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Cameroon

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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.

Key facts

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)

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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
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: 41.90 % 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 %
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
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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There are 102 books written about Cameroon in the database.

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