2 GeoFroggy

Languages

24 major African language groups, English (official), French (official)

Ethnic Groups

Cameroon Highlanders 31%
Equatorial Bantu 19%
Kirdi 11%
Fulani 10%
Northwestern Bantu 8%
Eastern Nigritic 7%
Other African 13%
Non-African less than 1%
%

Age Structure

0-14 years - : 42.37% (male 3,385,898; female 3,310,504)

15-64 years - : 54.28% (male 4,305,354; female 4,271,958)

65 years and over - : 3.35% (male 244,419; female 285,087) (2001 est.)

Sex Ratio

at birth - : 1.03 male(s)/female

under 15 years - : 1.02 male(s)/female

15-64 years - : 1.01 male(s)/female

65 years and over - : 0.86 male(s)/female

total population - : 1.01 male(s)/female (2001 est.)

Infant Mortality Rate

69.83 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)

Life Expectancy at Birth

Total population: 54.59 years

Male: 53.76 years

Female: 55.44 years (2001 est.)

AIDS - adult prevalence rate

7.73% (1999 est.)

AIDS - people living with HIV

AIDS - deaths

52,000 (1999 est.)

Literacy

Definition: Age 15 and over can read and write

Total population: 63.4%

Male: 75%

Female: 52.1% (1995 est.)

Year

Population

  • estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2001 est.)

Nationality

  • Cameroonian(s) noun


  • Cameroonian adjective


Religions

  • Indigenous Beliefs
    40.00%
  • Christian
    40.00%
  • Muslim
    20.00%

Population Growth Rate

  • Growth Rate
    2.41% (2001 est.)

Birth Rate

  • 36.12 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)

Death Rate

  • 11.99 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)

Migration Rate

  • 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 est.) NA migrant(s)/1,000 population

Total fertility rate

  • 4.8 children born/woman (2001 est.)