- Capital: Yaounde
- POPULATION: 17.341 Million
- LANGUAGES: English(official)\n French(official)
- Median age: 19
- Birth Rate per 1000 people: 33.89
- Death Rate per 1000 people: 13.47
- Life expectancy: 51.16
- Literacy(definition: age 15 and over can read and write)
  total population: 79%
  male: 84.7%
  female: 73.4% (2003 est.)
- Independence: 1 January 1960 from French-administered UN trusteeship
- GDP per capita: $1,900

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