Cameroon
Cameroon in numbers
37 measures of Cameroon from 1800 to 2025, each charted year by year with where it comes from. Where a source publishes projections, they run on to 2100, drawn apart from the estimates.
Every measure
Health
People
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spending1.06% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$580M in 2025
- Military spending per person$21 in 2025
- Military share of state spending6.5% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel34,000 people in 2020
- National power0.16% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.34% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports2 million TIV in 2023
Climate
Technology and environment
Compare Cameroon with…
- Cameroon vs Nigeria
- Cameroon vs Ethiopia
- Cameroon vs Congo - Kinshasa
- Cameroon vs Tanzania
- Cameroon vs South Africa
- Cameroon vs Kenya
- Cameroon vs Sudan
- Cameroon vs Uganda
- Cameroon vs Angola
- Cameroon vs Mozambique
- Cameroon vs Ghana
- Cameroon vs Madagascar
- Cameroon vs Côte d’Ivoire
- Cameroon vs Niger
- Cameroon vs Mali
- Cameroon vs Burkina Faso
- Cameroon vs Malawi
- Cameroon vs Zambia
- Cameroon vs Chad
- Cameroon vs Somalia
- Cameroon vs Senegal
- Cameroon vs Zimbabwe
- Cameroon vs Guinea
- Cameroon vs Benin
- Cameroon vs Rwanda
- Cameroon vs Burundi
- Cameroon vs South Sudan
- Cameroon vs Congo - Brazzaville
- Cameroon vs Central African Republic
- Cameroon vs Gabon
- Cameroon vs Equatorial Guinea
Good to know
- Sources: UN, Gapminder and UN IGME, IHME, World Bank, IMF, UNESCO, Our World in Data, V-Dem, UCDP, SIPRI, IISS, Correlates of War, ERA5, CMIP6, EDGAR, ITU and FAO. Each measure’s page names its own and what it counts.
- Values are drawn on today’s borders. Years without a published value are left empty, never filled in.
- 2 measures are climate model output, marked as modelled: not measurements.
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