# Cameroon - Link: https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/cameroon/ - Published: 2026-05-22T20:30:59-05:00 - Author: Preeti Sinha National Blueprint · One of 195 # Cameroon A nation of 29.9 million with forest over four tenths of its land and two thirds of its power from renewable sources, now negotiating a new programme with the IMF. Perfect Nations values what Cameroon owns and raises capital against it, through** innovative financing for development (FfD)** and **super intelligence (SI)**. Cameroon at a glance * **29.9m**PeopleWorld Bank, 2025 * _Furthest from reach · Energy_**74.9%**of the electricity a person needs is missing [Ember, 2024](https://ember-energy.org/data/yearly-electricity-data/) * **3**Instruments and investments on record[Capital already committed](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/cameroon/#bp-register) [Work with us](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/cameroon/#bp-studio)[Read the Letter to Cameroon](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/cameroon/#bp-letter) What we do for Cameroon ## Assets. Capital. Solutions. Perfect Nations is a new-age sovereign advisory firm, and its clients are nations. 1. [01AssetsThe cupFive sovereign assets, valued, from The Forest to The People.](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/cameroon/#bp-assets) 2. [02CapitalThe laurels3 instruments and investments on record, every one sourced.](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/cameroon/#bp-capital) 3. [03SolutionsThe seven starsSeven basic standards of living, star by star. Energy is furthest from reach today.](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/cameroon/#bp-pc) **The whole logo:** a Perfect Nation, where every citizen has all seven basic standards of living, led by good governance. [01](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/cameroon/#bp-do)**Assets** · The cup · Sovereign Assets ## Five assets no balance sheet counts. Each is owned today, earns today, and can carry Cameroon toward seven basic standards of living for every citizen. * **40.7%**Of the land under forest, 2024 * ### The Forest * Part of the Congo Basin, the second lung of the planet: carbon and timber that can earn as they stand. * **65.8%**Of electricity from renewable sources, 2021 * ### The Clean Grid * Rivers already give two thirds of the power; every new connection can be clean. * **9,880 m³**Renewable fresh water a person, 2022 * ### The Fresh Water * Rain and rivers renewed every year: power, irrigation and drinking water. * **21.1%**Of the land in agriculture, 2024 * ### The Farmland * Land that can feed the nation and earn abroad, valued and financed against its harvest. * **29.9m**Citizens, 2025 * ### The People * 41.1% are under fifteen: the workforce and the market of the next generation. [Every figure, with its source](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/cameroon/#bp-sources) [The Sovereign Assets ledger](https://perfectnations.com/sovereign-assets/) [02](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/cameroon/#bp-do)**Capital** · The laurels· Capital Architecture ## Forest, rivers and a debt to refinance. Bonds, guarantees, swaps and loans that raise capital against what Cameroon owns, every line sourced. [Capital Architecture](https://perfectnations.com/capital-architecture/) The record in figures * **XAF 15.6tn**Public debt stock at end June 2026, about $27 billion, monthly report of the Autonomous Amortization Fund[Financial Afrik, 2026](https://www.financialafrik.com/en/?p=493963) * **44.3%**Public-sector debt, share of GDP, 31 March 2026, Ministry of Finance [Capmad, 2026](https://www.capmad.com/post/imf-yaounde-opens-talks-on-a-new-20262029-program-after-the-end-of-the-fececf-arrangement) * **$689.5M**IMF Extended Credit Facility and Extended Fund Facility, approved July 2021[IMF, 2025](https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2025/03/12/pr-2559-cameroon-imf-concludes-7th-rev-of-ecf-eff-2nd-review-of-rsf) * **XAF 626bn**The PAD power plant public-private partnership, about $1.08 billion [Financial Afrik, 2026](https://www.financialafrik.com/en/?p=493963) Capital already committed * MultilateralCompletedExtended Credit Facility and Extended Fund Facility$689.5M * IMF · Approved July 2021 * Three-year arrangements; the eighth reviews were completed in July 2025. * IMF * [Source](https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2025/03/12/pr-2559-cameroon-imf-concludes-7th-rev-of-ecf-eff-2nd-review-of-rsf) * MultilateralActiveResilience and Sustainability Facility$71M * IMF · Third review completed 24 July 2025 * The third review made about $71 million available for Cameroon’s climate agenda. * IMF * [Source](https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2025/07/24/pr-25265-cameroon-imf-concludes-8th-rev-under-ecf-and-eff-and-3rd-rev-under-rsf) * PrivateActiveKribi refineryXAF 540bn * Public-private partnership * A refinery partnership of about $882 million, carried in the public debt report. * Government of Cameroon * [Source](https://www.financialafrik.com/en/?p=493963) ### The Cameroon Newswire [The Solutions Wire](https://perfectnations.com/state-of-nations/#sn-wire) ![Esther Mbarga, Nation Steward of Cameroon](https://perfectnations.com/wp-content/ uploads/2026/11/Esther-Mbarga-Nation-Steward-of-Cameroon-150x150.png) **Esther Mbarga**Nation Steward of Cameroon · SI ResearcherLast