Cameroon

Cameroon is a lower-middle-income country, ranking 155th out of 193 countries in the 2025 Human Development Index.

Food insecurity is reaching alarming levels, with 3.3 million people needing humanitarian assistance in 2025, including more than 2 million internally displaced people, refugees and returnees.

Over 23 percent of Cameroonians live below the international poverty line (US$2.15 per person per day), and extreme poverty could reach 25 percent by 2026 – affecting 8 million people. 

High poverty levels are linked to climate shocks, non-state armed groups, weak economic growth against faster population increases, and the rising cost of living. In 2024, around 450,000 people were affected by floods in the Far North Region, with more than 85,000 hectares of farmland destroyed, impacting food security. 

Cameroon is grappling with one of the world’s most neglected displacement crises, driven by distinct and complex emergencies. In the Northwest and Southwest regions, ongoing armed conflict between non-state armed groups (NSAGs) and government forces continues to cause widespread insecurity and displacement. 

The World Food Programme (WFP) focuses on crisis response, nutrition, resilience building and mitigating the root causes of food insecurity. Our support helps to stabilize communities, improve childhood and educational outcomes, and prevent hunger.

However, these gains risk being lost. Without urgent funding, WFP may be forced to cut food assistance from 1 million to just 168,000 people and halt nutrition support for over 220,000 vulnerable children and mothers.