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Cameroon — Life expectancy
Life Expectancy at Birth for Cameroon, 1960–2024.
Latest value · 2024
64.0
Life Expectancy at Birth · years · +84.5% since 1960
Life expectancy for Cameroon was 64.0 in 2024, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 65 years, from 1960 to 2024. The latest year is also the highest value on record for this series. The lowest was 34.7 in 1960 (about 1.8× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to 0.96% per year.
Cameroon ranks 194 of 217 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 89%. The median for Sub-Saharan Africa is 64.3, so Cameroon sits below it. Over the last decade (2014–2024) the figure moved up 8%.
Key figures
Latest (2024)
64.0
First (1960)
34.7
Change
+84.5%
Highest
64.0
in 2024
Lowest
34.7
in 1960
Average
53.0
Annual growth (CAGR)
0.96%
Years of data
65
Recent years
| Year | years |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 63.97 |
| 2023 | 63.7 |
| 2022 | 62.44 |
| 2021 | 61.15 |
| 2020 | 61.67 |
| 2019 | 61.7 |
| 2018 | 61.19 |
| 2017 | 60.82 |
| 2016 | 60.29 |
| 2015 | 59.69 |
| 2014 | 59.13 |
| 2013 | 58.73 |
Reading this correctly. Number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of birth stayed the same throughout its life. Figures are in years. Comparing this series with a different measure of the same concept (for example a nominal figure against a purchasing-power-parity figure) will give misleading results.
Related data
Source. World Bank Open Data, indicator
SP.DYN.LE00.IN — Life Expectancy at Birth. Data licensed under CC BY 4.0. Values are reproduced as published; this page computes the summary statistics (change, CAGR, extremes) from the underlying annual series. View the original dataset on data.worldbank.org.