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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Cameroon was 29,123,744 in 2024 vs 71,668,011 people in Thailand in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Cameroon's population is 30,491,011 people compared to 71,619,867 in Thailand.

Population statistics:

  • Thailand's population is 2.35 times bigger than Cameroon's.
  • Cameroon is ranked the 51st most populous country in the world, while Thailand is the 21st.
  • The countries together account for 1.24% of the world: 0.37% for Cameroon vs 0.87% for Thailand.
  • For the last 10 years, Cameroon has had an average growth rate of +2.84% per year vs +0.23% in Thailand.
  • Since 2005, the population of Cameroon has increased from 17.1M people to 30.5M (78.6% growth), while Thailand has grown from 66M to 71.6M (8.49% growth).
  • Cameroon is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 88.9M people, while Thailand's population already peaked in 2022 at 71.7M people and is projected to decrease to 45.6M people by 2100.

Cameroon vs Thailand: live population counter

Cameroon Thailand
Current population
30491011
71619867
Population rank 51/197 21/197
Percent of world population 0.37% 0.87%
One net population change
42 seconds
15.3 minutes
One birth every
32.9 seconds
53.3 seconds
One death every
2.59 minutes
49.5 seconds
One migration net change every
37.8 minutes
22.5 minutes
Annual migration change -13,892 +23,321
Daily growth/decline +2,058 -94
Annual growth/decline +751,057 -34,424
Annual growth/decline rate +2.65% -0.05%
Population growth rate rank 24/197 170/197

