Facts and Figures

Full name: Cameroon

Nationality 
        noun: Cameroonian(s)
        adjective: Cameroonian
 

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Area  
        total: 475,440 sq km
        water: 6,000 sq km 
        land: 469,440 sq km

Population: 16,380,005
        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 (July 2005 est.)

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% 

Capital: Yaounde 1,380,000 

Largest Cities 
        Douala - 1,450,000 
        Garoua - 180,000
        Maroua - 150,000

Official Language  
        24 major African language groups
        English (official)
        French (official) 

Religion 
        indigenous beliefs 40% 
        Christian 40%
        Muslim 20%

Political system: Republic

GDP: purchasing power parity - $30.17 billion (2004 est.) 

GDP per head: purchasing power parity - $1,900 (2004 est.)  

Annual growth: 4.9% (2004 est.)

GDP - composition by sector
        agriculture: 43.7% 
        industry: 20.1% 
        services: 36.2% (2004 est.) 

Inflation: 1% (2004 est.)

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