Cameroon Oil

Oil Reserves in Cameroon (2025)

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Cameroon holds 200,000,000 barrels of proven oil reserves as of 2025, ranking #56 in the world and accounting for about 0.011% of the world's total oil reserves of 1,765,151,568,000.

Cameroon has proven reserves equivalent to 14 times its annual consumption levels (based on 2024 data). This means that, without net exports, there would be about 14 years of oil left (at 2024 consumption levels and excluding unproven reserves).

History of Oil Reserves in Cameroon

Oil Consumption in Cameroon (2024)

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• Cameroon consumes 39,089 barrels per day (B/d) of oil as of the year 2024.
• Cameroon ranks #117 in the world for oil consumption, accounting for about 0.038% of the world's total consumption of 102,559,503 barrels per day.
• Cameroon consumes 0.06 gallons of oil per capita every day (based on the 2024 population of 29,123,744 people), or 21 gallons per capita per year (0 barrels). [1 barrel = 42 US Gallons]

Oil Production in Cameroon (2024)

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• Cameroon produces 61,848 barrels per day of oil (as of 2024) ranking #57 in the world.
• At 2024 production levels, Cameroon produces every year about 11.29% of its proven reserves ( 2025).

Oil Exports (2018)

• In 2018, Cameroon exported 61% of its oil production (41,960 barrels per day out of 69,226 produced).

History of Oil Consumption and Production