1) Natural geography
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Area > Comparative to US places
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Capital city with population |
Bangui - 706,000 |
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Forested Land |
36.8% |
[64th of 193] |
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Geographic coordinates |
7 00 N, 21 00 E |
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Largest city |
Bangui |
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Largest city population |
553,000 |
[112nd of 174] |
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Largest city with population |
Bangui - 706,000 |
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Population density |
5.53 people per sqkm |
[215th of 256] |
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Population density > people per sq. km |
6.48 people/m² |
[191st of 204] |
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Rural population density > rural population per sq. km of arable land |
126.79 people/km² of arable lan |
[138th of 188] |
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Surface area > sq. km |
622,980 km² |
[42nd of 206] |
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tallest mountains > Mountain |
Mont Ngaoui |
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SOURCES All
CIA World
Factbooks
18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; United Nations
World
Statistics Pocketbook
and
Statistical
Yearbook
, City Population
, CIA World
Factbook, World Gazetteer
,
Official government websites.; FAO; United Nations
World
Statistics Pocketbook
and
Statistical
Yearbook
;
Heal The World Foundation.
;
World Development
Indicators database ; Wikipedia List
of tallest mountains by country
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Central African Republic, Republique
Centrafricaine, central af. r., central afr. rep., central africa, central
african rep.
Environment
|
Areas under protection |
14 |
[100th of 146] |
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Carbon efficiency |
0.17 CO2 emissions/$ GDP |
[133rd of 141] |
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CO2 Emissions |
285.8 |
[158th of 178] |
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Ecological footprint |
1.12 |
[105th of 141] |
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Endangered species protection |
47.4% |
[94th of 141] |
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Forest area > % of land area |
36.53 % of land area |
[70th of 195] |
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Forest area > sq. km |
227,550 km² |
[24th of 195] |
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Known mammal species |
209 |
[35th of 145] |
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Marine fish catch |
0 tons |
[137th of 141] |
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NOx emissions per populated area |
0.61 thousand metric tons/squ |
[30th of 141] |
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Protected area |
8.2 |
[49th of 147] |
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SO2 emissions per populated area |
290 thousand metric tons/squ |
[90th of 141] |
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Threatened species |
14 |
[121st of 158] |
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Threatened species > Mammal |
11 |
[79th of 160] |
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Water > Availability |
37.41 thousand cubic metres |
[13th of 141] |
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Water > Dissolved oxygen concentration |
5.29 mls/litre |
[130th of 141] |
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Water pollution, chemical industry > % of total BOD emissions |
3.99 % |
[92nd of 114] |
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Water pollution, textile industry > % of total BOD emissions |
13.81 % |
[49th of 114] |
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Water pollution, wood industry > % of total BOD emissions |
19.58 % |
[1st of 114] |
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Wildness |
51.5% |
[19th of 141] |
SOURCES World Resources
Institute
; Carbon
Dioxide Information Analysis Center
; World Resources Institute. 2003. Carbon
Emissions from energy use and cement manufacturing, 1850 to 2000. Available
on-line through the Climate Analysis Indicators
Tool
(CAIT) at Washington, DC World Resources Institute; World Wide Fund
for Nature (WWF), Living Planet Report 2000, Gland, Switzerland 2000, and Redefining
Progress
.;
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
,
Report on National Reports Required Under Article VIII, Paragraph 7(a), of the
Convention, Eleventh Meeting of the Conference of the Parties, Gigiri, Kenya,
April 2000; World
Development Indicators database
; FAOSTAT
on-line database ; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report on
Emissions Scenarios
, Data Version 1.1, B1Illustrative Marker Scenario with
model IMAGE;
Jacaranda Atlas
; United Nations
World
Statistics Pocketbook
and
Statistical
Yearbook
; Center for Environmental Systems Research, University of Kassel,
WaterGAP 2.1B, 2001 via ciesin.org; United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP),
Global Environmental Monitoring System
/Water
Quality Monitoring System, with data for an additional 29 countries from
Prescott-Allen,R. The Well being of Nations, Washington, DC Island Press, 2001;
Wild Areas Project (WAP), joint Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and CIESIN
project to map the lastwild places on the earth's surface. via ciesin.org
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Central African Republic, Republique
Centrafricaine, central af. r., central afr. rep., central africa, central
african rep.
