Population in Cameroon compared to Germany: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Cameroon and Germany: population history and growth rate by year chart

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Cameroon	Germany	Cameroon	Germany
1960	5,159,057	72,814,900	-	-
1961	5,239,273	73,377,632	1.55%	0.77%
1962	5,338,620	74,025,784	1.9%	0.88%
1963	5,456,623	74,714,353	2.21%	0.93%
1964	5,578,257	75,318,337	2.23%	0.81%
1965	5,704,686	75,963,695	2.27%	0.86%
1966	5,837,295	76,600,311	2.32%	0.84%
1967	5,977,318	76,951,336	2.4%	0.46%
1968	6,125,863	77,294,314	2.49%	0.45%
1969	6,283,462	77,909,682	2.57%	0.8%
1970	6,449,793	78,169,289	2.65%	0.33%
1971	6,624,408	78,312,842	2.71%	0.18%
1972	6,806,872	78,688,452	2.75%	0.48%
1973	6,996,660	78,936,666	2.79%	0.32%
1974	7,193,583	78,967,433	2.81%	0.04%
1975	7,397,120	78,673,554	2.83%	-0.37%
1976	7,597,962	78,336,950	2.72%	-0.43%
1977	7,796,501	78,159,814	2.61%	-0.23%
1978	8,011,921	78,091,820	2.76%	-0.09%
1979	8,239,641	78,126,350	2.84%	0.04%
1980	8,512,219	78,288,576	3.31%	0.21%
1981	8,816,377	78,407,907	3.57%	0.15%
1982	9,028,678	78,333,366	2.41%	-0.1%
1983	9,215,397	78,128,282	2.07%	-0.26%
1984	9,475,078	77,858,685	2.82%	-0.35%
1985	9,761,730	77,684,873	3.03%	-0.22%
1986	10,060,342	77,720,436	3.06%	0.05%
1987	10,370,749	77,839,920	3.09%	0.15%
1988	10,684,968	78,144,619	3.03%	0.39%
1989	11,002,745	78,751,283	2.97%	0.78%
1990	11,331,821	79,433,029	2.99%	0.87%
1991	11,667,180	80,013,896	2.96%	0.73%
1992	12,006,353	80,624,598	2.91%	0.76%
1993	12,353,131	81,156,363	2.89%	0.66%
1994	12,704,903	81,438,348	2.85%	0.35%
1995	13,058,516	81,678,051	2.78%	0.29%
1996	13,414,757	81,914,831	2.73%	0.29%
1997	13,775,214	82,034,771	2.69%	0.15%
1998	14,144,860	82,047,195	2.68%	0.02%
1999	14,525,140	82,100,243	2.69%	0.06%
2000	14,912,631	82,211,508	2.67%	0.14%
2001	15,309,490	82,349,925	2.66%	0.17%
2002	15,725,528	82,488,495	2.72%	0.17%
2003	16,160,340	82,534,176	2.77%	0.06%
2004	16,610,487	82,516,260	2.79%	-0.02%
2005	17,074,594	82,469,422	2.79%	-0.06%
2006	17,550,407	82,376,451	2.79%	-0.11%
2007	18,049,896	82,266,372	2.85%	-0.13%
2008	18,574,056	82,110,097	2.9%	-0.19%
2009	19,113,974	81,902,307	2.91%	-0.25%
2010	19,668,066	81,776,930	2.9%	-0.15%
2011	20,232,304	80,274,983	2.87%	-1.84%
2012	20,809,529	80,425,823	2.85%	0.19%
2013	21,402,376	80,645,605	2.85%	0.27%
2014	22,059,893	80,982,500	3.07%	0.42%
2015	22,763,414	81,686,611	3.19%	0.87%
2016	23,454,161	82,348,669	3.03%	0.81%
2017	24,128,601	82,657,002	2.88%	0.37%
2018	24,806,383	82,905,782	2.81%	0.3%
2019	25,506,095	83,092,962	2.82%	0.23%
2020	26,210,558	83,160,871	2.76%	0.08%
2021	26,915,758	83,196,078	2.69%	0.04%
2022	27,632,771	83,797,985	2.66%	0.72%
2023	28,372,687	83,901,923	2.68%	0.12%
2024	29,123,744	83,510,950	2.65%	-0.47%
2025	29,879,335	83,039,665	2.59%	-0.56%
2026	30,640,810	82,614,154	2.55%	-0.51%
2027	31,410,378	82,415,087	2.51%	-0.24%
2028	32,190,667	82,204,095	2.48%	-0.26%
2029	32,979,275	81,983,207	2.45%	-0.27%
2030	33,777,182	81,761,486	2.42%	-0.27%
2031	34,584,118	81,535,782	2.39%	-0.28%
2032	35,399,666	81,309,833	2.36%	-0.28%
2033	36,223,480	81,088,671	2.33%	-0.27%
2034	37,054,803	80,874,239	2.29%	-0.26%
2035	37,893,817	80,664,119	2.26%	-0.26%
2036	38,742,461	80,440,400	2.24%	-0.28%
2037	39,600,369	80,216,687	2.21%	-0.28%
2038	40,463,007	79,996,530	2.18%	-0.27%
2039	41,332,840	79,775,309	2.15%	-0.28%
2040	42,207,999	79,559,716	2.12%	-0.27%
2041	43,089,974	79,356,179	2.09%	-0.26%
2042	43,976,014	79,162,051	2.06%	-0.24%
2043	44,857,795	78,957,628	2.01%	-0.26%
2044	45,741,469	78,737,840	1.97%	-0.28%
2045	46,629,033	78,512,825	1.94%	-0.29%
2046	47,519,028	78,288,289	1.91%	-0.29%
2047	48,413,775	78,060,952	1.88%	-0.29%
2048	49,308,762	77,820,753	1.85%	-0.31%
2049	50,203,267	77,573,634	1.81%	-0.32%
2050	51,096,315	77,330,385	1.78%	-0.31%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Cameroon increased by 5,688,820 people (a 33.3% growth), while Germany lost 782,811 people (a 0.95% decline).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Cameroon gained 7,727,597 (a 33.9% growth), while Germany's population increased by 1,353,054 (a 1.66% growth).

Cameroon was ranked 59th most populous country in 2005 and is 51st in 2025. Germany was ranked 13th in 2005 and ranked 19th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Cameroon's population will grow by 67.6% to 51,096,315 people with a rank change from 51st to 41st. The population of Germany will decrease by 6.88% to 77,330,385 people and rank change from 19th to 24th.