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Cameroon

Cameroon in numbers — 19 World Bank indicators, each linking to its complete year-by-year history.

Capital: Yaounde · Region: Sub-Saharan Africa · Income group: Lower middle income

Cameroon recorded GDP per capita: 1,972 (2025), ranking 176 of 212 worldwide; Population: 29.88 million (2025), ranking 51 of 217 worldwide; Life expectancy: 64.0 (2024), ranking 194 of 217 worldwide; Inflation: 3.40% (2025), ranking 83 of 187 worldwide. The year in brackets is the reference year for that figure.

Measured across each series' full span, GDP shows the largest increase (+9495%) and Infant mortality the largest decrease (-77%). Every indicator below links to its complete year-by-year series.

Across the measures below it sits below the world median on slightly more than half. Measured against the median of every economy covered here, 8 of 19 comparable series are higher and 10 are lower.

Its population of 29.88 million (2025) makes it a mid-sized population by the standards of this dataset.

All 19 series on this page carry a value for 2023 or later.

Indicators

IndicatorLatestYearChange
GDP58,933,453,923.762025+9495.1%
GDP per capita1,972.382025+1556.7%
GDP growth3.2%2025+170.3%
Population29,879,3372025+479.2%
Population growth2.56%2025+66.0%
Urban population55.67%2025+309.0%
Inflation3.4%2025+409.0%
Life expectancy63.972024+84.5%
Infant mortality40.22024-77.3%
CO2 per capita0.352024+93.1%
GDP (PPP)172,937,252,205.462025+651.1%
GDP per capita (PPP)5,787.852025+184.8%
Labor participation65.17%2025-20.7%
Unemployment3.6%2025-59.9%
Electricity access72%2024+148.3%
Internet users46.26%2024
Education spending2.84%2023-7.8%
Forest area42.67%2023-10.3%
Health spending4.55%2023+6.0%
Source. World Bank Open Data (CC BY 4.0). Latest data revision: 2026-09-13. Country page on data.worldbank.org.