2) Human geography
Age distribution
Central African Republic Population Pyramid for 1990
Age and sex distribution for the year 1990
Age and sex distribution for
the year 1995
Age and sex distribution for
the year 2000
Age and sex distribution for
the year 2003
Age and sex distribution for
the year 2005
Age and sex distribution for
the year 2010
Predicted age and sex
distribution for the year 2020
Predicted age and sex
distribution for the year 2050
|
Compensation of employees > % of expense |
53.47 % |
[3rd of 97] |
|
Compensation of employees > current LCU |
34659700000 |
|
|
Economic activity > Both sexes aged 10-14 |
28.57 |
[23rd of 89] |
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Economic activity > Men aged 65 plus |
80.52 |
[5th of 162] |
|
Female economic activity |
67.6% |
[25th of 156] |
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Female economic activity growth |
-3% |
[151st of 156] |
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Firing cost > weeks of wages |
21.7 weeks of wages |
[126th of 164] |
|
force participation rate, female > % of female population ages 15-64 |
70.8 % |
[32nd of 184] |
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force, female > % of total labor force |
46.09 % |
[49th of 184] |
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force, total |
1,825,717 |
[121st of 184] |
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Parental leave > Paid maternity leave |
14 weeks |
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Regulation |
62 |
[28th of 123] |
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Regulation > Employment Conditions |
84 |
[42nd of 123] |
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Regulation > Firing |
50 |
[29th of 123] |
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Rigidity of employment index |
73 |
[6th of 166] |
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Technicians in R&D > per million people |
26.72 per million people |
[31st of 49] |
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Unemployment with secondary education, female > % of female unemployment |
4.4 % |
[64th of 71] |
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Unemployment with secondary education, male > % of male unemployment |
3.8 % |
[63rd of 71] |
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Unemployment with tertiary education, female > % of female unemployment |
1 % |
[64th of 71] |
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Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, paid > US$ |
27,000,000 $ |
[58th of 149] |
SOURCES World Development
Indicators database
; Economic activity rate and economically active
population, by sex, thirteen age groups, 1950-2010 (ILO estimates and
projections) are data from the International Labour Union (ILO). Source details
ILO, Economically Active Population, 1950-2010, fourth edition, diskette
database (Geneva, 1997). The latest set of estimates and projections covering
the period 1950-2010 (4th edition) was released by ILO in December 1996. These
data are updated every five-ten years by ILO and a new set of these data is in
preparation; calculated on the basis of data on the economically active
population and total population from ILO (International Labour Organization).
2002. Estimates and Projections of the Economically Active Population,
1950-2010, 4th ed., rev. 2. Database. Geneva; Wikipedia Parental leave
;
The World Bank Group
The original methodology and data come from The
Regulation of Labor, by Juan Botero, Simeon Djankov, Rafael La Porta, Florencio
Lopez-de-Silanes, and Andrei Shleifer. When using the data, please also cite
this paper as a reference.;
The World Bank Group
The original methodology and data come from The
Regulation of Labor, by Juan Botero, Simeon Djankov, Rafael La Porta, Florencio
Lopez-de-Silanes, and Andrei Shleifer. When using the data, please also cite
this paper as a reference
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Central African Republic, Republique
Centrafricaine, central af. r., central afr. rep., central africa, central
african rep.
People
|
Death rate, crude > per 1,000 people |
21.92 per 1,000 people |
[5th of 195] |
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rate, adult, female > per 1,000 female adults |
662.42 per 1,000 female adults |
[6th of 185] |
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rate, adult, male > per 1,000 male adults |
657.51 per 1,000 male adults |
[7th of 185] |
|
rate, infant > per 1,000 live births |
115 per 1,000 live births |
[13th of 187] |
|
rate, under-5 > per 1,000 |
193 per 1,000 |
[14th of 187] |
SOURCES World Development
Indicators database
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Central African Republic, Republique
Centrafricaine, central af. r., central afr. rep., central africa, central
african rep.
Mortality
|
Death rate, crude > per 1,000 people |
21.92 per 1,000 people |
[5th of 195] |
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rate, adult, female > per 1,000 female adults |
662.42 per 1,000 female adults |
[6th of 185] |
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rate, adult, male > per 1,000 male adults |
657.51 per 1,000 male adults |
[7th of 185] |
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rate, infant > per 1,000 live births |
115 per 1,000 live births |
[13th of 187] |
|
rate, under-5 > per 1,000 |
193 per 1,000 |
[14th of 187] |
SOURCES World Development
Indicators database
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Central African Republic, Republique
Centrafricaine, central af. r., central afr. rep., central africa, central
african rep.
Immigration
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immigrant population > Immigrants as percentage of state population |
1.882 |
[126th of 195] |
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immigrant population > Number of immigrants |
76,000 |
[127th of 195] |
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immigrant population > Percentage of total number of immigrants in the world |
>0.1% |
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Net migration rate |
0 migrant(s)/1,000 populati |
[120th of 225] |
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Refugees |
49,000 |
[42nd of 110] |
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Refugees > Convention on refugees |
4 Sep 1962 d |
|
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Refugees > US applications |
6 |
[47th of 64] |
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Refugees > US applications otherwise closed |
0 |
[35th of 39] |
|
Refugees and internally displaced persons > IDPs |
197,000 |
[13th of 40] |
|
Refugees and internally displaced persons > Refugees (country of
origin)
|
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|
US visa lottery winners |
10 US visa lottery winners |
[132nd of 178] |
SOURCES Wikipedia
List of countries by immigrant population
; All
CIA World
Factbooks
18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; United Nations
World
Statistics Pocketbook
and
Statistical
Yearbook
; United Nations Treaty Collection;
United States Citizenship and Immigration Services
; US Department of State
Bureau of Consular Affairs
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Central African Republic, Republique
Centrafricaine, central af. r., central afr. rep., central africa, central
african rep.
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