Country comparison: Cameroon / Gabon

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

General information

	Cameroon	Gabon
Region:	Central Africa	Central Africa
Area:	475,440 km²	267,670 km²
National language:	French	French
Government form:	Presidential republic	Presidential republic
Independent since:	1960 AD	1960 AD
Capital:	Yaounde	Libreville

Population

Details for Cameroon and Gabon

	Cameroon	Gabon
Population:	27,199,000	2,341,000
Inhabitants/km²:	57.2	8.7
Life expectancy males:	Ø 59 years	Ø 64 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 63 years	Ø 69 years
Average age:	Ø 18.5 years	Ø 21.0 years
Birth rate:	35.51 ‰	27.70 ‰
Death rate:	8.42 ‰	6.91 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.31 ‰	3.67 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Cameroon	Gabon
Political stability:	43	57
Civil rights:	18	25
Health:	12	31
Climate:	60	45
Cost of Living:	50	67
Popularity:	34	73

Economy

Details for Cameroon and Gabon

	Cameroon	Gabon
Currency:	Central African franc	Central African franc
Unemployment rate:	4.1 %	21.8 %
Inflation rate:	2.27 %	1.18 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	41.93 %	59.20 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	57.70 %	47.10 %
Average income:	1,590 US$	6,440 US$
Corruption index:	74 (very bad)	71 (very bad)

	CMR: total	per 1000 inh.	GAB: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	45,338 M US$	1.67 M US$	20,217 M US$	8.64 M US$
Gross national product:	43,216 M US$	1.59 M US$	15,076 M US$	6.44 M US$
Exported goods:	7,449 M US$	0.27 M US$	5,390 M US$	2.30 M US$
Imported goods:	9,027 M US$	0.33 M US$	5,049 M US$	2.16 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Cameroon and Gabon

	CMR: total	per 1000 inh.	GAB: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	77,589 km	2.85 km	14,300 km	6.11 km
Railways:	987 km	0.04 km	810 km	0.35 km
Harbours:	94	0.0035	62	0.0265
Passenger airports:	6	0.0002	9	0.0038

Energy balance

Details for Cameroon and Gabon

	CMR: total	per 1000 inh.	GAB: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	6.41 bn kWh	235,710.42 kWh	2.07 bn kWh	884,597.03 kWh
Energy production:	8.11 bn kWh	298,103.27 kWh	2.24 bn kWh	958,491.43 kWh
Energy imports:	55.00 m kWh	2,022.16 kWh	344.00 m kWh	146,934.51 kWh
CO2 emissions:	9.43 m t	346.71 t	5.25 m t	2,242.46 t

Telecommunication

Details for Cameroon and Gabon

	Cameroon	Gabon
International dialing:	+237	+241
Internet domain:	.cm	.ga

	CMR total	CMR per 1000 inh.	GAB total	GAB per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	739,572	27	31,708	14
Mobile cellulars:	22,442,414	825	3,144,609	1343
Internet server:	10,207	0	127	0
Internet users:	10,281,081	378	1,451,531	620
Broadband Internet:	722,579	27	62,985	27

Healthcare system

Details for Cameroon and Gabon

	Cameroon	Gabon
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	1.30	6.30
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.09	0.36
Diabetes:	6.0 %	6.0 %
Malaria:	247.0 %	248.2 %
HIV:	0.77 %	1.15 %
Tuberculosis:	1.64 ‰	5.13 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	86.0 %	63.0 %

Climate

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

	Cameroon	Gabon
Daytime temperatures:	30.9 °C	29.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	20.3 °C	21.9 °C
Rel. humidity:	71 %	85 %
Rain days:	10.4	9.6
Sunshine hours per day:	6.3	4.6

Native languages

	Cameroon	Gabon
Fang:	19.7 %	32.0 %
Bamileke-bamum:	18.6 %	n/a
Punu:	n/a	17.1 %
Mpongwe:	n/a	14.6 %
Duala:	10.9 %	n/a
Fula:	9.6 %	n/a
Tikar:	7.4 %	n/a
Mandara:	5.7 %	n/a
Maka:	4.9 %	n/a
Masana:	3.9 %	n/a
French:	3.0 %	2.0 %
English:	2.0 %	n/a
other:	14.3 %	34.3 %

Religions

	Cameroon	Gabon
Christianity:	40.0 %	83.0 %
Native religions:	40.0 %	n/a
Islam:	20.0 %	10.0 %
Animism:	n/a	0.6 %
other:	0.0 %	6.4 %

Data inventory and updates

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