Growth: Real GDP per capita rises just 0.6% in Cameroon in 2025, compared with 4% in Côte d’Ivoire

According to the World Bank, Cameroon’s real GDP per capita grew by just 0.6% in 2025, compared with 4% in Côte d’Ivoire, despite Cameroon’s overall economic growth of 3.2%. Population growth of 2.6% limited the increase in output per person. In its CEMAC Economic Barometer published in September 2026, the World Bank said Cameroon’s per capita income remained about 20% below its level in the mid-1980s. The institution cited low productivity, infrastructure shortcomings, governance problems and successive economic shocks as factors holding back the recovery.