- ISO 3166
CM- Primary locale
fr-CM- Currency
- XAF · Central African CFA Franc
- Region
- EMEA · SSA
Cameroon
Cameroon has 31M people, and 14.3M of them are online. French is the most widely spoken language at 68%, one of 25 languages CLDR lists here. French and English are official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to fr-CM.
At a glance
Each figure is drawn against the rest of the world, so a number means something before you have any other market to compare it with.
People online
14.3M
0%world median 81%100%
46% of 31M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. CLDR population multiplied by that share, so read it as an estimate rather than a headcount.
Income per person
$1,972
Higher than 17% of 213 territories
GDP per capita in current US dollars, World Bank Open Data, most recent reported year. A rough guide to what people can spend, not what your product will earn.
Can pay online
61%
0%world median 71%100%
Adults aged 15 and over holding a bank or mobile-money account, World Bank Global Findex 2024. Below half means a card-only checkout excludes most of the market.
Languages
25
French 68% · English 38% · Bulu 5%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 2 of them are official nationally.
English proficiency
445
Very lowVery high
Very low proficiency on the EF EPI 2025 scale. The sample is self-selected online test takers, so treat it as colour for a discussion. It never enters any score on this site.
Adult literacy
71%
0%world median 95%100%
Share of adults who can read, as recorded in CLDR territory data. Low literacy shifts a product toward icons, audio, and video before it shifts toward another language.
What people speak
Shares count first and second languages, so they sum past 100% and one bilingual person is counted twice.
Most spoken in Cameroon
share of 31M people
- Frenchofficial68%21.1M
- Englishofficial38%11.8M
- Bulu5%1.4M
- Fula4%1.1M
- Ewondo3%959.9K
- Yemba2%495.5K
- Ghomala1%433.5K
- Ngiemboon1%433.5K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Every bar is drawn against the largest language rather than against 100%, so a 1% language stays visible. 17 more languages sit below the top eight, at 10.7% combined.
One country understates a language. CLDR records diaspora too, so a language usually reaches further than any single page shows. The language profiles show each one's full footprint.
What you would ship
Configuration for day one, computed live with Intl.* against fr-CM, the dominant locale for this market.
Plural categories
3
Standard. Use Intl.PluralRules for the few cases that matter.
Script family
Latin
Default system fonts cover this script on all major platforms.
Reading direction
Left-to-right
Standard. Use dir='auto' on user-generated content fields.
Date
21 avril 2026
Short: 21/04/2026
Time
18:30
Week starts Mon
Currency
1 235 FCFA
1,234.56 in XAF · Central African CFA Franc