Cameroon Energy - 2024

Electricity access

population without electricity: 10 million (2020)

electrification - total population: 65.4% (2021)

electrification - urban areas: 94.6% (2021)

electrification - rural areas: 24.8% (2021)

Electricity

installed generating capacity: 1.754 million kW (2020 est.)

consumption: 6,508,840,000 kWh (2019 est.)

exports: 0 kWh (2019 est.)

imports: 19 million kWh (2019 est.)

transmission/distribution losses: 1.864 billion kWh (2019 est.)

Electricity generation sources

fossil fuels: 32.5% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

nuclear: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

solar: 0.2% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

wind: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

hydroelectricity: 67.3% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

tide and wave: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

geothermal: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

biomass and waste: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

Coal

production: 0 metric tons (2020 est.)

consumption: 0 metric tons (2020 est.)

exports: 0 metric tons (2020 est.)

imports: 0 metric tons (2020 est.)

proven reserves: 0 metric tons (2019 est.)

Petroleum

total petroleum production: 63,200 bbl/day (2021 est.)

refined petroleum consumption: 37,900 bbl/day (2019 est.)

crude oil and lease condensate exports: 62,200 bbl/day (2018 est.)

crude oil and lease condensate imports: 20,200 bbl/day (2018 est.)

crude oil estimated reserves: 200 million barrels (2021 est.)

Refined petroleum products - production

39,080 bbl/day (2015 est.)

Refined petroleum products - exports

8,545 bbl/day (2015 est.)

Refined petroleum products - imports

14,090 bbl/day (2015 est.)

Natural gas

production: 2,678,486,000 cubic meters (2019 est.)

consumption: 986.189 million cubic meters (2019 est.)

exports: 1,603,156,000 cubic meters (2019 est.)

imports: 0 cubic meters (2021 est.)

proven reserves: 135.071 billion cubic meters (2021 est.)

Carbon dioxide emissions

7.105 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

from coal and metallurgical coke: 0 metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

from petroleum and other liquids: 5.171 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

from consumed natural gas: 1.935 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

Energy consumption per capita

6.187 million Btu/person (2019 est.)