Life Expectancy at Birth in Cameroon: 1800 to Today (and Tomorrow)

Life expectancy at birth measures how many years a newborn could expect to live, given the mortality of the time and place. Every value recorded here is a statistical fact about the lives actually lived there. Behind each decimal and year lies the quiet weight of human existence, tracking the fundamental horizon of time granted to a generation. These numbers do not tell the whole story of a culture, but they chart the shifting boundaries of survival itself across centuries.

Across three centuries, the data traces a slow, deliberate ascent. In the 1800s estimate, life expectancy stood at 27 years, ticking upward by fractions through the 1810s estimate, the 1820s estimate, the 1830s estimate, the 1840s estimate, the 1850s estimate, the 1860s estimate, the 1870s estimate, the 1880s estimate, and the 1890s estimate. By 1900 it was 28 years, before climbing steadily through the 1910s estimate, 1920s estimate, 1930s estimate, 1940s estimate, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s. In the 2020s, life expectancy at birth in Cameroon stands at 62 years, ranking #125 of 157 countries.

If you were born in Cameroon across these eras, your temporal landscape defined your days. Looking forward, projections stretch ahead toward the 2030s projection of 63.2 years, the 2040s projection of 64.4 years, the 2050s projection of 65.6 years, the 2060s projection of 66.8 years, the 2070s projection of 68 years, the 2080s projection of 69.2 years, the 2090s projection of 70.4 years, and the 2100s projection of 71.6 years. Where do YOU rank among everyone ever born?