Country comparison: Ivory Coast / Cameroon

This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for Ivory Coast and Cameroon. There, we provide many explanations and details per country that go far beyond this comparison.

General information

	Ivory Coast	Cameroon
Region:	Western Africa	Central Africa
Area:	322,460 km²	475,440 km²
National language:	French	French
Government form:	Presidential republic	Presidential republic
Independent since:	1960 AD	1960 AD
Capital:	Yamoussoukro	Yaounde

Population

Details for Ivory Coast and Cameroon

	Ivory Coast	Cameroon
Population:	27,478,000	27,199,000
Inhabitants/km²:	85.2	57.2
Life expectancy males:	Ø 58 years	Ø 59 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 60 years	Ø 63 years
Average age:	Ø 20.3 years	Ø 18.5 years
Birth rate:	34.20 ‰	35.51 ‰
Death rate:	8.82 ‰	8.42 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.18 ‰	-0.31 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Ivory Coast	Cameroon
Political stability:	49	43
Civil rights:	36	19
Health:	11	12
Climate:	53	60
Cost of Living:	50	50
Popularity:	37	34

Economy

Details for Ivory Coast and Cameroon

	Ivory Coast	Cameroon
Currency:	West African franc	Central African franc
Unemployment rate:	3.5 %	3.9 %
Inflation rate:	4.09 %	2.27 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	42.67 %	41.93 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	50.10 %	57.70 %
Average income:	2,420 US$	1,590 US$
Corruption index:	64 (bad)	73 (very bad)

	CIV: total	per 1000 inh.	CMR: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	70,043 M US$	2.55 M US$	45,338 M US$	1.67 M US$
Gross national product:	66,460 M US$	2.42 M US$	43,216 M US$	1.59 M US$
Exported goods:	13,232 M US$	0.48 M US$	7,449 M US$	0.27 M US$
Imported goods:	12,660 M US$	0.46 M US$	9,027 M US$	0.33 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Ivory Coast and Cameroon

	CIV: total	per 1000 inh.	CMR: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	81,996 km	2.98 km	77,589 km	2.85 km
Railways:	660 km	0.02 km	987 km	0.04 km
Harbours:	25	0.0009	94	0.0035
Passenger airports:	2	0.0001	6	0.0002

Energy balance

Details for Ivory Coast and Cameroon

	CIV: total	per 1000 inh.	CMR: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	6.25 bn kWh	227,270.67 kWh	6.41 bn kWh	235,710.42 kWh
Energy production:	9.73 bn kWh	354,098.25 kWh	8.11 bn kWh	298,103.27 kWh
Energy export:	872.00 m kWh	31,734.19 kWh	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh
Energy imports:	19.00 m kWh	691.46 kWh	55.00 m kWh	2,022.16 kWh
CO2 emissions:	10.83 m t	394.13 t	9.43 m t	346.71 t

Telecommunication

Details for Ivory Coast and Cameroon

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

	CIV total	CIV per 1000 inh.	CMR total	CMR per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	264,073	10	964,378	35
Mobile cellulars:	40,095,246	1459	22,350,310	822
Internet server:	9,115	0	10,207	0
Internet users:	9,817,479	357	10,290,771	378
Broadband Internet:	335,041	12	722,579	27

Healthcare system

Details for Ivory Coast and Cameroon

	Ivory Coast	Cameroon
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	0.40	1.30
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.23	0.09
Diabetes:	2.4 %	6.0 %
Malaria:	330.6 %	247.0 %
HIV:	0.33 %	0.77 %
Tuberculosis:	1.28 ‰	1.64 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	84.0 %	86.0 %
Smokers:	9.4 %	7.3 %

Climate

We also provide a more detailed climate comparison of both countries.
The data for each country can be found here: Ivory Coast and Cameroon

	Ivory Coast	Cameroon
Daytime temperatures:	32.2 °C	30.9 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	22.1 °C	20.3 °C
Rel. humidity:	78 %	71 %
Rain days:	7.9	10.4
Sunshine hours per day:	6.3	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

Data inventory and updates

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