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Population in the Central African Republic compared to Italy: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of the Central African Republic was 5,330,690 in 2024 vs 58,986,023 people in Italy in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Central African Republic's population is 5,662,456 people compared to 58,790,597 in Italy.

Population statistics:

  • Italy's population is 10.4 times bigger than the Central African Republic's.
  • The Central African Republic is ranked the 117th most populous country in the world, while Italy is the 25th.
  • The countries together account for 0.78% of the world: 0.07% for the Central African Republic vs 0.71% for Italy.
  • For the last 10 years, the Central African Republic has had an average growth rate of +1.27% per year vs -0.2% in Italy.
  • Since 2005, the population of the Central African Republic has increased from 4.29M people to 5.66M (32% growth), while Italy has grown from 58.2M to 58.8M (1.07% growth).
  • The Central African Republic is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 18.8M people, while Italy's population already peaked in 2014 at 60.3M people and is projected to decrease to 35.2M people by 2100.

Central African Republic vs Italy: live population counter

CAR Italy
Current population
5662456
58790597
Population rank 117/197 25/197
Percent of world population 0.07% 0.71%
One net population change
2.95 minutes
1.18 hours
One birth every
2.2 minutes
1.39 minutes
One death every
10.8 minutes
47.7 seconds
One migration net change every
34.2 minutes
5.52 minutes
Annual migration change -15,357 +95,246
Daily growth/decline +488 -20
Annual growth/decline +178,269 -7,452
Annual growth/decline rate +3.46% -0.01%
Population growth rate rank 10/197 166/197

the Central African Republic and Italy: population history and growth rate by year chart

