Cameroon
Cameroon in numbers — 19 World Bank indicators, each linking to its complete year-by-year history.
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
| Indicator | Latest | Year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| GDP | 58,933,453,923.76 | 2025 | +9495.1% |
| GDP per capita | 1,972.38 | 2025 | +1556.7% |
| GDP growth | 3.2% | 2025 | +170.3% |
| Population | 29,879,337 | 2025 | +479.2% |
| Population growth | 2.56% | 2025 | +66.0% |
| Urban population | 55.67% | 2025 | +309.0% |
| Inflation | 3.4% | 2025 | +409.0% |
| Life expectancy | 63.97 | 2024 | +84.5% |
| Infant mortality | 40.2 | 2024 | -77.3% |
| CO2 per capita | 0.35 | 2024 | +93.1% |
| GDP (PPP) | 172,937,252,205.46 | 2025 | +651.1% |
| GDP per capita (PPP) | 5,787.85 | 2025 | +184.8% |
| Labor participation | 65.17% | 2025 | -20.7% |
| Unemployment | 3.6% | 2025 | -59.9% |
| Electricity access | 72% | 2024 | +148.3% |
| Internet users | 46.26% | 2024 | — |
| Education spending | 2.84% | 2023 | -7.8% |
| Forest area | 42.67% | 2023 | -10.3% |
| Health spending | 4.55% | 2023 | +6.0% |