updated 12 November 2026 * 1 Oct 2026[**IMF Staff Concludes Post-Financing Assessment Discussions with Cameroon**](https://www.imf.org/en/news/articles/2026/10/01/pr26314-imf-staff-concludes-assesment-cameroon) IMF * 2 Aug 2026[**By June 30, 2026, Cameroon experiences a growth of 3.7% with the IMF in sight for 2027**](https://www.financialafrik.com/en/2026/08/02/by-june-30-2026-cameroon-experiences-a-growth-of-3-7-with-the-imf-in-sight-for-2027/) Financial Afrik ## Already working in Cameroon. Independent firms and social enterprises already at work in Cameroon, highlighted by Perfect Nations. None is a partner of Perfect Nations. [Suggest an enterprise](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/cameroon/contact@perfectnations.com?subject=An%20enterprise%20already%20at%20work%20in%20Cameroon) * ### The first firms and social enterprises at work in Cameroon are being gathered. * Name one already at work there: it may be highlighted here, with its source. [03](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/cameroon/#bp-do)**Solutions** · The seven stars · Perfect Capita ## Perfect Cameroon, _star by star._ **Perfect Capita** is the yearly cost, per person, of lifting everyone above the Living Line in all seven basic living standards, set with Cameroon in its own prices. [How Perfect Capita works](https://perfectnations.com/perfect-capita/) **25.1** Energy · furthest from reachAbout 251 kWh of electricity a person a year, against the Living Line of 1,000; 32% cook with clean fuels (2024)[Ember, 2024](https://ember-energy.org/data/yearly-electricity-data/) Tap a star for its figure and source. The price of Perfect Cameroon To be set with Cameroon, from its own figures and in its own prices: Perfect Capita times the people of Cameroon, each year. Read more * Food**39.1%**Not food insecure; 60.9% are moderately or severely food insecure [FAO, 2024](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SN.ITK.MSFI.ZS?locations=CM) * Water**71.4%**Basic drinking water; safely managed water is not measured (lenient) [WHO/UNICEF, 2024](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.H2O.BASW.ZS?locations=CM) * Shelter**67.3%**City dwellers outside slums; 32.7% live in slums; safely managed sanitation is not measured[UN-Habitat, 2022](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.POP.SLUM.UR.ZS?locations=CM) * Energy**25.1**About 251 kWh of electricity a person a year, against the Living Line of 1,000; 32% cook with clean fuels (2024)[Ember, 2024](https://ember-energy.org/data/yearly-electricity-data/) * Education**28.1**28.1% of children read a simple text by the end of primary school; 2019, dated[World Bank, 2019](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.LPV.PRIM?locations=CM) * Health**48**WHO service coverage index[WHO, 2023](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/universal-health-coverage-index?country=~CMR) * Livelihood**58.7%**Above US$4.20 a day; 41.3% live below it[World Bank, 2021](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.LMIC?locations=CM) Perfect Nations estimate, to be confirmed with Cameroon. Figures marked dated rest on surveys more than five years old; lenient measures are marked as such. [The strict measures](https://perfectnations.com/perfect-capita/#pq-measures) Strict measures. Food: share not moderately or severely food insecure (FAO). Water: safely managed drinking water where measured; where it is not, basic water, marked as such. Shelter: the lower of safely managed sanitation and the share outside urban slums. Energy: the lower of electricity per person against 1,000 kWh and clean cooking; where electricity per person is not published, clean cooking. Education: the lower of children reading by the end of primary school and lower-secondary completion. Health: WHO service coverage index. Livelihood: share above the stricter of the national poverty line and the World Bank line for the nation’s income group. Each figure links to its source. ### Solutions for Perfect Cameroon [All Solutions](https://perfectnations.com/state-of-nations/#sn-solutions) * **Solution No. 45**12 Nov 2026 * ### 󠀁[River Power for Every Home](https://perfectnations.com/state-of-nations/#solution-45)󠁿 * Rivers already give Cameroon most of its power; guaranteed finance carries that clean power to every home. - **01****The challenge**Cameroonians use about 251 kWh of electricity a person a year, against the Living Line of 1,000: 74.9% of the electricity a person needs is missing. - **02****What Perfect Nations advises**Cameroon should finance the lines, substations and village connections that carry its river power to every home, backed by a development bank guarantee so that private lenders can lend for longer and at lower cost. With super intelligence, river flows, demand and losses on every line can be read as they happen, so each new connection is placed where it lights the most homes for the least money. * **74.9%**of the electricity a Cameroonian needs is missing * From**Preeti Sinha**President and CEO, Perfect Nations[Read the Solution](https://perfectnations.com/state-of-nations/#solution-45) [Discuss this Solution](https://perfectnations.com/contact/?about=solution-45&country=Cameroon) Perfect Nations® · Letters to the NationsCameroon ## Dear Cameroon, You hold part of the Congo Basin forest, rivers that already light two thirds of your grid, and a young nation of nearly thirty million. Read more Your debt is sustainable but costly. Let the forest and the rivers carry cheaper capital than the market now offers you. “Your forest stores the world’s carbon. Let the world pay for it in cheaper capital.” Yours in design,**Preeti Sinha**President and CEO, Perfect Nations Work with us · The ReDesign Studio ## The Perfect Cameroon _ReDesign Studio_ One mission, three depths: the same four moves for Cameroon, taken as far toward market as you choose. Read more For the Government of Cameroon, its development partners and investors. Scope and fees are agreed in writing before any work begins. 