Central African Republic
Population

Growth rate
Italy
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
CAR Italy CAR Italy
1960 1,702,346 50,199,700 - -
1961 1,734,580 50,536,350 1.89% 0.67%
1962 1,768,115 50,879,450 1.93% 0.68%
1963 1,803,063 51,252,000 1.98% 0.73%
1964 1,839,583 51,675,350 2.03% 0.83%
1965 1,877,854 52,112,350 2.08% 0.85%
1966 1,918,082 52,519,000 2.14% 0.78%
1967 1,960,444 52,900,500 2.21% 0.73%
1968 2,005,100 53,235,750 2.28% 0.63%
1969 2,051,515 53,537,950 2.31% 0.57%
1970 2,097,505 53,821,850 2.24% 0.53%
1971 2,141,450 54,073,490 2.1% 0.47%
1972 2,183,769 54,381,345 1.98% 0.57%
1973 2,226,008 54,751,406 1.93% 0.68%
1974 2,269,338 55,110,868 1.95% 0.66%
1975 2,313,916 55,441,001 1.96% 0.6%
1976 2,348,566 55,718,260 1.5% 0.5%
1977 2,372,930 55,955,411 1.04% 0.43%
1978 2,397,961 56,155,143 1.05% 0.36%
1979 2,423,794 56,317,749 1.08% 0.29%
1980 2,450,535 56,433,883 1.1% 0.21%
1981 2,478,402 56,501,675 1.14% 0.12%
1982 2,507,375 56,543,548 1.17% 0.07%
1983 2,537,399 56,564,074 1.2% 0.04%
1984 2,568,610 56,576,718 1.23% 0.02%
1985 2,600,932 56,593,071 1.26% 0.03%
1986 2,634,258 56,596,155 1.28% 0.005%
1987 2,669,155 56,601,931 1.32% 0.01%
1988 2,713,965 56,629,288 1.68% 0.05%
1989 2,783,970 56,671,781 2.58% 0.08%
1990 2,871,910 56,719,240 3.16% 0.08%
1991 2,963,191 56,758,521 3.18% 0.07%
1992 3,058,831 56,797,087 3.23% 0.07%
1993 3,157,839 56,831,821 3.24% 0.06%
1994 3,257,954 56,843,400 3.17% 0.02%
1995 3,348,052 56,844,303 2.77% 0.002%
1996 3,435,965 56,860,281 2.63% 0.03%
1997 3,531,700 56,890,372 2.79% 0.05%
1998 3,628,827 56,906,744 2.75% 0.03%
1999 3,729,450 56,916,317 2.77% 0.02%
2000 3,833,416 56,942,108 2.79% 0.05%
2001 3,919,487 56,976,981 2.25% 0.06%
2002 4,006,077 57,089,824 2.21% 0.2%
2003 4,103,086 57,399,184 2.42% 0.54%
2004 4,192,826 57,828,179 2.19% 0.75%
2005 4,288,810 58,166,682 2.29% 0.59%
2006 4,377,579 58,399,861 2.07% 0.4%
2007 4,462,770 58,756,247 1.95% 0.61%
2008 4,558,984 59,211,181 2.16% 0.77%
2009 4,529,047 59,555,454 -0.66% 0.58%
2010 4,492,995 59,819,407 -0.8% 0.44%
2011 4,565,021 60,026,841 1.6% 0.35%
2012 4,610,848 60,191,247 1% 0.27%
2013 4,642,419 60,311,613 0.68% 0.2%
2014 4,623,182 60,320,707 -0.41% 0.02%
2015 4,629,320 60,229,605 0.13% -0.15%
2016 4,713,663 60,115,223 1.82% -0.19%
2017 4,793,511 60,002,252 1.69% -0.19%
2018 4,878,657 60,148,658 1.78% 0.24%
2019 4,944,703 59,729,081 1.35% -0.7%
2020 5,026,628 59,438,851 1.66% -0.49%
2021 5,112,100 59,133,173 1.7% -0.51%
2022 5,098,039 59,013,667 -0.28% -0.2%
2023 5,152,421 58,993,475 1.07% -0.03%
2024 5,330,690 58,986,023 3.46% -0.01%
2025 5,513,285 58,790,597 3.43% -0.33%
2026 5,698,988 58,571,823 3.37% -0.37%
2027 5,888,126 58,335,864 3.32% -0.4%
2028 6,082,465 58,094,373 3.3% -0.41%
2029 6,279,729 57,851,042 3.24% -0.42%
2030 6,478,251 57,597,622 3.16% -0.44%
2031 6,680,052 57,333,277 3.12% -0.46%
2032 6,884,143 57,071,235 3.06% -0.46%
2033 7,089,444 56,812,747 2.98% -0.45%
2034 7,296,249 56,548,816 2.92% -0.46%
2035 7,502,585 56,279,536 2.83% -0.48%
2036 7,707,565 56,009,844 2.73% -0.48%
2037 7,911,635 55,737,477 2.65% -0.49%
2038 8,115,865 55,460,735 2.58% -0.5%
2039 8,321,550 55,177,508 2.53% -0.51%
2040 8,526,454 54,889,107 2.46% -0.52%
2041 8,729,074 54,601,628 2.38% -0.52%
2042 8,931,165 54,307,412 2.32% -0.54%
2043 9,134,993 53,997,106 2.28% -0.57%
2044 9,341,761 53,679,603 2.26% -0.59%
2045 9,550,893 53,357,669 2.24% -0.6%
2046 9,761,447 53,025,288 2.2% -0.62%
2047 9,972,759 52,680,150 2.16% -0.65%
2048 10,186,021 52,324,241 2.14% -0.68%
2049 10,400,624 51,959,050 2.11% -0.7%
2050 10,616,749 51,579,060 2.08% -0.73%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of the Central African Republic increased by 340,510 people (a 7.94% growth), while Italy gained 2,062,923 people (a 3.55% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, the Central African Republic gained 1,033,136 (a 22.3% growth), while Italy's population decreased by -1,439,008 (a 2.39% decline).

The Central African Republic was ranked 118th most populous country in 2005 and is 117th in 2025. Italy was ranked 23rd in 2005 and ranked 25th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) the Central African Republic's population will grow by 87.5% to 10,616,749 people with a rank change from 117th to 96th. The population of Italy will decrease by 12.3% to 51,579,060 people and rank change from 25th to 40th.

Biggest cities by population

CAR
City Population
Bangui 889K
Berberati 76.9K
Bria 35.2K
Italy
City Population
Rome 2.75M
Milan 1.35M
Naples 913K
Turin 842K
Palermo 630K
Genoa 559K
Bologna 388K
Florence 361K
Bari 316K
Catania 312K

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