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ISO 3166
CF
Main language + region
sg-CF
Currency
XAF · Central African CFA Franc
Region
not grouped

Central African Republic

Central African Republic has 5.7M people, and 778.8K of them are online. Sango is the most widely spoken language at 49%, one of 3 languages CLDR lists here. Sango and French are official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to sg-CF.

SangoFrench

Market summary

Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.

People online

778.8K

0%world median 81%100%

14% of 5.7M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.

Income per person

$556

Higher than 1% of 213 territories

GDP per capita in current US dollars, World Bank Open Data, most recent reported year. A rough guide to spending power, not revenue.

Can pay online

14%

0%world median 71%100%

Adults aged 15 and over holding a bank or mobile-money account, World Bank Global Findex 2017. Below half means a card-only checkout excludes most of the market.

Languages

3

Sango 49% · French 29% · Lingala 0.3%

Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 2 of them are official nationally.

English proficiency

—

Not in the EF EPI 2025 table. Absent is not the same as low.

Adult literacy

57%

0%world median 95%100%

Share of adults who can read, as recorded in CLDR territory data. Low literacy shifts a product toward icons, audio, and video before another language.

What people speak

Shares include second languages, so totals can exceed 100%.

Most spoken in Central African Republic

share of 5.7M people

Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%.

CLDR also records diaspora populations, so a language reaches further than any single page shows. The language profiles show each one's full footprint.

Day-one requirements

What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (sg-CF).

Plural categories

2

Word-forms a translator writes for counted text, like English's "1 item" and "2 items".

Script family

Latin

Default system fonts cover this script on all major platforms.

Reading direction

Left-to-right

Standard. Use dir='auto' on user-generated content fields.

Date

21 Ngubùe 2026

Short: 21/4/2026

Time

18:30

Week starts Mon

Currency

FCFA 1.235

1,234.56 in XAF · Central African CFA Franc