1. **01**Identify the assets 2. **02**Estimate Perfect Capita 3. **03**Co-design the capital architecture 4. **04**Launch the instruments 1. Mandate 013 hours 2. ### The Nation Briefing 3. A private session for the people who decide. 4. You leave withThe gap, named and sized 5. Read more 6. a. **01**The five sovereign assets on this page, walked through. b. **02**Education, the standard furthest from reach, and the Gap, explained. c. **03**The instruments that could close the Gap, shortlisted. d. **04**The path to market, outlined. 7. [Request a Nation Briefing](https://perfectnations.com/contact/?about=briefing&country=Cameroon) 8. Mandate 023 days 9. ### The Blueprint Lab 10. Your team and ours, working the blueprint together. 11. You leave withThe structure, drawn 12. Read more 13. a. **01**The ledger tested against your ministries’ own data. b. **02**Each of the seven standards costed in local prices. c. **03**One financing structure, drawn with your team. d. **04**A term sheet and the partners to approach. 14. [Plan a Blueprint Lab](https://perfectnations.com/contact/?about=lab&country=Cameroon) 15. Mandate 03End to end 16. ### The Sovereign Mandate 17. Led personally by the President and CEO. 18. You leave withA structure ready for market 19. Read more 20. a. **01**A full sovereign asset ledger, valued and verified. b. **02**Perfect Capita set and agreed with government, with a monitoring plan. c. **03**The full structure: legal form, credit enhancement, guarantees and pricing. d. **04**Taken to investors and development partners, through to close. 21. [Discuss a Sovereign Mandate](https://perfectnations.com/contact/?about=commission&country=Cameroon) ### Co-design it with us Where Cameroonians and Co-designers design the nation they want to live in. * Writings * #### Write Perfect Cameroon into being. * Up to 1,500 words on your vision of Perfect Cameroon, published with your name. * [Submit your writing](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/cameroon/contact@perfectnations.com?subject=Writing%20for%20Perfect%20Cameroon&body=Your%20name%2C%20or%20a%20pen%20name%3A%0D%0AWhere%20you%20live%3A%0D%0ATitle%3A%0D%0A%0D%0AYour%20vision%20of%20Perfect%20Cameroon%2C%20and%20the%20economic%20solutions%20to%20achieve%20it%20%28up%20to%201%2C500%20words%29%3A%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0AI%20confirm%20that%20this%20is%20my%20own%20original%20writing%2C%20and%20I%20give%20Perfect%20Nations%20permission%20to%20publish%20it%20with%20credit%20to%20me.%0D%0A) * Voices of Perfect Nations Launching soon * #### The local leaders already building Perfect Cameroon. * Great local leaders: honest, dedicated and committed to basic standards of living for all. Every guest answers one question: “What does Cameroon already own, and how could it pay for a decent life for every citizen?” * [Nominate yourself](https://perfectnations.com/contact/?nation=cameroon&topic=nominate-self) [Suggest a guest](https://perfectnations.com/contact/?nation=cameroon&topic=guest) * Co-designers * #### Join the community. * Everyone who shares a vision, a voice or an enterprise here becomes a **Co-designer of Perfect Cameroon**. * [Become a Co-designer](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/cameroon/contact@perfectnations.com?subject=Becoming%20a%20Co-designer%20of%20Perfect%20Cameroon&body=Your%20name%3A%0D%0AWhere%20you%20live%3A%0D%0AHow%20you%20would%20like%20to%20contribute%20%28writing%2C%20a%20voice%20for%20the%20podcast%2C%20an%20enterprise%2C%20your%20expertise%29%3A%0D%0A) The Cameroon ReDesign Studio is open ## Design Perfect Cameroon with us. Share your vision, suggest a guest, or write to us: every message receives a personal reply. [Enter the ReDesign Studio](https://perfectnations.com/design-studio/)[Write to us](https://perfectnations.com/contact/?nation=cameroon) [All 195 nations](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/) Sources 1. World Bank, World Development Indicators (API, last updated 8 October 2026), accessed 10 November 2026: population 2025, ages 0 to 14 2025, land area and agricultural and forest land 2024, renewable fresh water per person 2022, natural resource rents 2021, renewable electricity output 2021, electricity access and clean cooking 2024. 2. The seven standards: FAO food insecurity, WHO/UNICEF JMP water and sanitation, UN-Habitat urban slums, World Bank clean cooking, learning poverty and lower-secondary completion, and poverty headcounts (all via the World Bank); WHO UHC service coverage index, 2023. 3. IMF, PR 25/59 (March 2025), PR 25/265 (24 July 2025) and PR 26/314 (1 October 2026). 4. Financial Afrik, CAA monthly public debt report to end June 2026; Capmad, Ministry of Finance figure to 31 March 2026. 5. Electricity used per person: Ember, Yearly Electricity Data (2026 release), accessed 12 November 2026.