Cameroon: Mortality from CVD, cancer, diabetes or CRD between exact ages 30 and 70, female (%)

Key figures

What the numbers say

In 2021, Cameroon's mortality from CVD, cancer, diabetes or CRD between exact ages 30 and 70, female (%) rose 0.4 percentage points on 2020 (from 23% to 23.4%).

Across the 20 yearly changes before that (2001 to 2020), the average change was −0.04 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.28 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.6 standard deviations above that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.

On record, the biggest yearly rise was 0.6 percentage points in 2001 and the biggest yearly fall was 0.5 percentage points in 2017. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.

From 2012 to 2021 the straight-line trend is downward, about 0.18 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 70% of the movement over 10 observed years.

Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.

How it compares

In 2021, Cameroon had the 27th highest value of the 185 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.

Closest to Cameroon in the 2021 ranking

• Guyana — 24th of 185: 23.9%
• Yemen, Rep. — 25th of 185: 23.8%
• Burundi — 26th of 185: 23.5%
• Liberia — 28th of 185: 23.4%
• Guinea-Bissau — 29th of 185: 23.3%
• Lao PDR — 30th of 185: 23.1%

What this measures

Mortality from CVD, cancer, diabetes or CRD is the percent of 30-year-old-people who would die before their 70th birthday from any of cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, or chronic respiratory disease, assuming that s/he would experience current mortality rates at every age and s/he would not die from any other cause of death (e.g., injuries or HIV/AIDS).

Limitations: Due to changes in input data and methods, the revisions of the data are not comparable to previously published estimates. The current estimates for 2020 and 2021 are likely underestimated in countries where high-quality vital registration data was lacking at the time of GHE2021 production. This is because the modeled estimates cannot fully account for deaths from the four major NCDs indirectly attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, the data for 2020 and 2021 should be interpreted with caution.

Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.

All 22 values

Mortality from CVD, cancer, diabetes or CRD between exact ages 30 and 70, female (%) in nearby economies

• Angola — 22.7% (2021)
• Benin — 19% (2021)
• Botswana — 20.3% (2021)
• Burkina Faso — 21.3% (2021)
• Burundi — 23.5% (2021)
• Cabo Verde — 11.9% (2021)
• Central African Republic — 26.9% (2021)
• Chad — 23% (2021)

More health data for Cameroon

• Population ages 00-04, female (% of female population) — 14.86% (2025)
• Population ages 00-04, male (% of male population) — 15.25% (2025)
• Population ages 0-14, female — 6.09 million (2025)
• Population ages 0-14, female (% of female population) — 40.66% (2025)
• Population ages 0-14, male — 6.19 million (2025)
• Population ages 0-14, male (% of male population) — 41.58% (2025)
• Population ages 0-14, total — 12.29 million (2025)
• Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) — 41.12% (2025)
• Population ages 05-09, female (% of female population) — 13.72% (2025)

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Questions people ask

What is Cameroon's mortality from CVD, cancer, diabetes or CRD between exact ages 30 and 70, female (%)?

23.4% in 2021, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 2000?

It is down 0.5 percentage points from 23.9% in 2000. The highest value was 24.8% in 2003 and the lowest 22.9% in 2019.

How does Cameroon rank?

27th highest of 185 economies with data for 2021.

Is the latest change in mortality from CVD, cancer, diabetes or CRD between exact ages 30 and 70, female (%) unusual for Cameroon?

Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator SH.DYN.NCOM.FE.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory Data Repository (http://apps.who.int/ghodata/)., World Health Organization (WHO), uri: https://www.who.int/data/gho Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.

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