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Cameroon

29,879,337

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+755.59K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+100.4%from 14.91M
Life expectancy64.0 years2024
Fertility rate4.26births per woman · 2024
Urban population55.7%2025
RegionSub-Saharan Africa Lower middle income

A country at every age

How Cameroon is shaped by age.

A younger population means schools, jobs, and future families will shape the decades ahead.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1441.1%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6456.1%Working-age population
Ages 65+2.8%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate33.3births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate7.0deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+26.3births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-15.38Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Cameroon look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 51.1M in 2050—75.4% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 202429.12M
  2. 205051.1M
  3. 210088.88M
Median age in 205023.1years
Births in 20501.23Mduring the year
Deaths in 2050310.04Kduring the year
Life expectancy69.5years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 19605.16M
  2. 19706.45M
  3. 19808.51M
  4. 199011.33M
  5. 200014.91M
  6. 201019.67M
  7. 202026.21M
  8. 202529.88M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/22/2026

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