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- currency: Central African CFA franc
- capital city: Yaoundé
- region: Middle Africa
- continent: Africa
- land area: 472,710 km²
- population: 28,372,687 people
- political leader: Paul Biya (President)
Classified as: place
Location on a map: [6°0′N, 12°0′E]
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Summary
Cameroon is a country. The capital city is Yaoundé, located in the Middle Africa region of Africa. It has a land area of 472,710 km², a population of 28,372,687 people and uses the currency Central African CFA franc. The President is Paul Biya.
Environment
Cameroon is one of the 194 countries in our database.
- Agricultural land: 97,500.00 km²
- Alternative and nuclear energy: 4.60 % of total energy use
- Carbon dioxide emissions (co2): 10.76 Mt of CO2 equivalent
- Access to electricity: 71.00 % of population
- Electricity production from coal sources: 0.00 % of total
- Electricity production from natural gas sources: 5.99 % of total
- Electricity production from hydroelectric sources: 74.99 % of total
- Electricity production from nuclear sources: 0.00 % of total
- Electricity production from oil sources: 17.89 % of total
- Electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric: 1.12 % of total
- Net energy imports: -28.32 % of energy use
- Fertility rate: 4.38 births per woman
- Forest area: 202,284 km²
- Fossil fuel energy consumption: 38.32 % of total
- Greenhouse gas emissions (co2, ch4, n2o, hfcs, pfcs, sf6): 39.38 Mt of CO2 equivalent
- Median age: 13.80
- Methane emissions: 20.76 Mt of CO2 equivalent
- Nitrous oxide emissions: 4.59 Mt of CO2 equivalent
- Female population: 14,232,102 people
- Male population: 14,140,585 people
- Renewable energy consumption: 79.20 % of total final energy consumption
- Rural land area: 463,837.32 km²
- Rural population: 11,543,428 people
- Urban land area: 2,352.11 km²
- Urban population: 16,829,259 people
- Urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters : 1.92 % of total population
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Evolution of historical forest area in Cameroon
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Relationship between other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6 and urban population in Cameroon
Evolution of historical land area in Cameroon
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Evolution of historical nitrous oxide emissions in Cameroon
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Evolution of historical population in Cameroon
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Evolution of historical urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters in Cameroon
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Relationship between population and date in Cameroon
Relationship between carbon dioxide emissions and other greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, SF6) in Cameroon
Evolution of historical agricultural land in Cameroon
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Evolution of historical alternative and nuclear energy in Cameroon
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Evolution of historical carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) in Cameroon
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Relationship between carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) and GDP in Cameroon
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Evolution of historical access to electricity in Cameroon
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Sites in Cameroon
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Evolution of historical electricity production from coal sources in Cameroon
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Evolution of historical electricity production from oil sources in Cameroon
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Evolution of historical electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric, in Cameroon
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Geographical distribution of wildfires in Cameroon by mean width
Wildfires in Cameroon
Relationship between mean length and mean width of wildfires in Cameroon
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Politics
- Armed forces personnel: 34,000 people
- Democracy score: 3.28
- Democracy type: Authoritarian
- Internally displaced persons, by conflict and violence: 1,044,000 people
- Individuals using the internet: 43.86 % of population
- Military expenditure: 0.93 % of GDP
- Net migration: -4,798 people
- Press freedom: 1.81
- Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments: 33.89 %
Evolution of historical armed forces personnel in Cameroon
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Relationship between armed forces personnel and other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6 in Cameroon
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Evolution of historical internally displaced persons, by conflict and violence in Cameroon
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Evolution of the historical proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments in Cameroon
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Political parties in Cameroon
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Business
- Central government debt: 79.46 % of GDP
- Expense: 12.42 % of GDP
- Gdp: 49,279,410,982.83 current US$
- Inflation: 7.38 annual %
- Self-employed workers: 69.49 % of total employment
- Tax revenue: 11.34 % of GDP
- Unemployment: 3.61 % of total labor force
- Vulnerable employment: 67.88 % of total employment
Shops in Cameroon
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Distribution of companies founded in Cameroon by year
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Exchanges in Cameroon
Proportion of shops per country in Cameroon
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Health
- Birth rate: 34.35 per 1,000 people
- Death rate: 8.22 per 1,000 people
- Health expenditure per capita: 63.79 current US$
- Health expenditure: 3.82 % of GDP
- Incidence of hiv: 0.36 per 1,000 uninfected population
- Hospital beds: 2.65 per 1,000 people
- Life expectancy at birth: 61
- Suicide mortality rate: 9.00 per 100,000 population
Evolution of historical birth rate in Cameroon
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Relationship between life expectancy and the proportion of self-employed workers in Cameroon
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Diseases in Cameroon
Distribution of diseases by first founded year in Cameroon
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Distribution of diseases in Cameroon by start date
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Sports
Distribution of athletes from Cameroon by birth year
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Competitions in Cameroon
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Distribution of competitions in Cameroon by start date
Proportion of medals won by Cameroon in the Olympics
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Culture
Artists from Cameroon
Distribution of artists from Cameroon by birth year
Proportion of artists per gender in Cameroon
Geographical distribution of museums in Cameroon by visitors
Museums in Cameroon
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Research
Geographical distribution of universities in Cameroon by total students
Distribution of universities in Cameroon per foundation year
Universities in Cameroon
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In literature
There are 102 books written about Cameroon in the database
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