Cameroon
Republic of Cameroon
- Capital
- Yaoundé
- Region
- Middle Africa
- Population, 2025
- 30 million
- Currency
- XAF
- Area
- 475,442 km²
Across Cameroon's 6 priced cities, one person needs about $826 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $192.
Livability
The same seven domains as for cities, scored at country level; safety falls back to the homicide rate where Numbeo has no survey.
- Purchasing power25%15
- Safety20%35
- Health care15%No data
- Climate10%No data
- Air quality10%85
- Connectivity10%2
- Cost10%85
How each domain is scored
- Purchasing power, 25%
- What a local net salary buys against local prices, as a percentile.
- Safety, 20%
- Numbeo safety index for the city, or for its country when the city has no survey.
- Health care, 15%
- Numbeo health care index, city first, then country.
- Climate, 10%
- Numbeo climate index where surveyed, otherwise a comfort score from NASA climate normals.
- Air quality, 10%
- 30-day mean US AQI on a 0-100 scale: 100 at AQI 25 or cleaner, 0 at 150 or worse.
- Connectivity, 10%
- Percentile of median fixed broadband download speed, city first, then country.
- Cost, 10%
- Cheaper places score higher: the percentile of the cost-of-living plus rent index, inverted.
What it costs
Averages over the country’s cities, weighted by population. New York = 100.
Economy
World Bank development indicators; each figure is the latest year with data.
Taxes
Headline rates side by side from three references, with the source of each.
- Top income tax rate
- 38.5%
- SourcePwC
- Lowest income tax rate
- 10%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 33%
- SourcePwC
- VAT or sales tax
- 19.3%
- SourcePwC
- Social security, employee
- 4.2%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Social security, employer
- 16.2%
- SourceTrading Economics
Headline statutory rates as of Sep 2026; brackets, allowances and regional taxes change what a given person pays.
Safety and internet
Numbeo’s crime survey, the World Bank homicide series and the Speedtest Global Index.
Safety
- Safety indexNumbeo, higher is safer
- 35.2
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 64.8
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2022
- 6.8
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #146 worldwide
- 15
- Mobile downloadMbps, median
- —
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- +40%
Cities in Cameroon
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Ngaoundéré | 61 | — | — | — | — | 238.2K | Low confidence |
| 2Bertoua | 59 | — | — | — | — | 138K | Low confidence |
| 3Ébolowa | 58 | — | — | — | — | 101.4K | Low confidence |
| 4Limbe | 58 | 42.2 | — | — | — | 131.4K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 5Bafoussam | 57 | 51.3 | — | — | — | 373.3K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 6Kumbo | 56 | — | — | — | — | 125.1K | Low confidence |
| 7Foumban | 56 | — | — | — | — | 130.3K | Low confidence |
| 8Edéa | 54 | — | — | — | — | 103.9K | Low confidence |
| 9Nkongsamba | 54 | — | — | — | — | 162.3K | Low confidence |
| 10Maroua | 51 | — | — | — | — | 314.1K | Low confidence |
| 11Kumba | 51 | — | — | — | — | 225K | Low confidence |
| 12Kousséri | 51 | — | — | — | — | 139K | Low confidence |
| 13Yaounde | 49 | 32.8 | $145 | $192 | 34.4 | 1.3M | Medium confidence, 11 contributors |
| 14Bamenda | 46 | 37.0 | $70.00 | $98.59 | 18.0 | 420.4K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 15Buea | 45 | 46.3 | — | $133 | 18.4 | 140.5K | Medium confidence, 6 contributors |
| 16Douala | 38 | 51.8 | $574 | $231 | 19.5 | 1.3M | Medium confidence, 12 contributors |