The 2008 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency
(2001)
Oil - production:
87,400 bbl/day (2008 est.)
Oil - consumption:
24,500 bbl/day (2006 est.)
Oil - exports:
108,800 bbl/day (2005)
Oil - imports:
50,750 bbl/day (2005)
Oil - proved reserves:
200 million bbl (1 January 2008 est.)
Natural gas - production:
20 million cu m (2006 est.)
Natural gas - consumption:
20 million cu m (2006 est.)
Natural gas - exports:
0 cu m (2007 est.)
Natural gas - imports:
0 cu m (2007 est.)
Natural gas - proved reserves:
135.1 billion cu m (1 January 2008 est.)
Current account balance:
-$325 million (2007 est.)
Exports:
$3.827 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.)
Exports - commodities:
crude oil and petroleum products, lumber, cocoa beans, aluminum, coffee, cotton
Exports - partners:
Spain 19.8%, Italy 15.7%, France 11.7%, South Korea 9.4%,
Netherlands 6.1%, US 5.7% (2007)
Imports:
$3.714 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.)
Imports - commodities:
machinery, electrical equipment, transport equipment, fuel, food
Imports - partners:
France 23.4%, Nigeria 12.8%, China 9%, Belgium 5.8%, US 4% (2007)
Economic aid - recipient:
$413.8 million (2005)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$2.932 billion (31 December 2007 est.)
Debt - external:
$2.554 billion (31 December 2007 est.)
Market value of publicly traded shares:
$NA
Currency (code):
Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (XAF); note - responsible authority is the Bank of the Central African States
Currency code:
XAF
Exchange rates:
Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (XAF) per US dollar - 493.51 (2007), 522.59 (2006), 527.47 (2005), 528.29 (2004), 581.2 (2003)
Communications
Cameroon
Telephones - main lines in use:
130,700 (2006)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
4.536 million (2007)
Telephone system:
general assessment: fixed-line connections stand at less than 1 per 100 persons; equipment is old and outdated, and connections with many parts of the country are unreliable; mobile-cellular usage, in part a reflection of the poor condition and general inadequacy of the fixed-line network, increased more than 6-fold between 2002 and 2007 reaching a subscribership base of 25 per 100 persons domestic: cable, microwave radio relay, and tropospheric scatter international: country code - 237; landing point for the SAT-3/WASC fiber-optic submarine cable that provides connectivity to Europe and Asia; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2007)
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 2, FM 9, shortwave 3 (2001)
Radios:
2.27 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations:
1 (2001)
Televisions:
450,000 (1997)
Internet country code:
.cm
Internet hosts:
69 (2008)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
1 (2002)
Internet users:
370,000 (2006)
Transportation
Cameroon
Airports:
45 (2007)
Airports - with paved runways:
total: 11 over 3,047 m: 2 2,438 to 3,047 m: 4 1,524 to 2,437 m: 3 914 to 1,523 m: 1 under 914 m: 1 (2007)
Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 34 1,524 to 2,437 m: 6 914 to 1,523 m: 20 under 914 m: 8 (2007)
Pipelines:
gas 27 km; liquid petroleum gas 5 km; oil 1,110 km (2007)
Railways:
total: 987 km narrow gauge: 987 km 1.000-m gauge (2006)
Roadways:
total: 50,000 km paved: 5,000 km unpaved: 45,000 km (2004)
Waterways:
navigation mainly on Benue River; limited during rainy season (2005)
Ports and terminals:
Douala, Limboh Terminal
Military
Cameroon
Military branches:
Cameroon Armed Forces: Army, Navy (includes naval infantry), Air
Force (Armee de l'Air du Cameroun, AAC) (2008)
Military service age and obligation:
18 years of age for voluntary military service; no conscription; the government makes periodic calls for volunteers (2006)
Manpower available for military service:
males age 16–49: 4,321,175 females age 16–49: 4,228,625 (2008 est.)
Manpower fit for military service:
males age 16–49: 2,567,428 females age 16–49: 2,498,990 (2008 est.)
Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:
male: 212,205 female: 207,545 (2008 est.)
Military expenditures:
1.3% of GDP (2006)
Transnational Issues
Cameroon
Disputes - international:
Joint Border Commission with Nigeria reviewed 2002 ICJ ruling on the entire boundary and bilaterally resolved differences, including June 2006 Greentree Agreement that immediately ceded sovereignty of the Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroon with a full phase-out of Nigerian control and patriation of residents in 2008; Cameroon and Nigeria agree on maritime delimitation in March 2008; sovereignty dispute between Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon over an island at the mouth of the Ntem River; only Nigeria and Cameroon have heeded the Lake Chad Commission's admonition