Central African Republic

Population Statistics

5,391,539

Total Population

808,731

Population with a disability

according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimate

Election Dates

11 October 2016

Ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Electoral Code of the Central African Republic (2003, amended 2004)

Updated: June 2015

Article 2 states:

The election is to be universal, equal, and secretly, direct or indirect.

 

Excerpt from the Electoral Code of the Central African Republic (2003, last amended 2004)

Consitution of the Central African Republic (2004, last amended 2010)

Updated: June 2015

Article 19 states:

All Central Africans of both genders, aged eighteen years of age or older, enjoying their civil rights, are electors within the conditions determined by the law. Every citizen has a duty to vote.

 

Excerpt from the Constitution of the Central African Republic (2004, last amended 2010)