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Public health and Covid-19 in Cameroon

Healthcare in Cameroon

Healthcare in Cameroon is slightly below average in a worldwide comparison.

Probably the most important indicator that can be used to summarize the efficiency of all measures is general life expectancy. In other words, the theoretical age that a newborn child could potentially reach today. At the moment, this age in Cameroon is 58.7 years for men and 62.0 years for women. For comparison: worldwide life expectancy is about 11.1 years lower (men: 68.9 / women: 73.9 years).

A total of 58.01 USD per inhabitant is spent annually on health measures at state expense. This corresponds to approximately 3.8 percent of the gross domestic product. Internationally, this amount averages 1,177.15 USD (~ 10.9% of the respective GDP).


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Spread of COVID-19 in Cameroon

Since the beginning of the pandemic until June 7th, 2023, a total of 125,036 infected people and 1,972 deaths have been reported in Cameroon.

The total of 125,036 infected people currently represents 0.47 percent of the total population.

Current vaccination status

According to official WHO data, a total of 4.74 million vaccine doses have been administered as of May 7th, 2023. More recent data are not yet available to WHO. There are 3.66 million people who have received at least one vaccination (13.8 percent). The booster vaccination was received by 765,051 people (2.9 percent).

3.11 million of these are considered fully vaccinated in Cameroon (= 11.7 percent).
This means that Cameroon is one of the countries with the worst vaccination coverage in the world.The vaccination rate is higher in 220 countries.

Weight and size

MaleFemale
Body height171 cm160 cm
BMI23.625.1
Weight69.0 kg64.3 kg

Diseases

CameroonØ worldwide
Diabetes *6.00%8.81%
Tuberculosis1.64‰1.34‰
Malaria24.7%5.7%
HIV / Aids0.08%0.03%

* The number of people suffering from diabetes refers only to inhabitants aged between 20 and 79 years.


Child vaccinations

CameroonØ worldwide
Measles62.0%81.7%
Hepatitis B0.07%0.08%
Tetanus8.3%0.0%
DTP *6.90%8.14%

* DTP is a combined basic vaccination against diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough) and tetanus, which should be given to children up to the age of 23 months.

In Cameroon, 7.3 percent of all over 15-year-olds are still smokers.


Medical supplies

Public health and Covid-19 in CameroonMedical care provided by doctors and hospitals in Cameroon is below average compared to the world population. The country provides 1.3 hospital beds per 1,000 inhabitants. The global mean here is 2.9 beds. Within the EU, 4.6 beds are available for every 1,000 residents.

With about 2,440 physicians in Cameroon, there are about 0.09 doctors per 1000 inhabitants. Here again the comparison: worldwide this standard is 1.50 physicians per 1,000 inhabitants and in the EU is 3.57.

Through medical care, the mortality rate of major known diseases can be reduced as far as possible. For example, only about 24 percent of all people who suffer from cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases or chylomicron retention disease (CRD) currently die.

Sources

The above data correspond to the information from the World Health Organization, Global Health Workforce Statistics, UNICEF, State of the World's Children, Childinfo, Global Health Observatory Data Repository and OECD. The case numbers for the spread of the COVID-19 come from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).

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