"Cameroon is Africa in miniature" - The slogan of Cameroon's Ministry of Tourism and Leisure.
Cameroon, the natural home of CIMEA, is a bilingual country made up of 10 Regions: eight francophone (French-speaking) regions and two anglophone (English-speaking) regions. Situated right in the middle of the West and the East of Africa, and at the same time in the middle of the North and the South of Africa, Cameroon, in reality, exhibits a mix of cultural, geographic and demographic characteristics that justify the slogan, "Africa in Miniature", which is further corroborated by statistics on the religions of the people of Cameroon.
In April 2010, the Government of Cameroon released official figures of the 2005 population census in Cameroon, and officially projected that on 01/01/January 1 2020, the population of Cameroon will be 24, 628, 282
Religious Map:
The three regions that make up the northern part of Cameroon (Adamawa Region, North Region, and Far North Region) consist of predominantly Muslim communities. The seven other regions that make up the central, eastern, western and southern parts of the country (Centre Region, Littoral Region, West Region, North West Region, South West Region, East Region, and South Region) constitute predominantly Christians.
According to statistics drawn from Cameroon and published online by World Fact Book, an official publication of the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), religious representations in Cameroon show the following trends: Christians make up 69.2% of the population of Cameroon, Muslims 20.9%, and other religions including non-believers , less than 10% (2005 estimates).
In April 2015, the Pew Research Center in Washington DC published the results of a 6-year survey analysis project - "Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project" - which corroborates the above statistics and further provides projections for 2020 religious trends in Cameroon as follows:
2020 religious trends in Cameroon
Affiliation - percentage - number of people
Christians - 69.6% - 16,570,000
Muslims - 20.2% - 4,640,000
Folk Religions - 3.2% - 750,000
Buddhists - <1% - <10,000
Hindus - <1% - <10,000
Jews - <1% - <10,000
Other religions - 2.7% - 650,000
Unaffiliated - 5.2% - 1,260,000
