Cameroon vs Uganda: Population growth

Cameroon
2.6%
in 2025
Uganda
2.7%
in 2025
Cameroon rank
22nd
Uganda rank
21st

Population growth over time

  • Cameroon
  • Uganda
01234196119932025

How they compare

Uganda currently reports 2.7% against 2.6% in Cameroon, a difference of 0.1%.

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

The two have swapped places 10 times across 65 shared years of data; in 1961 it was Uganda ahead.

Globally, Cameroon ranks 22nd and Uganda ranks 21st 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
Last refreshed

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.