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Chad
Chad requires an ID card and runs a national biometric population register under ANATS, with refugee enrolment in 2025-2026. CEMAC's central bank is only studying a CBDC.
Digital ID · Goal 16.9
Digital ID in Chad
- Program
- National biometric register / secure ID (ANATS)
- Status
- Not confirmed
- National ID card
- ID card compulsory
- Biometrics
- Yes
ANATS stated in 2023 that a national identification number in the biometric register is the only route to a secure identity document, and free card issuance ended in August 2023. UNHCR and ANATS began biometric enrolment of refugees in Abéché on 21 November 2025, and UNHCR gave ANATS equipment on 13 March 2026. No separate digital ID was found.
Digital money · Goal 8.10
Central bank digital currency
- Status
- Research
The BEAC (central bank of the six-country CEMAC zone) set up a working group on a central bank digital currency in September 2023. No launch date or issuance decision has been published in the sources found.
On the record
What has happened, newest first
- 2025-11-21Rolling it out
UNHCR and ANATS began biometric enrolment of refugees in the national register in Abéché. Tchadinfos ↗
UN and WHO
How Chad has voted
- WHO
- Accepted the 2024 rule changes
- Pandemic Agreement (May 2025)
- No recorded objection
- Migration compact (Dec 2018)
- Voted yes
- Paris climate deal
- Party
- SDG Index 2026
- 43.9 · rank 167 of 169
- Progress reports to the UN (VNRs)
- 3
Sovereignty score
How the 0 adds up
- 0No tracked actions either way.
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Country research checked Oct 2026. Tracker data checked 11 Oct 2026. Every claim links to its source.