Cameroon People:
Population:
16,380,005 (July 2005 est.)
note: 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
Age structure:
0-14 years: 41.7% (male:3,457,180; female:3,375,668)
15-64 years: 55% (male:4,537,281; female:4,477,163)
65 years and over: 3.3% (male:239,634; female:293,079) (2005)
Median age:
total: 18.6 years
male: 18.45 years
female: 18.76 years (2005)
Population growth rate:
1.93% (2005 est.)
Birth rate:
34.67 births
/
1,000 population (2005 est.)
Death rate:
15.4 deaths
/
1,000 population (2005 est.)
Net migration rate:
0 migrant(s)
/
1,000 population (2005 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth: 1.03 male(s)/female (2005)
under 15 years: 1.02 male(s)/female (2005)
15-64 years: 1.01 male(s)/female (2005)
65 years and over: 0.82 male(s)/female (2005)
total population: 1.01 male(s)/female (2005)
Infant mortality rate:
total: 68.26 deaths
/
1,000 live births (2005 est.)
male: 72.14 deaths
/
1,000 live births
female: 64.27 deaths
/
1,000 live births
Life expectancy at birth:
total: 47.84 years (2005 est.)
male: 47.04 years
female: 48.67 years
Total fertility rate:
4.47 children born/woman (2005 est.)
HIV/AIDS — adult prevalence rate:
6.9% (2003 est.)
HIV/AIDS — people living with HIV/AIDS:
560,000 (2003 est.)
HIV/AIDS — deaths:
49,000 (2003 est.)
Major infectious diseases:
degree of risk: very high
food or waterborne diseases: bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever
vectorborne disease: malaria and yellow fever are high risks in some locations
water contact disease: schistosomiasis
respiratory disease: meningococcal meningitis (2004)
Nationality:
noun: Cameroonian(s)
adjective: Cameroonian
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%
Religions:
indigenous beliefs 40%, Christian 40%, Muslim 20%
Languages:
24 major African language groups; English official, French official
Literacy:
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 79%
male: 84.7%
female: 73.4% (2003)
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