Burundi vs Cameroon: Population growth

Burundi
2.4%
in 2025
Cameroon
2.6%
in 2025
Burundi rank
25th
Cameroon rank
22nd

Population growth over time

  • Burundi
  • Cameroon
-4-20246196119932025

How they compare

Cameroon currently reports 2.6% against 2.4% in Burundi, a difference of 0.2%.

That makes Cameroon's figure about 1.1 times Burundi's.

The two have swapped places 13 times across 65 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Burundi ahead.

Globally, Burundi ranks 25th and Cameroon ranks 22nd of 215 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Population growth (annual %)
Unit
annual %
Source
World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), note: Derived from total population, publisher: UN Population Division
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
264 places, 17,128 data points, 1961–2025
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Annual population growth rate for year t is the exponential rate of growth of midyear population from year t-1 to t, expressed as a percentage. Population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship.