Urban population: 59.3% of total population (2023)
Rate of urbanization: 3.43% annual rate of change (2020-25 est.)
0-14 - years : 41.69% (male 6,337,141/female 6,226,100)
15-64 - years : 55.12% (male 8,231,473/female 8,379,699)
65 - years and over : 3.19% (2023 est.) (male 447,656/female 513,663)
Total dependency ratio: 82.3
Youth dependency ratio: 77.3
Elderly dependency ratio: 4.9
Potential support ratio: 20.3 (2021 est.)
Total: 18.8 years (2023 est.)
Male: 18.5 years
Female: 19.1 years
at - birth : 1.03 male(s)/female
0-14 - years : 1.02 male(s)/female
15-64 - years : 0.98 male(s)/female
65 - years and over : 0.87 male(s)/female
total - population : 0.99 male(s)/female (2023 est.)
Total: 47.4 deaths/1,000 live births (2023 est.)
Male: 52.2 deaths/1,000 live births
Female: 42.5 deaths/1,000 live births
Total population: 63.7 years (2023 est.)
Male: 61.9 years
Female: 65.6 years
Total population: 63.7 years (2023 est.)
Male: 61.9 years
Female: 65.6 years
Total: 7.3% (2020 est.)
Male: 13.2% (2020 est.)
Female: 1.4% (2020 est.)
Improved: urban
Rural: 43.8% of population
Total: 21.4% of population (2020 est.)
Unimproved: urban
Improved: Urban
Rural: 72.3% of population
Total: 40.3% of population (2020 est.)
Unimproved: Urban
Women married by age 15: 10.7%
Women married by age 18: 29.8%
Men married by age 18: 2.9% (2018 est.)
Degree of risk: Very high (2023)
Food or waterborne diseases: Bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever
Vectorborne diseases: Malaria and dengue fever
Water contact diseases: Schistosomiasis
Animal contact diseases: Rabies
Respiratory diseases: Meningococcal meningitis
Note: On 31 August 2023, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Cameroon is currently considered a high risk to travelers for circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses (cVDPV); vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV) is a strain of the weakened poliovirus that was initially included in oral polio vaccine (OPV) and that has changed over time and behaves more like the wild or naturally occurring virus; this means it can be spread more easily to people who are unvaccinated against polio and who come in contact with the stool or respiratory secretions, such as from a sneeze, of an “infected†person who received oral polio vaccine; the CDC recommends that before any international travel, anyone unvaccinated, incompletely vaccinated, or with an unknown polio vaccination status should complete the routine polio vaccine series; before travel to any high-risk destination, the CDC recommends that adults who previously completed the full, routine polio vaccine series receive a single, lifetime booster dose of polio vaccine
Definition: Age 15 and over can read and write
Total population: 77.1%
Male: 82.6%
Female: 71.6% (2018)
Total: 12 years
Male: 13 years
Female: 11 years (2016)
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