- ISO 3166
CM- Main language + region
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.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
14.3M
0%world median 81%100%
46% of 31M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
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 spending power, not revenue.
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 4.6%
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. 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 another language.
What people speak
Shares include second languages, so totals can exceed 100%.
Most spoken in Cameroon
share of 31M people
- Frenchofficial68%21.1M
- Englishofficial38%11.8M
- Bulu4.6%1.4M
- Fula3.6%1.1M
- Ewondo3.1%959.9K
- Yemba1.6%495.5K
- Ghomala1.4%433.5K
- Ngiemboon1.4%433.5K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%. 17 more languages sit below the top eight, at 10.8% combined.
CLDR records French in 64 territories and 333M speakers in total; Cameroon holds 6% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The French profile maps the whole footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (fr-CM).
Plural categories
3
Word-forms a translator writes for counted text, like English's "1 item" and "2 items".
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