Effective tax rates: Corporate tax statistics … Effective average in Cameroon
Cameroon: Effective tax rates: Corporate tax statistics … Effective average was 93.61 Percentage of taxable income in 2025. ▬ Flat
Effective tax rates - Corporate tax statistics — Effective average in Cameroon, 2017–2025
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Measured in Percentage of taxable income.
Analysis
In 2025, effective tax rates - corporate tax statistics — effective average in Cameroon stood at 93.61 Percentage of taxable income.
That represents a change of down 0.2% on the previous year and up 0.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, effective tax rates - corporate tax statistics — effective average in Cameroon peaked at 94.05 Percentage of taxable income in 2021 and was at its lowest, 93.53 Percentage of taxable income, in 2017.
Cameroon ranks 1st of 99 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.
Effective tax rates: Corporate tax statistics … Effective average in Cameroon, year by year
| Year | Percentage of taxable income | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 93.53 Percentage of taxable income | — |
| 2018 | 93.67 Percentage of taxable income | +0.1% |
| 2019 | 93.8 Percentage of taxable income | +0.1% |
| 2020 | 93.96 Percentage of taxable income | +0.2% |
| 2021 | 94.05 Percentage of taxable income | +0.1% |
| 2022 | 94.04 Percentage of taxable income | -0.0% |
| 2023 | 93.96 Percentage of taxable income | -0.1% |
| 2024 | 93.82 Percentage of taxable income | -0.2% |
| 2025 | 93.61 Percentage of taxable income | -0.2% |
Cameroon compared with similar countries
- Cameroon's 93.61 Percentage of taxable income is above the median for lower middle income countries, which is 31.88 Percentage of taxable income, 2.9× the median. (16 countries reporting)
- Cameroon's 93.61 Percentage of taxable income is above the median for Sub-Saharan Africa, which is 34.08 Percentage of taxable income, 2.7× the median. (14 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 93.67 Percentage of taxable income | 93.53 Percentage of taxable income | 93.8 Percentage of taxable income | 3 |
| 2020s | 93.91 Percentage of taxable income | 93.61 Percentage of taxable income | 94.05 Percentage of taxable income | 6 |
Countries ranked near Cameroon
- 1 Democratic Republic of the Congo 30.21 Percentage of taxable income compare
- 2 Viet Nam 15.57 Percentage of taxable income compare
- 2 Zambia 80.14 Percentage of taxable income compare
- 3 Türkiye 9.35 Percentage of taxable income compare
- 3 Botswana 61.42 Percentage of taxable income compare
- 4 Namibia 58.81 Percentage of taxable income compare
More economy & growth data for Cameroon
- Real gdp growth, annual growth rate 5.32 % change on previous year (2024)
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 04 - Annual real GDP 2.05 Percent per annum (2029)
- Africa's Development Dynamics (AfDD) Table 02 - Annual real GDP 4.53 Percent per annum (2029)
- SDRs holdings, US dollar, annual growth rate -0.6569 % change on previous year (2025)
- SDRs holdings, US dollar, per unit of GDP 0.0004 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- SDRs holdings, US dollar, per capita 0.7283 units per person (2025)
- SDRs holdings, SDR, annual growth rate -5.4 % change on previous year (2025)
- SDRs holdings, SDR, per unit of GDP 0.0003 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- SDRs holdings, SDR, per capita 0.5318 units per person (2025)
- IMF holdings of currency, US dollar, annual growth rate 17.96 % change on previous year (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is effective tax rates - corporate tax statistics — effective average in Cameroon?
- Effective tax rates - corporate tax statistics — effective average in Cameroon was 93.61 Percentage of taxable income in 2025, according to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
- What is the highest effective tax rates - corporate tax statistics — effective average recorded in Cameroon?
- The highest recorded value was 94.05 Percentage of taxable income in 2021.
- What is the lowest effective tax rates - corporate tax statistics — effective average recorded in Cameroon?
- The lowest recorded value was 93.53 Percentage of taxable income in 2017.
- How does Cameroon rank for effective tax rates - corporate tax statistics — effective average?
- Cameroon ranks 1st out of 99 countries with data for 2025.
- Is effective tax rates - corporate tax statistics — effective average rising or falling in Cameroon?
- Over the last ten years it is up 0.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Cameroon data come from?
- The figures come from Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, published as part of Effective tax rates - Corporate tax statistics — Effective average tax rate. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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This table reports synthetic tax policy indicators calculated on the basis of a prospective, hypothetical investment project. Unlike backward-looking ETRs, they do not incorporate any information about firms' actual tax payments.The OECD methodology has been described in detail in the OECD Taxation Working Paper No. 38 (Hanappi, 2018). Further methodological information is available in the explanatory annex.