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Key facts
- Currency: Central African CFA franc
- Capital city: Yaoundé
- Region: Middle Africa
- Continent: Africa
- Land area: 472,710 km²
- Population: 27,914,536
- Political Leader: Paul Biya (President)
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Metrics
General information
Business
| Central government debt | 79.46 % of GDP |
| Expense | 12.43 % of GDP |
| GDP | 43,644,100,000.00 current US$ |
| Inflation | 6.25 annual % |
| Self-employed | 75.00 % of total employment |
| Tax revenue | 11.35 % of GDP |
| Unemployment | 3.70 % of total labor force |
| Vulnerable employment | 71.87 % of total employment |
Environment
| Agricultural land | 97,500.00 km² |
| Alternative and nuclear energy | 4.60 % of total energy use |
| Carbon Dioxide Emissions (CO2) | 9,928.40 kt |
| 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 | 4.46 births per woman |
| Forest area | 202,845 km² |
| Fossil fuel energy consumption | 38.32 % of total |
| Other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6 | 1,385.67 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent |
| Median age | 13.60 years |
| Methane emissions | 17,797.70 kt of CO2 equivalent |
| Nitrous oxide emissions | 62,399.50 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent |
| Female Population | 13,992,014 |
| Male Population | 13,922,522 |
| Renewable energy consumption | 78.94 % of total final energy consumption |
| Rural land area | 463,837.00 km² |
| Rural population | 11,519,492 |
| Urban land area | 2,352.11 km² |
| Urban population | 16,395,044 |
| Urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters | 1.92 % of total population |
Health
| Birth rate | 34.94 per 1,000 people |
| Death rate | 8.58 per 1,000 people |
| Health expenditure per capita | 58.01 current US$ |
| Health expenditure | 3.77 % of GDP |
| Incidence of HIV | 0.56 per 1,000 uninfected population |
| Hospital beds | 1.30 per 1,000 people |
| Life expectancy at birth | 60 years |
| Suicide mortality rate | 9.00 per 100,000 population |
Other
| Access to electricity | 65.45 % of population |
| Internally displaced persons, by conflict and violence | 987,000 |
| Individuals using the Internet | 45.60 % of population |
| Net migration | -4,800 |
| Press freedom | 1.81 |
Politics
| Armed forces personnel | 34,000 |
| Democracy score | 3.28 |
| Democracy type | Authoritarian |
| Military expenditure | 0.95 % of GDP |
| Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments | 33.89 % |
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SIPRI, World Bank, Reporters Without Borders
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