Population Statistics

Vakaga · Central African Republic

Birao population

8,457people · latest figure

By James Burfield, SEO consultant, Bath · Page updated · GeoNames · World Gazetteer 2005

Birao has a population of 8,457, making it the 43rd largest place we list in Central African Republic. It is in Vakaga.

Birao holds 0.15% of Central African Republic's 5,698,984 people. Bangui, the largest place we list there, is 96 times its size. Twenty years earlier the World Gazetteer recorded 10,178, a fall of 17%.

8,457
population
10,178
in 2005
-16.9%
since 2005
The 2005 figure comes from the World Gazetteer archive restored on this site. The two sources may draw the settlement's boundary differently, so treat the change as indicative rather than exact. Why figures differ.

Nearby in size

PlaceRegionPopulation
MongoumbaLobaye9,985
DamaraOmbella-M'Poko9,117
BayangaSangha-Mbaéré8,920
KembéBasse-Kotto7,317
MobayeBasse-Kotto7,179
BaminguiBamingui-Bangoran6,230

All places in Central African Republic →

Figures are the latest available in GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), which draws on national censuses of varying dates — treat them as recent, not same-year. Country totals are UN World Population Prospects 2024 (medium variant) where the UN lists the country separately; the handful it reports under a parent state keep a GeoNames figure and are marked as such. Sources & method.