| Metric | Value | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Tracked flow records | 656 | Raw count of trade-flow records in the database naming Cameroon as an origin or destination — a record count, never a summed dollar total. |
| Port coverage | 2of 9 | Ports catalogued for Cameroon with verified cargo statistics tracked on PortIndex. |
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How concentrated Cameroon's trade is across its top partner countries, computed from currently-tracked trade flows (not the historical 1997–2015 World Bank dataset). Measures country-to-country concentration only — Cameroon's trade_flows records don't carry product-level detail to break this down further.
+ 191 more tracked partners not shown above.
| Metric | Latest value | Year | Trend (2018–2022) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Goods exports | FCFA 4322.0B | 2022 | |
| Goods imports | FCFA 4519.3B | 2022 | |
| Goods trade balance | -FCFA 197.3B | 2022 |
Every one of Cameroon's 127 real trading partners reported for 2023 under UN Comtrade (CM) — a complete, deduplicated partner breakdown for this exact country/source/period combination, not a global top-N slice.
Firm-level entry/exit/survival dynamics for Cameroon's exporting firms, whole economy (not broken down by product) so every figure below is a genuine national rate — never an average across incompatible product categories. See /exporter-dynamics to compare Cameroon against all 68 covered countries.
| Metric | Latest value | Year | Trend (1997–2013) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Number of exporting firms | 857 | 2013 | |
| Incumbent exporting firms | 521 | 2013 | |
| New entrant exporting firms | 336 | 2013 | |
| Exiting exporting firms | 463 | 2013 | |
| Firm entry rate | 39.2% | 2013 | |
| Firm exit rate | 47.1% | 2013 | |
| Exporter concentration (EDD HHI, 0–1 scale) | 0.028 | 2013 | |
| Product categories exported (distinct HS4 codes) | 725 | 2013 | |
| Avg. export value per exporting firm | $2.3M | 2013 | |
| Median export value per exporting firm | $32.7K | 2013 | |
| Avg. destination countries per exporting firm | 2.8 | 2014 | |
| Median destination countries per exporting firm | 1.0 | 2014 |
The 2013 mean is 69x the median — a small number of large exporting firms account for most of the export value; the typical firm exports far less than the average figure suggests.
Top product categories among Cameroon's exporting firms by number of exporters, 2013 — each row is a real, separately-reported HS2 product category, never combined with another.
| Product category (HS2) | Exporting firms |
|---|---|
| Machinery and mechanical appliances HS 84 | 166 |
| Wood and articles of wood HS 44 | 129 |
| Articles of iron or steel HS 73 | 114 |
| Vehicles other than railway HS 87 | 110 |
| Electrical machinery and equipment HS 85 | 97 |
| Plastics and articles thereof HS 39 | 80 |
| Inorganic chemicals HS 28 | 77 |
| Edible vegetables HS 07 | 63 |
Top manufacturing industries among Cameroon's exporting firms by number of exporters, 2013 — each row is a real, separately-reported ISIC industry, never combined with another.
| Manufacturing industry (ISIC) | Exporting firms |
|---|---|
| Other chemical products ISIC 242 | 121 |
| Other fabricated metal products; metalworking ISIC 289 | 114 |
| General purpose machinery ISIC 291 | 102 |
| Other food products ISIC 154 | 91 |
| Special purpose machinery ISIC 292 | 87 |
| Meat, fish, fruit, vegetables, oils and fats ISIC 151 | 86 |
| Sawmilling and planing of wood ISIC 201 | 85 |
| Plastics products ISIC 252 | 85 |