Cameroon vs Zambia: Birth rate

Cameroon

33.74 births per 1,000 people

in 2023

Zambia

33.08 births per 1,000 people

in 2023

Cameroon rank

17th

Zambia rank

20th

Birth rate over time

Cameroon
Zambia

How they compare

Cameroon currently reports 33.74 births per 1,000 people against 33.08 births per 1,000 people in Zambia, a difference of 0.662 births per 1,000 people.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Zambia ahead.

Cameroon ranks 17th and Zambia ranks 20th of 236 countries.

Individual pages

Birth rate in Cameroon
Birth rate in Zambia
Full country ranking

About this data

Indicator: Birth rate
Unit: births per 1,000 people
Source: UN, World Population Prospects (2024) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 236 places, 17,464 data points, 1950–2023
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

The number of live births in a year per 1,000 people in the population.