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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Cameroon was 29,123,744 in 2024 vs 18,406,359 people in Guatemala in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Cameroon's population is 30,491,011 people compared to 18,912,872 in Guatemala.

Population statistics:

  • Cameroon's population is 1.61 times bigger than Guatemala's.
  • Cameroon is ranked the 51st most populous country in the world, while Guatemala is the 70th.
  • The countries together account for 0.6% of the world: 0.37% for Cameroon vs 0.23% for Guatemala.
  • For the last 10 years, Cameroon has had an average growth rate of +2.84% per year vs +1.64% in Guatemala.
  • Since 2005, the population of Cameroon has increased from 17.1M people to 30.5M (78.6% growth), while Guatemala has grown from 13.1M to 18.9M (44.5% growth).
  • Cameroon is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 88.9M people compared to the peak of 27.2M people in 2077 for Guatemala.

Cameroon vs Guatemala: live population counter

Cameroon Guatemala
Current population
30491011
18912872
Population rank 51/197 70/197
Percent of world population 0.37% 0.23%
One net population change
42 seconds
1.87 minutes
One birth every
32.9 seconds
1.39 minutes
One death every
2.59 minutes
6.01 minutes
One migration net change every
37.8 minutes
1.13 hours
Annual migration change -13,892 -7,725
Daily growth/decline +2,058 +771
Annual growth/decline +751,057 +281,521
Annual growth/decline rate +2.65% +1.55%
Population growth rate rank 24/197 71/197

