Cameroon Balance of Payments: Capital and Financial Account
CM: BOP: Financial Account: Foreign Direct Investment: Net Inflows
CM: BOP: Financial Account: Foreign Direct Investment: Net Inflows data was reported at 925.275 USD mn in 2024. This records an increase from the previous number of 821.546 USD mn for 2023. CM: BOP: Financial Account: Foreign Direct Investment: Net Inflows data is updated yearly, averaging 149.614 USD mn from Dec 1970 (Median) to 2024, with 55 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 1.025 USD bn in 2019 and a record low of -112.831 USD mn in 1990. CM: BOP: Financial Account: Foreign Direct Investment: Net Inflows data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Cameroon – Table CM.World Bank.WDI: Balance of Payments: Capital and Financial Account. Foreign direct investment refers to direct investment equity flows in the reporting economy. It is the sum of equity capital, reinvestment of earnings, and other capital. Direct investment is a category of cross-border investment associated with a resident in one economy having control or a significant degree of influence on the management of an enterprise that is resident in another economy. Ownership of 10 percent or more of the ordinary shares of voting stock is the criterion for determining the existence of a direct investment relationship. Data are in current U.S. dollars.;Balance of Payments database, International Monetary Fund (IMF), note: International Monetary Fund, Balance of Payments database, supplemented by data from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and official national sources.; UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD); Official national sources;Sum;
| Last | Frequency | Range |
|---|---|---|
| 925.275 2024 | yearly | 1970 - 2024 |
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CM: BOP: Financial Account: Foreign Direct Investment: Net Inflows: % of GDP
CM: BOP: Financial Account: Foreign Direct Investment: Net Inflows: % of GDP data was reported at 1.736 % in 2024. This records an increase from the previous number of 1.683 % for 2023. CM: BOP: Financial Account: Foreign Direct Investment: Net Inflows: % of GDP data is updated yearly, averaging 1.387 % from Dec 1970 (Median) to 2024, with 55 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 4.069 % in 2002 and a record low of -0.916 % in 1990. CM: BOP: Financial Account: Foreign Direct Investment: Net Inflows: % of GDP data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Cameroon – Table CM.World Bank.WDI: Balance of Payments: Capital and Financial Account. Foreign direct investment are the net inflows of investment to acquire a lasting management interest (10 percent or more of voting stock) in an enterprise operating in an economy other than that of the investor. It is the sum of equity capital, reinvestment of earnings, other long-term capital, and short-term capital as shown in the balance of payments. This series shows net inflows (new investment inflows less disinvestment) in the reporting economy from foreign investors, and is divided by GDP.;International Financial Statistics and Balance of Payments databases, International Monetary Fund (IMF); International Debt Statistics, World Bank (WB); World Bank GDP estimates, World Bank (WB); OECD GDP estimates, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD);Weighted average;
| Last | Frequency | Range |
|---|---|---|
| 1.736 2024 | yearly | 1970 - 2024 |
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CM: BOP: Financial Account: Foreign Direct Investment: Net Outflows
CM: BOP: Financial Account: Foreign Direct Investment: Net Outflows data was reported at -79.506 USD mn in 2023. This records a decrease from the previous number of 27.346 USD mn for 2022. CM: BOP: Financial Account: Foreign Direct Investment: Net Outflows data is updated yearly, averaging 8.000 USD mn from Dec 1973 (Median) to 2023, with 51 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 500.980 USD mn in 2010 and a record low of -282.312 USD mn in 2012. CM: BOP: Financial Account: Foreign Direct Investment: Net Outflows data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Cameroon – Table CM.World Bank.WDI: Balance of Payments: Capital and Financial Account. Foreign direct investment refers to direct investment equity flows in an economy. It is the sum of equity capital, reinvestment of earnings, and other capital. Direct investment is a category of cross-border investment associated with a resident in one economy having control or a significant degree of influence on the management of an enterprise that is resident in another economy. Ownership of 10 percent or more of the ordinary shares of voting stock is the criterion for determining the existence of a direct investment relationship. This series shows net outflows of investment from the reporting economy to the rest of the world. Data are in current U.S. dollars.;International Monetary Fund, Balance of Payments database, supplemented by data from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and official national sources.;Sum;Note: Data starting from 2005 are based on the sixth edition of the IMF's Balance of Payments Manual (BPM6).
