🇨🇲 Cameroon
Republic of Cameroon
Every statistic we track for Cameroon — 135 indicators, each with its latest value and world rank. Open the interactive profile →
$5,994
63.5 yrs
5.08
0.11
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All indicators
📈 Economy
👥 Demographics
| Fertility Rate (WB) | 4.3 | #16/217 | 2024 |
| Gender Inequality Index | 0.6 | #24/172 | 2023 |
| Internally Displaced People | 1,004,257 | #15/38 | 2025 |
| Median Age | 18.2 | #219/235 | 2026 |
| Population | 20.9 | #58/229 | 2013 |
| Population | 30.6 | #49/191 | 2026 |
| Population Density | 65.7 | #153/235 | 2026 |
| Refugees by Country of Origin | 140,366 | #25/195 | 2025 |
| Urban Population | 55.4% | #139/213 | 2024 |
🌐 Connectivity
| Access to Electricity | 72% | #175/214 | 2024 |
| Get News from the Internet (Afrobarometer) | 63.1% | #7/39 | 2023 |
| Internet Users | 46.3% | #148/182 | 2024 |
| Mobile Subscriptions | 89.8 | #159/209 | 2022 |
| Read News Online | 33.3% | #50/75 | 2024 |
🫀 Health
🎓 Education
| Education Spending (QoG) | 2.8% | #80/112 | 2023 |
| Mean Years of Schooling | 7.4 | #110/146 | 2020 |
🌱 Environment
| CO₂ per Capita (WB) | 0.4 | #169/203 | 2024 |
| Energy Use per Person | 371 | #136/149 | 2023 |
| Environmental Performance Index | 38.6 | #135/179 | 2024 |
| Renewable Electricity | 73.1% | #41/195 | 2024 |
🏛️ Governance
📰 Media & news
| Press Freedom Index | 40.9 | #130/177 | 2026 |
🛡️ Safety
| Felt Unsafe in the Neighbourhood (Afrobarometer) | 62.3% | #9/39 | 2023 |
| Global Peace Index | 2.7 | #25/160 | 2025 |
| Homicide Rate | 6.8 | #69/204 | 2023 |
| Road Traffic Deaths | 10.6 | #115/195 | 2021 |
| Trust in the Police (Afrobarometer) | 45.2% | #20/39 | 2023 |
⚠️ Risk & resilience
| Climate Seen as a Threat | 79.7% | #113/142 | 2023 |
| Confident Can Protect Family | 49% | #62/142 | 2023 |
| Disaster Exposure (WRI) | 1.7 | #84/193 | 2026 |
| Experienced a Disaster | 27.9% | #63/142 | 2023 |
| Experienced Discrimination (Skin Colour) | 12.8% | #29/139 | 2023 |
| INFORM Risk Index | 6.8 | #18/191 | 2025 |
| Resilience to Risk (WRP) | 45.7 | #111/141 | 2023 |
| World Risk Index | 10.1 | #57/193 | 2026 |
| Worry About Violent Crime | 85% | #13/142 | 2023 |
😊 Wellbeing
| Happiness (Cantril Ladder) | 5.1 | #100/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Freedom | 0.8 | #104/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: GDP | 1.2 | #121/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Generosity | 0.1 | #84/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Healthy Life Expectancy | 0.3 | #128/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Low Corruption | 0.1 | #127/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Social Support | 0.9 | #116/147 | 2025 |
| Human Development Index | 0.6 | #155/193 | 2023 |
| Went Without a Cash Income (Afrobarometer) | 93.2% | #7/39 | 2023 |
| Went Without Enough Food (Afrobarometer) | 75% | #7/39 | 2023 |
🧭 Attitudes & values
| Attended a Demonstration | 9.9% | #84/151 | 2017 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Effective | 82.5% | #76/143 | 2018 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Safe | 77.1% | #74/143 | 2018 |
| China’s Influence Seen as Positive (Afrobarometer) | 74.7% | #11/39 | 2023 |
| Country Going in the Right Direction (Afrobarometer) | 29.4% | #21/39 | 2023 |
| Trust in Fellow Citizens (Afrobarometer) | 52.9% | #24/39 | 2023 |
| Trust in parliament | 4.7 | #68/151 | 2017 |
| Trust in Science | 65.7% | #106/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in Scientists | 48.8% | #124/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in the legal system | 4.6 | #98/153 | 2017 |
| US Influence Seen as Positive (Afrobarometer) | 55.4% | #29/39 | 2023 |
Latest available period per indicator. The rank counts down from the highest value, whatever that means for the series: on child mortality or extreme poverty the country at #1 is the worst in the world, not the best. Sources are credited on each indicator page.