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

Cameroon
Population

Growth rate
Thailand
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Cameroon Thailand Cameroon Thailand
1960 5,159,057 26,851,747 - -
1961 5,239,273 27,650,334 1.55% 2.97%
1962 5,338,620 28,481,040 1.9% 3%
1963 5,456,623 29,342,322 2.21% 3.02%
1964 5,578,257 30,232,141 2.23% 3.03%
1965 5,704,686 31,149,337 2.27% 3.03%
1966 5,837,295 32,086,071 2.32% 3.01%
1967 5,977,318 33,037,801 2.4% 2.97%
1968 6,125,863 34,002,560 2.49% 2.92%
1969 6,283,462 34,973,782 2.57% 2.86%
1970 6,449,793 35,954,408 2.65% 2.8%
1971 6,624,408 36,937,387 2.71% 2.73%
1972 6,806,872 37,933,929 2.75% 2.7%
1973 6,996,660 38,947,787 2.79% 2.67%
1974 7,193,583 39,952,891 2.81% 2.58%
1975 7,397,120 40,940,005 2.83% 2.47%
1976 7,597,962 41,896,504 2.72% 2.34%
1977 7,796,501 42,843,974 2.61% 2.26%
1978 8,011,921 43,788,976 2.76% 2.21%
1979 8,239,641 44,718,434 2.84% 2.12%
1980 8,512,219 45,650,022 3.31% 2.08%
1981 8,816,377 46,575,855 3.57% 2.03%
1982 9,028,678 47,494,577 2.41% 1.97%
1983 9,215,397 48,423,309 2.07% 1.96%
1984 9,475,078 49,351,708 2.82% 1.92%
1985 9,761,730 50,270,753 3.03% 1.86%
1986 10,060,342 51,177,834 3.06% 1.8%
1987 10,370,749 52,074,105 3.09% 1.75%
1988 10,684,968 52,969,595 3.03% 1.72%
1989 11,002,745 53,848,956 2.97% 1.66%
1990 11,331,821 54,738,329 2.99% 1.65%
1991 11,667,180 55,637,434 2.96% 1.64%
1992 12,006,353 56,528,834 2.91% 1.6%
1993 12,353,131 57,408,198 2.89% 1.56%
1994 12,704,903 58,260,854 2.85% 1.49%
1995 13,058,516 59,098,232 2.78% 1.44%
1996 13,414,757 59,920,064 2.73% 1.39%
1997 13,775,214 60,724,584 2.69% 1.34%
1998 14,144,860 61,522,630 2.68% 1.31%
1999 14,525,140 62,299,043 2.69% 1.26%
2000 14,912,631 63,007,815 2.67% 1.14%
2001 15,309,490 63,651,141 2.66% 1.02%
2002 15,725,528 64,266,437 2.72% 0.97%
2003 16,160,340 64,868,166 2.77% 0.94%
2004 16,610,487 65,452,047 2.79% 0.9%
2005 17,074,594 66,017,420 2.79% 0.86%
2006 17,550,407 66,567,687 2.79% 0.83%
2007 18,049,896 67,102,394 2.85% 0.8%
2008 18,574,056 67,619,830 2.9% 0.77%
2009 19,113,974 68,121,080 2.91% 0.74%
2010 19,668,066 68,579,447 2.9% 0.67%
2011 20,232,304 69,007,208 2.87% 0.62%
2012 20,809,529 69,436,098 2.85% 0.62%
2013 21,402,376 69,845,114 2.85% 0.59%
2014 22,059,893 70,216,367 3.07% 0.53%
2015 22,763,414 70,540,795 3.19% 0.46%
2016 23,454,161 70,859,841 3.03% 0.45%
2017 24,128,601 71,160,187 2.88% 0.42%
2018 24,806,383 71,376,079 2.81% 0.3%
2019 25,506,095 71,522,271 2.82% 0.2%
2020 26,210,558 71,641,484 2.76% 0.17%
2021 26,915,758 71,727,332 2.69% 0.12%
2022 27,632,771 71,735,329 2.66% 0.01%
2023 28,372,687 71,702,435 2.68% -0.05%
2024 29,123,744 71,668,011 2.65% -0.05%
2025 29,879,335 71,619,867 2.59% -0.07%
2026 30,640,810 71,559,621 2.55% -0.08%
2027 31,410,378 71,488,156 2.51% -0.1%
2028 32,190,667 71,406,996 2.48% -0.11%
2029 32,979,275 71,316,195 2.45% -0.13%
2030 33,777,182 71,215,017 2.42% -0.14%
2031 34,584,118 71,104,025 2.39% -0.16%
2032 35,399,666 70,982,286 2.36% -0.17%
2033 36,223,480 70,847,947 2.33% -0.19%
2034 37,054,803 70,701,651 2.29% -0.21%
2035 37,893,817 70,540,884 2.26% -0.23%
2036 38,742,461 70,366,496 2.24% -0.25%
2037 39,600,369 70,180,031 2.21% -0.26%
2038 40,463,007 69,979,034 2.18% -0.29%
2039 41,332,840 69,763,928 2.15% -0.31%
2040 42,207,999 69,535,003 2.12% -0.33%
2041 43,089,974 69,288,477 2.09% -0.35%
2042 43,976,014 69,025,348 2.06% -0.38%
2043 44,857,795 68,748,075 2.01% -0.4%
2044 45,741,469 68,456,533 1.97% -0.42%
2045 46,629,033 68,150,148 1.94% -0.45%
2046 47,519,028 67,827,309 1.91% -0.47%
2047 48,413,775 67,489,358 1.88% -0.5%
2048 49,308,762 67,136,737 1.85% -0.52%
2049 50,203,267 66,767,316 1.81% -0.55%
2050 51,096,315 66,382,732 1.78% -0.58%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Cameroon increased by 5,688,820 people (a 33.3% growth), while Thailand gained 4,523,375 people (a 6.85% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Cameroon gained 7,727,597 (a 33.9% growth), while Thailand's population increased by 1,079,072 (a 1.53% growth).

Cameroon was ranked 59th most populous country in 2005 and is 51st in 2025. Thailand was ranked 19th in 2005 and ranked 21st 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 Thailand will decrease by 7.31% to 66,382,732 people and rank change from 21st to 31st.

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