Country comparison Ivory Coast : Cameroon

General information

	Ivory Coast	Cameroon
Region:	Western Africa	Central Africa
Area:	322,460 km²	475,440 km²
Official language:	French	French
Government form:	Presidential republic	Presidential republic
Independent since:	1960 n.Chr.	1960 n.Chr.
Capital:	Yamoussoukro	Yaoundé

Population

	Ivory Coast	Cameroon
Population:	26,378,000	26,546,000
Inhabitants/km²:	81.8	55.8
Life expectancy males:	Ø 57 years	Ø 58 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 59 years	Ø 61 years
Average age:	Ø 19.0 years	Ø 18.3 years
Birthrate:	35.46 ‰	34.89 ‰
Deathrate:	9.87 ‰	9.06 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.21 ‰	-0.32 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
Visit also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life (in german only)

	Ivory Coast	Cameroon
Political stability:	48	36
Civil rights:	37	19
Health:	11	7
Climate:	46	55
Cost of Living:	57	51
Popularity:	38	37

Economy

	Ivory Coast	Cameroon
Currency:	West African Franc	Central African Franc
Unemployment rate:	3.5 %	3.6 %
Inflation rate:	2.43 %	2.44 %
Cost of Living:	45.13 %	45.77 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	50.10 %	57.70 %
Average income:	2,280 US$	1,500 US$
Corruption index:	36 (bad)	25 (very bad)

	CIV: total	per 1000 inh.	CMR: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	61,349 M US$	2.33 M US$	39,802 M US$	1.50 M US$
Gross national product:	60,197 M US$	2.28 M US$	39,746 M US$	1.50 M US$
Exported goods:	13,791 M US$	0.52 M US$	7,731 M US$	0.29 M US$
Imported goods:	12,881 M US$	0.49 M US$	9,085 M US$	0.34 M US$

Infrastructure

	CIV: total	per 1000 inh.	CMR: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	81,996 km	3.11 km	77,589 km	2.92 km
Railways:	660 km	0.03 km	987 km	0.04 km
Harbours:	25	0.001	61	0.002
Airports:	27	0.001	33	0.001

Energy balance

	CIV: total	per 1000 inh.	CMR: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	6.25 bn kWh	236,747.85 kWh	6.41 bn kWh	241,506.55 kWh
Energy production:	9.73 bn kWh	368,864.15 kWh	8.11 bn kWh	305,433.64 kWh
Energy export:	872.00 m kWh	33,057.51 kWh	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh
Energy imports:	19.00 m kWh	720.29 kWh	55.00 m kWh	2,071.89 kWh
CO2 emissions:	9.91 m t	375.69 t	8.62 m t	324.72 t

Telecommunication

	Ivory Coast	Cameroon
International dialing:	+225	+237
Internet domain:	.ci	.cm

	CIV total	CIV per 1000 inh.	CMR total	CMR per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	271,724	10	856,411	32
Mobile cellulars:	37,376,603	1417	21,400,736	806
Internet server:	9,115	0	10,207	0
Internet users:	9,615,881	365	6,159,437	232
Broadband Internet:	260,097	10	713,845	27

Healthcare system

	Ivory Coast	Cameroon
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	0.40	1.30
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.23	0.09
Diabetes:	2.4 %	6.0 %
Malaria:	330.6 %	247.0 %
HIV:	0.37 %	0.81 %
Tuberculosis:	1.4 %	1.8 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	84.0 %	84.0 %
Smokers:	13.0 %	9.3 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Ivory Coast and Cameroon

	Ivory Coast	Cameroon
Daytime temperatures:	32.2 °C	30.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	22.0 °C	20.6 °C
Rel. humidity:	78 %	71 %
Rain days:	8.3	11.0
Sunshine hours per day:	6.2	6.3

Native languages

	Ivory Coast	Cameroon
Akan:	30.0 %	n/a
Fang:	n/a	19.7 %
Bamileke-bamum:	n/a	18.6 %
Gur:	11.7 %	n/a
Malinke:	11.4 %	n/a
Duala:	n/a	10.9 %
Kru:	10.5 %	n/a
Fula:	n/a	9.6 %
Bambara:	8.4 %	n/a
South-Mande:	7.7 %	n/a
Tikar:	n/a	7.4 %
Mandara:	n/a	5.7 %
Maka:	n/a	4.9 %
Masana:	n/a	3.9 %
French:	2.1 %	3.0 %
English:	n/a	2.0 %
other:	18.2 %	14.3 %

Religions

	Ivory Coast	Cameroon
Native religions:	11.9 %	40.0 %
Christianity:	32.8 %	40.0 %
Islam:	38.6 %	20.0 %
nondenominational:	16.7 %	n/a