One in every 147 babies born in the world today is born in Cameroon. Cameroon has about 900,000 births a year, around 0.7% of all births worldwide.
- Births per year
- 900,000
- Share of world births
- 0.7%
- Birth odds
- 1/147
- Life expectancy
- 61 years
- Risk of dying before age 5
- 7.0%
- Income per person, PPP
- US$4,500
- Children per woman
- 4.3
- Urban population
- 59%
Life expectancy in Cameroon is 61 years, which is 12 years shorter than the world average.
Of every 1,000 babies born here, about 70 do not reach their fifth birthday. That is 1.9 times the world average.
Income per person is about US$4,500 in purchasing power. That is only 20% of the world average.
On average a woman has 4.3 children in her lifetime. The world average is 2.3.
About 59% of the population lives in cities. A baby born here has roughly a 41% chance of being born in the countryside.
Religious makeup
- Christianity70%
- Islam25%
- Folk beliefs5%
Sample names given to people born in this country in the game
Jean · Patrice · Joël · Mateus · Grâce · Esther · Ana · Joséphine
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Values are rounded approximations. Sources: UN World Population Prospects 2024, World Bank WDI, Pew Research Center 2020.