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

Cameroon
Population

Growth rate
Guatemala
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Cameroon Guatemala Cameroon Guatemala
1960 5,159,057 4,063,655 - -
1961 5,239,273 4,186,201 1.55% 3.02%
1962 5,338,620 4,312,044 1.9% 3.01%
1963 5,456,623 4,440,264 2.21% 2.97%
1964 5,578,257 4,571,109 2.23% 2.95%
1965 5,704,686 4,704,965 2.27% 2.93%
1966 5,837,295 4,840,958 2.32% 2.89%
1967 5,977,318 4,978,862 2.4% 2.85%
1968 6,125,863 5,118,111 2.49% 2.8%
1969 6,283,462 5,257,081 2.57% 2.72%
1970 6,449,793 5,396,966 2.65% 2.66%
1971 6,624,408 5,538,355 2.71% 2.62%
1972 6,806,872 5,682,833 2.75% 2.61%
1973 6,996,660 5,831,631 2.79% 2.62%
1974 7,193,583 5,981,197 2.81% 2.56%
1975 7,397,120 6,128,731 2.83% 2.47%
1976 7,597,962 6,262,404 2.72% 2.18%
1977 7,796,501 6,401,515 2.61% 2.22%
1978 8,011,921 6,561,534 2.76% 2.5%
1979 8,239,641 6,727,797 2.84% 2.53%
1980 8,512,219 6,900,212 3.31% 2.56%
1981 8,816,377 7,075,648 3.57% 2.54%
1982 9,028,678 7,240,241 2.41% 2.33%
1983 9,215,397 7,419,642 2.07% 2.48%
1984 9,475,078 7,630,682 2.82% 2.84%
1985 9,761,730 7,849,693 3.03% 2.87%
1986 10,060,342 8,070,818 3.06% 2.82%
1987 10,370,749 8,296,485 3.09% 2.8%
1988 10,684,968 8,532,099 3.03% 2.84%
1989 11,002,745 8,775,546 2.97% 2.85%
1990 11,331,821 9,024,773 2.99% 2.84%
1991 11,667,180 9,272,584 2.96% 2.75%
1992 12,006,353 9,522,266 2.91% 2.69%
1993 12,353,131 9,779,761 2.89% 2.7%
1994 12,704,903 10,043,718 2.85% 2.7%
1995 13,058,516 10,312,996 2.78% 2.68%
1996 13,414,757 10,583,526 2.73% 2.62%
1997 13,775,214 10,857,754 2.69% 2.59%
1998 14,144,860 11,139,145 2.68% 2.59%
1999 14,525,140 11,422,965 2.69% 2.55%
2000 14,912,631 11,697,592 2.67% 2.4%
2001 15,309,490 11,969,422 2.66% 2.32%
2002 15,725,528 12,246,915 2.72% 2.32%
2003 16,160,340 12,525,842 2.77% 2.28%
2004 16,610,487 12,807,402 2.79% 2.25%
2005 17,074,594 13,087,629 2.79% 2.19%
2006 17,550,407 13,367,459 2.79% 2.14%
2007 18,049,896 13,652,040 2.85% 2.13%
2008 18,574,056 13,935,174 2.9% 2.07%
2009 19,113,974 14,215,611 2.91% 2.01%
2010 19,668,066 14,500,112 2.9% 2%
2011 20,232,304 14,792,126 2.87% 2.01%
2012 20,809,529 15,089,647 2.85% 2.01%
2013 21,402,376 15,387,337 2.85% 1.97%
2014 22,059,893 15,681,725 3.07% 1.91%
2015 22,763,414 15,971,743 3.19% 1.85%
2016 23,454,161 16,268,760 3.03% 1.86%
2017 24,128,601 16,567,357 2.88% 1.84%
2018 24,806,383 16,845,685 2.81% 1.68%
2019 25,506,095 17,103,803 2.82% 1.53%
2020 26,210,558 17,357,325 2.76% 1.48%
2021 26,915,758 17,598,650 2.69% 1.39%
2022 27,632,771 17,847,877 2.66% 1.42%
2023 28,372,687 18,124,838 2.68% 1.55%
2024 29,123,744 18,406,359 2.65% 1.55%
2025 29,879,335 18,687,873 2.59% 1.53%
2026 30,640,810 18,967,974 2.55% 1.5%
2027 31,410,378 19,246,005 2.51% 1.47%
2028 32,190,667 19,521,501 2.48% 1.43%
2029 32,979,275 19,795,168 2.45% 1.4%
2030 33,777,182 20,067,252 2.42% 1.37%
2031 34,584,118 20,337,369 2.39% 1.35%
2032 35,399,666 20,605,385 2.36% 1.32%
2033 36,223,480 20,871,083 2.33% 1.29%
2034 37,054,803 21,134,167 2.29% 1.26%
2035 37,893,817 21,394,231 2.26% 1.23%
2036 38,742,461 21,650,331 2.24% 1.2%
2037 39,600,369 21,901,955 2.21% 1.16%
2038 40,463,007 22,149,197 2.18% 1.13%
2039 41,332,840 22,391,079 2.15% 1.09%
2040 42,207,999 22,626,859 2.12% 1.05%
2041 43,089,974 22,856,760 2.09% 1.02%
2042 43,976,014 23,080,838 2.06% 0.98%
2043 44,857,795 23,299,226 2.01% 0.95%
2044 45,741,469 23,512,005 1.97% 0.91%
2045 46,629,033 23,719,080 1.94% 0.88%
2046 47,519,028 23,920,450 1.91% 0.85%
2047 48,413,775 24,115,734 1.88% 0.82%
2048 49,308,762 24,305,641 1.85% 0.79%
2049 50,203,267 24,491,000 1.81% 0.76%
2050 51,096,315 24,670,850 1.78% 0.73%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Cameroon increased by 5,688,820 people (a 33.3% growth), while Guatemala gained 2,884,114 people (a 22% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Cameroon gained 7,727,597 (a 33.9% growth), while Guatemala's population increased by 2,941,129 (a 18.4% growth).

Cameroon was ranked 59th most populous country in 2005 and is 51st in 2025. Guatemala was ranked 68th in 2005 and ranked 70th 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 Guatemala will increase by 30.4% to 24,670,850 people and rank change from 70th to 67th.

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