| Last | Frequency | Range |
|---|---|---|
| 27.346 2022 | yearly | 1973 - 2022 |
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CM: BOP: Financial Account: Foreign Direct Investment: Net Outflows: % of GDP
CM: BOP: Financial Account: Foreign Direct Investment: Net Outflows: % of GDP data was reported at 0.010 % in 2024. This records an increase from the previous number of -0.163 % for 2023. CM: BOP: Financial Account: Foreign Direct Investment: Net Outflows: % of GDP data is updated yearly, averaging -1.202 % from Dec 1973 (Median) to 2024, with 52 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 1.821 % in 2010 and a record low of -1.202 % in 1998. CM: BOP: Financial Account: Foreign Direct Investment: Net Outflows: % of GDP data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Cameroon – Table CM.World Bank.WDI: Balance of Payments: Capital and Financial Account. Foreign direct investment refers to direct investment equity flows in an economy. It is the sum of equity capital, reinvestment of earnings, and other capital. Direct investment is a category of cross-border investment associated with a resident in one economy having control or a significant degree of influence on the management of an enterprise that is resident in another economy. Ownership of 10 percent or more of the ordinary shares of voting stock is the criterion for determining the existence of a direct investment relationship. This series shows net outflows of investment from the reporting economy to the rest of the world, and is divided by GDP.;Balance of Payments database, International Monetary Fund (IMF), note: International Monetary Fund, Balance of Payments database, supplemented by data from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and official national sources.; UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD); Official national sources;Weighted average;
| Last | Frequency | Range |
|---|---|---|
| 0.010 2024 | yearly | 1973 - 2024 |
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Cameroon CM: BOP: Financial Account: Foreign Direct Investment: Primary Income
CM: BOP: Financial Account: Foreign Direct Investment: Primary Income data was reported at 494.113 USD mn in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 421.468 USD mn for 2016. CM: BOP: Financial Account: Foreign Direct Investment: Primary Income data is updated yearly, averaging 109.691 USD mn from Dec 1970 (Median) to 2017, with 48 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 659.972 USD mn in 2014 and a record low of 0.000 USD mn in 1976. CM: BOP: Financial Account: Foreign Direct Investment: Primary Income data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Cameroon – Table CM.World Bank.WDI: Balance of Payments: Capital and Financial Account. Primary income on foreign direct investment covers payments of direct investment income (debit side), which consist of income on equity (dividends, branch profits, and reinvested earnings) and income on the intercompany debt (interest). Data are in current U.S. dollars.; ; International Monetary Fund, Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook.; Sum;
| Last | Frequency | Range |
|---|---|---|
| 494.113 2017 | yearly | 1970 - 2017 |
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CM: BOP: Financial Account: Portfolio Equity: Net Inflows
CM: BOP: Financial Account: Portfolio Equity: Net Inflows data was reported at 0.000 USD mn in 2023. This stayed constant from the previous number of 0.000 USD mn for 2022. CM: BOP: Financial Account: Portfolio Equity: Net Inflows data is updated yearly, averaging 0.000 USD mn from Dec 1977 (Median) to 2023, with 47 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 2.176 USD mn in 2001 and a record low of -20.949 USD mn in 2015. CM: BOP: Financial Account: Portfolio Equity: Net Inflows data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Cameroon – Table CM.World Bank.WDI: Balance of Payments: Capital and Financial Account. Portfolio equity includes net inflows from equity securities other than those recorded as direct investment and including shares, stocks, depository receipts (American or global), and direct purchases of shares in local stock markets by foreign investors. Data are in current U.S. dollars.;International Monetary Fund, Balance of Payments database, and World Bank, International Debt Statistics.;Sum;Note: Data starting from 2005 are based on the sixth edition of the IMF's Balance of Payments Manual (BPM6).
