Population in Cameroon compared to Papua New Guinea: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Cameroon and Papua New Guinea: population history and growth rate by year chart

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Cameroon	Papua New Guinea	Cameroon	Papua New Guinea
1960	5,159,057	1,995,110	-	-
1961	5,239,273	2,046,127	1.55%	2.56%
1962	5,338,620	2,093,919	1.9%	2.34%
1963	5,456,623	2,141,376	2.21%	2.27%
1964	5,578,257	2,188,325	2.23%	2.19%
1965	5,704,686	2,235,820	2.27%	2.17%
1966	5,837,295	2,285,774	2.32%	2.23%
1967	5,977,318	2,337,532	2.4%	2.26%
1968	6,125,863	2,390,803	2.49%	2.28%
1969	6,283,462	2,446,927	2.57%	2.35%
1970	6,449,793	2,505,628	2.65%	2.4%
1971	6,624,408	2,566,421	2.71%	2.43%
1972	6,806,872	2,628,432	2.75%	2.42%
1973	6,996,660	2,690,629	2.79%	2.37%
1974	7,193,583	2,752,671	2.81%	2.31%
1975	7,397,120	2,814,820	2.83%	2.26%
1976	7,597,962	2,877,327	2.72%	2.22%
1977	7,796,501	2,940,327	2.61%	2.19%
1978	8,011,921	3,003,714	2.76%	2.16%
1979	8,239,641	3,067,341	2.84%	2.12%
1980	8,512,219	3,131,512	3.31%	2.09%
1981	8,816,377	3,197,019	3.57%	2.09%
1982	9,028,678	3,264,291	2.41%	2.1%
1983	9,215,397	3,333,633	2.07%	2.12%
1984	9,475,078	3,405,198	2.82%	2.15%
1985	9,761,730	3,478,936	3.03%	2.17%
1986	10,060,342	3,554,793	3.06%	2.18%
1987	10,370,749	3,632,543	3.09%	2.19%
1988	10,684,968	3,711,880	3.03%	2.18%
1989	11,002,745	3,796,078	2.97%	2.27%
1990	11,331,821	3,896,481	2.99%	2.64%
1991	11,667,180	4,021,837	2.96%	3.22%
1992	12,006,353	4,166,699	2.91%	3.6%
1993	12,353,131	4,320,872	2.89%	3.7%
1994	12,704,903	4,480,208	2.85%	3.69%
1995	13,058,516	4,644,278	2.78%	3.66%
1996	13,414,757	4,813,361	2.73%	3.64%
1997	13,775,214	4,987,883	2.69%	3.63%
1998	14,144,860	5,166,390	2.68%	3.58%
1999	14,525,140	5,349,333	2.69%	3.54%
2000	14,912,631	5,537,064	2.67%	3.51%
2001	15,309,490	5,728,435	2.66%	3.46%
2002	15,725,528	5,924,003	2.72%	3.41%
2003	16,160,340	6,123,997	2.77%	3.38%
2004	16,610,487	6,328,041	2.79%	3.33%
2005	17,074,594	6,535,905	2.79%	3.28%
2006	17,550,407	6,747,720	2.79%	3.24%
2007	18,049,896	6,963,345	2.85%	3.2%
2008	18,574,056	7,183,002	2.9%	3.15%
2009	19,113,974	7,406,438	2.91%	3.11%
2010	19,668,066	7,633,523	2.9%	3.07%
2011	20,232,304	7,859,346	2.87%	2.96%
2012	20,809,529	8,081,390	2.85%	2.83%
2013	21,402,376	8,302,698	2.85%	2.74%
2014	22,059,893	8,523,441	3.07%	2.66%
2015	22,763,414	8,743,246	3.19%	2.58%
2016	23,454,161	8,961,718	3.03%	2.5%
2017	24,128,601	9,178,714	2.88%	2.42%
2018	24,806,383	9,394,513	2.81%	2.35%
2019	25,506,095	9,609,010	2.82%	2.28%
2020	26,210,558	9,815,746	2.76%	2.15%
2021	26,915,758	10,012,896	2.69%	2.01%
2022	27,632,771	10,203,169	2.66%	1.9%
2023	28,372,687	10,389,635	2.68%	1.83%
2024	29,123,744	10,576,502	2.65%	1.8%
2025	29,879,335	10,762,813	2.59%	1.76%
2026	30,640,810	10,947,845	2.55%	1.72%
2027	31,410,378	11,131,268	2.51%	1.68%
2028	32,190,667	11,312,895	2.48%	1.63%
2029	32,979,275	11,492,799	2.45%	1.59%
2030	33,777,182	11,671,420	2.42%	1.55%
2031	34,584,118	11,848,221	2.39%	1.51%
2032	35,399,666	12,023,121	2.36%	1.48%
2033	36,223,480	12,196,639	2.33%	1.44%
2034	37,054,803	12,369,248	2.29%	1.42%
2035	37,893,817	12,540,596	2.26%	1.39%
2036	38,742,461	12,710,682	2.24%	1.36%
2037	39,600,369	12,879,737	2.21%	1.33%
2038	40,463,007	13,047,122	2.18%	1.3%
2039	41,332,840	13,212,668	2.15%	1.27%
2040	42,207,999	13,376,156	2.12%	1.24%
2041	43,089,974	13,537,361	2.09%	1.21%
2042	43,976,014	13,696,139	2.06%	1.17%
2043	44,857,795	13,853,410	2.01%	1.15%
2044	45,741,469	14,009,926	1.97%	1.13%
2045	46,629,033	14,165,578	1.94%	1.11%
2046	47,519,028	14,318,889	1.91%	1.08%
2047	48,413,775	14,469,210	1.88%	1.05%
2048	49,308,762	14,617,364	1.85%	1.02%
2049	50,203,267	14,763,600	1.81%	1%
2050	51,096,315	14,906,584	1.78%	0.97%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Cameroon increased by 5,688,820 people (a 33.3% growth), while Papua New Guinea gained 2,207,341 people (a 33.8% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Cameroon gained 7,727,597 (a 33.9% growth), while Papua New Guinea's population increased by 2,168,199 (a 24.8% growth).

Cameroon was ranked 59th most populous country in 2005 and is 51st in 2025. Papua New Guinea was ranked 100th in 2005 and ranked 90th 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 Papua New Guinea will increase by 36.6% to 14,906,584 people and rank change from 90th to 85th.