Cameroon demographics cont'd.
The following demographic statistics are from the CIA World Factbook, unless otherwise indicated.
Source of graph : Data FAOSTAT, year 2005 (last updated 10th february 2005) Click on the graph for a bigger version.
Subject: Estimated number of inhabitants (in thousands), based on 2005 data from the Food and Agriculture Organization.
Population
17,340,702 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 2006 est.)
Age structure
0-14 years: 41.2% (male 3,614,430/female 3,531,047)
15-64 years: 55.5% (male 4,835,453/female 4,796,276)
65 years and over: 3.2% (male 260,342/female 303,154) (2006 est.)
Birth rate
33.89 births/1,000 population (2006 est.)
Death rate
13.47 deaths/1,000 population (2006 est.)
Sex ratio
At birth: 1.03 male(s)/female
Under 15 years: 1.02 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.01 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.86 male(s)/female
Total population: 1.01 male(s)/female (2006 est.)
Infant mortality rate
Total: 63.52 deaths/1,000 live births
Male: 67.38 deaths/1,000 live births
Female: 59.53 deaths/1,000 live births (2006 est.)
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