Cameroon - Population density

Population density (people per sq. km of land area)

The value for Population density (people per sq. km of land area) in Cameroon was 56.16 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 56.16 in 2020 and a minimum value of 11.18 in 1961.

Definition: Population density is midyear population divided by land area in square kilometers. Population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship--except for refugees not permanently settled in the country of asylum, who are generally considered part of the population of their country of origin. Land area is a country's total area, excluding area under inland water bodies, national claims to continental shelf, and exclusive economic zones. In most cases the definition of inland water bodies includes major rivers and lakes.

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization and World Bank population estimates.

See also:

Year Value
1961 11.18
1962 11.42
1963 11.67
1964 11.94
1965 12.21
1966 12.50
1967 12.80
1968 13.12
1969 13.45
1970 13.79
1971 14.15
1972 14.53
1973 14.92
1974 15.33
1975 15.76
1976 16.21
1977 16.69
1978 17.18
1979 17.70
1980 18.24
1981 18.80
1982 19.39
1983 20.00
1984 20.64
1985 21.30
1986 21.99
1987 22.70
1988 23.43
1989 24.17
1990 24.92
1991 25.68
1992 26.44
1993 27.21
1994 27.99
1995 28.77
1996 29.55
1997 30.35
1998 31.15
1999 31.97
2000 32.82
2001 33.70
2002 34.60
2003 35.54
2004 36.51
2005 37.51
2006 38.55
2007 39.62
2008 40.73
2009 41.86
2010 43.03
2011 44.23
2012 45.45
2013 46.70
2014 47.98
2015 49.29
2016 50.62
2017 51.97
2018 53.34
2019 54.74
2020 56.16

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Density & urbanization