| Last | Frequency | Range |
|---|---|---|
| 0.000 2022 | yearly | 1977 - 2022 |
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CM: BOP: Grants: Excluding Technical Cooperation
CM: BOP: Grants: Excluding Technical Cooperation data was reported at 623.324 USD mn in 2023. This records a decrease from the previous number of 733.572 USD mn for 2022. CM: BOP: Grants: Excluding Technical Cooperation data is updated yearly, averaging 259.210 USD mn from Dec 1960 (Median) to 2023, with 64 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 3.118 USD bn in 2006 and a record low of 0.020 USD mn in 1960. CM: BOP: Grants: Excluding Technical Cooperation data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Cameroon – Table CM.World Bank.WDI: Balance of Payments: Capital and Financial Account. Grants are transfers made in cash, goods or services for which no repayment is required. For ODA reporting purposes, they also include forgiveness of non-military debt, support to non-governmental organisations, certain interest subsidies, and certain costs incurred in the implementation of aid. Grants to multilateral agencies intended to soften the terms of the latter’s lending are a direct resource outflow and should also be recorded as ODA grants. For OOF reporting purposes, grants for commercial purposes such as subsidies to national private investors, and grants to forgive military debt, are also included. Grant-like flows are assimilated to grants. They comprise a) loans for which the service payments are to be made into an account in the borrowing country and used in the borrowing country for its own benefit, and b) provision of commodities for sale in the recipient’s currency the proceeds of which are used in the recipient country for its own benefit. Data are in current U.S. dollars.;DAC2A: Aid (ODA) disbursements to countries and regions, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), uri: DSD_DAC2@DF_DAC2A, note: Development Assistance Committee of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Geographical Distribution of Financial Flows, Development Co-operation Report, and OECD Data Explorer database. Data are available online at: https://data-explorer.oecd.org/., publisher: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD);Sum;
| Last | Frequency | Range |
|---|---|---|
| 623.324 2023 | yearly | 1960 - 2023 |
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CM: BOP: Grants: Technical Cooperation
CM: BOP: Grants: Technical Cooperation data was reported at 157.377 USD mn in 2023. This records an increase from the previous number of 151.231 USD mn for 2022. CM: BOP: Grants: Technical Cooperation data is updated yearly, averaging 120.560 USD mn from Dec 1960 (Median) to 2023, with 64 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 198.197 USD mn in 2007 and a record low of 0.080 USD mn in 1960. CM: BOP: Grants: Technical Cooperation data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Cameroon – Table CM.World Bank.WDI: Balance of Payments: Capital and Financial Account. Technical cooperation grants include free-standing technical cooperation grants, which are intended to finance the transfer of technical and managerial skills or of technology for the purpose of building up general national capacity without reference to any specific investment projects; and investment-related technical cooperation grants, which are provided to strengthen the capacity to execute specific investment projects. Data are in current U.S. dollars.;DAC2A: Aid (ODA) disbursements to countries and regions, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), uri: DSD_DAC2@DF_DAC2A, note: Development Assistance Committee of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Geographical Distribution of Financial Flows, Development Co-operation Report, and OECD Data Explorer database. Data are available online at: https://data-explorer.oecd.org/.;Sum;
| Last | Frequency | Range |
|---|---|---|
| 157.377 2023 | yearly | 1960 - 2023 |
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CM: BOP: Net Errors and Omissions
CM: BOP: Net Errors and Omissions data was reported at -35.652 USD mn in 2023. This records a decrease from the previous number of 25.730 USD mn for 2022. CM: BOP: Net Errors and Omissions data is updated yearly, averaging 84.890 USD mn from Dec 1977 (Median) to 2023, with 47 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 212.961 USD mn in 1988 and a record low of -584.642 USD mn in 1992. CM: BOP: Net Errors and Omissions data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Cameroon – Table CM.World Bank.WDI: Balance of Payments: Capital and Financial Account. Net errors and omissions constitute a residual category needed to ensure that accounts in the balance of payments statement sum to zero. Net errors and omissions are derived as the balance on the financial account minus the balances on the current and capital accounts. This indicator is expressed in current prices, meaning no adjustment has been made to account for price changes over time. This indicator is expressed in United States dollars.;Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF);;
| Last | Frequency | Range |
|---|---|---|
| -35.652 2023 | yearly | 1977 - 2023 |
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CM: BOP: Reserves and Related Items
CM: BOP: Reserves and Related Items data was reported at -594.808 USD mn in 2023. This records a decrease from the previous number of 855.198 USD mn for 2022. CM: BOP: Reserves and Related Items data is updated yearly, averaging -265.737 USD mn from Dec 1977 (Median) to 2023, with 47 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 1.618 USD bn in 2006 and a record low of -1.801 USD bn in 1997. CM: BOP: Reserves and Related Items data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Cameroon – Table CM.World Bank.WDI: Balance of Payments: Capital and Financial Account. Reserves and related items is the net change in a country's holdings of international reserves resulting from transactions on the current, capital, and financial accounts. Reserve assets are external assets, including monetary gold, that are readily available to and controlled by monetary authorities for meeting balance of payments financing needs, for intervention in exchange markets to affect the currency exchange rate, and for other related purposes (such as maintaining confidence in the currency and the economy, and serving as a basis for foreign borrowing). Reserve assets must be denominated and settled in foreign currency.Also included are net credit and loans from the IMF (excluding reserve position) and total exceptional financing. This indicator is expressed in current prices, meaning no adjustment has been made to account for price changes over time. This indicator is expressed in United States dollars.;Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF);;
| Last | Frequency | Range |
|---|---|---|
| -594.808 2023 | yearly | 1977 - 2023 |