6 Stats That Tell You About The Crisis In Central African Republic

Violence, disease, displacement and refugee crises have all helped make Central African Republic (CAR) one of the poorest and most dangerous countries to live in.

1. The latest news paints an unhappy picture – the 20 most common words all relate to insecurity or groups caught up in the violence

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These words all featured 221 times in the last ten news items on BBC and The International New York Times, the bigger the word above the more it featured. Almost to underline the general bad news from CAR, the 21st most common word and just not popular enough to make the list was ‘Peace’.

2. This insecurity has led to one of the highest levels of internal displacement in the world

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3. The people in CAR now have the second lowest life expectancy in the world

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4. There are few doctors working across a country which is a similar size to France

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5. While many in the international community are trying to get more attention on CAR’s forgotten crisis, this year the UN appeal still struggled to meet the need at its mid-year review

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6. And finally the world’s public are unaware, among the top ten failed states there is the least interest in CAR according to Google Trend data

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(Chad was left out of this analysis because it showed up in too many unrelated searches like Chad Michael Murray and even Chad Kroeger)