Cameroon
65 figures for Cameroon, each the latest the source has. Pick one to see how Cameroon compares.
Economy
- GDP per person $1,972 (2025)
- GDP per person, price-adjusted $5,788 (2025)
- Economic growth +3.2% (2025)
- Unemployment 3.6% (2025)
- Inflation +4.5% (2024)
- Exports 15.7% (2024)
- Income per person $4,746 (2023)
- Household wealth 46.1 (2019)
- Poorer households 54.8% (2019)
- Wealth inequality 0.31 (2019)
- Women in paid work 61.9% (2019)
People
- Population 28.4 million (2023)
- Population growth +2.56% (2025)
- Births per woman 4.26 (2024)
- Typical age 17.8 (2023)
- Living in cities 55.7% (2025)
- Human Development Index 0.588 (2023)
- Women’s vs men’s development 0.898 (2023)
- People per household 7.7 (2019)
- People over 65 3.9% (2019)
- Children under 15 45.0% (2019)
- Women’s age at first marriage 19.3 (2019)
- Mothers’ age at first birth 19.6 (2019)
Health
- Life expectancy 63.7 (2023)
- Child deaths (under 5) 64.8 (2024)
- Mothers dying in childbirth 258 (2023)
- Health spending per person $79 (2023)
- Measles vaccination 71% (2024)
- Overweight adults 39.5% (2022)
- Stunted children 28.7% (2019)
- Overweight children 13.8% (2019)
- Homes with piped water 18.2% (2019)
- Homes with a flush toilet 16.6% (2019)
Education
- Years of schooling 6.6 (2023)
- Expected years in school 10.8 (2023)
- Secondary school enrollment 44.8% (2023)
- Education spending 2.7% (2022)
- Teens in school 73.6% (2019)
Environment
- CO₂ per person 0.331 (2024)
- Total CO₂ emissions 9.63 million (2024)
- Forest cover 42.7% (2023)
- Air pollution (PM2.5) 51.5 (2024)
- Renewable energy share 79.2% (2021)
- Average temperature 24.6 (2022)
Energy
- Energy use per person 371 (2023)
- Access to electricity 72.0% (2024)
- Renewable electricity 73.1% (2024)
- Nuclear electricity 0.0% (2024)
- Coal electricity 0.0% (2024)
- Cooking with wood or dung 68.1% (2019)
Technology
- Internet users 46.3% (2024)
- Mobile phone subscriptions 89.8 (2022)
- Home broadband 2.1 (2022)
- Homes with internet 9.6% (2019)
- Homes with a mobile phone 88.0% (2019)
Food and farming
- Hunger 4.8% (2023)
- Cereal yield 1,770 (2023)
- Farmland 20.9% (2023)
- Jobs in farming 41.9% (2025)
Government
- Electoral democracy 0.26 (2025)
- Human rights 0.51 (2025)
- Control of corruption −1.20 (2025)
- Women in parliament 33.9% (2025)
- Military spending 1.0% (2024)
- Clean government 39.5 (2022)