy
57.7 years 2024
Under-5 mortality
89.7 2024
Health spending
10.7% 2023
4 admitted · 2 under legal review · 15 prohibited · 8 not in the register
Partly admitted22 indicators · 6 composites

Environment and biodiversity

Ecosystem condition, biodiversity pressure, land and ocean change and nature dependence of the economy.

Forest area
72.5% 2024
Protected areas
14.8% 2025
PM2.5 air pollution
33.3 µg/m³ 2023
9 admitted · 5 under legal review · 1 prohibited · 22 not in the register
Partly admitted31 indicators · 8 composites

Climate: physical and transition

Chronic and acute physical risk under scenarios, and transition exposure of the economy and the public balance sheet.

CO₂ emissions per person
0.1 t CO₂e 2024
Greenhouse gas emissions
13.4 Mt CO₂e 2024
People below 5 m elevation
0% 2015
10 admitted · 7 under legal review · 24 not in the register
Partly admitted39 indicators · 10 composites

Conflict, governance and security

Violence and its spillovers, institutional quality, rule of law and state capacity.

Intentional homicides
20.1 2016
9 admitted · 4 under legal review · 1 prohibited · 14 not in the register
Partly admitted27 indicators · 10 composites

Frontier technology and innovation

Frontier technology risk and capacity side by side: AI, compute, semiconductors, quantum, space, biotech, cyber resilience and digital infrastructure, with the innovation index below.

High-technology exports
8.3% 2024
Internet users
13.8% 2024
Fixed broadband subscriptions
0 2022
9 admitted · 5 under legal review · 1 prohibited · 26 not in the register
Partly admitted18 indicators · 5 composites

Coping capacity and disaster finance

Preparedness, response and recovery capacity, risk financing and social protection.

9 admitted · 1 under legal review · 1 prohibited · 18 not in the register
Partly admitted46 indicators · 11 composites

Society, demography and mobility

Human development, inequality, ageing, urbanisation and displacement.

Population
5.5 million 2025
Urban population
44.5% 2025
Poverty at $3.00 a day
71.6% 2021
11 admitted · 1 under legal review · 12 not in the register
Planned12 planned indicators

Innovation index

Research, patents, talent, compute, digital infrastructure and capital for Central African Republic, read beside frontier technology risk. Not in Indicator Standard yet; each indicator needs its source admitted.

04Quote

Central African Republic composite risk

Value, change since the previous edition, 90% interval and class probability; the history and the published indicators follow.

NXS-GRX-CAF · CRI · Middle Africa · 0–10 scale
Central African Republic composite risk
–
Values publish with the edition; the interval, class and change appear here.
Previous edition
–
Range since 2016
–
Coupled composite
–
Coupling score S
–
Pulse, latest week
–
Outlook, 12 months
–
Method
Indicator Standard 1.0 · NXS-GRX 2026
Draws
1,000
Central African Republic composite risk, by edition

No released values yet. The first edition draws the history here with its interval band and class bounds.

The line is the point value by edition; the band is the 90% interval; dashed lines are the class bounds at 2, 3.5, 5 and 6.5.

Central African Republic: published indicators: waiting for the Foundry indicator widget. Nothing shown here is live data until it mounts. Claim ceiling INTEGRATED.

05Profile

Four pillars, composite and coupled composite

The composite is shown only with its four pillars and twenty domain indices beside it; each value carries a 90% interval and a class with its probability.

InstrumentValueChangeChange %90% intervalClass · probabilityTrendRange
NXS-GRX Composite RiskNXS-GRX-CAF · CRI–––––
NXS-GRX Coupled RiskNXS-GRX-CAF · CPL–––––
Hazard and threat exposureNXS-GRX-CAF · HTE–––––
Human and systems vulnerabilityNXS-GRX-CAF · VUL–––––
Macro-financial and structural fragilityNXS-GRX-CAF · MSF–––––
Lack of coping and adaptive capacityNXS-GRX-CAF · LCC–––––
Very low0.0 to < 2.0
Low2.0 to < 3.5
Medium3.5 to < 5.0
High5.0 to < 6.5
Very high6.5 to 10.0
07Coupling

How Central African Republic is coupled to the world

Not yet estimated. Coupling strengths through trade and inputs, finance and debt, energy, food trade, infrastructure and information are ◆ ESTIMATED per edition with their method and references; the coupled composite is reported beside the standalone one.
09Peers

Profiles in Middle Africa

A peer group is a reading context, not a ranking; profiles are listed by name.

Explore Central African Republic

Indices, hazards, the map and the data behind every value.

The Global Risks Index

Indicators · sources · country profiles

Not for profit

Our articles, maps and twins are free to read and free to republish. Readers and partners keep it that way.

Support our work

Who funds us

The Index is a not-for-profit institution. To ask who funds a piece of work, use the funding questions form.

Independence

Editors and the expert reviewers named on each article decide what we publish. Funders and partners do not review or approve articles before publication.

Licence

Articles: CC BY 4.0. Figures, maps, twins and data: CC BY 4.0. Other uses: ask through the permissions form.