Capture fisheries production in Cameroon

Capture fisheries in Cameroon landed 236,100 tonnes in 2024.

Measure: Capture fisheries production Unit: Metric tonnes Data: 1960 to 2024 Source: World Bank
Cameroon, 2024 236,100 Metric tonnes
Change from 2023 +3.0% 2023: 229,332 tonnes
World, 2024 94,403,126 tonnes Official aggregate
Position in 2024 58th of 215 See the full ranking

Capture fisheries production in Cameroon over time

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Metric tonnes. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

Capture fisheries production (metric tonnes), 2000 to 2024
Period CameroonWorld
2024 236,100 tonnes 94,403,126 tonnes
2023 229,332 tonnes 92,981,262 tonnes
2022 225,139 tonnes 93,221,970 tonnes
2021 215,228 tonnes 93,590,253 tonnes
2020 213,379 tonnes 91,609,572 tonnes
2019 297,969 tonnes 94,910,375 tonnes
2018 281,945 tonnes 98,740,431 tonnes
2017 261,741 tonnes 95,664,397 tonnes
2016 230,360 tonnes 92,195,579 tonnes
2015 213,592 tonnes 94,357,557 tonnes
2014 207,000 tonnes 93,466,633 tonnes
2013 207,000 tonnes 93,116,007 tonnes
2012 199,000 tonnes 91,395,933 tonnes
2011 190,000 tonnes 94,143,395 tonnes
2010 181,000 tonnes 89,688,933 tonnes
2009 172,000 tonnes 91,445,934 tonnes
2008 155,300 tonnes 92,325,811 tonnes
2007 138,612 tonnes 93,503,695 tonnes
2006 137,232 tonnes 93,672,351 tonnes
2005 142,345 tonnes 95,594,652 tonnes
2004 129,000 tonnes 95,878,960 tonnes
2003 117,801 tonnes 91,084,188 tonnes
2002 130,135 tonnes 93,786,009 tonnes
2001 121,031 tonnes 93,409,856 tonnes
2000 112,109 tonnes 96,170,993 tonnes

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +3.0% from 229,332 tonnes in 2023.
  • Since 2014, when it was 207,000 tonnes, the figure has changed by +14.1%.
  • Among the 215 countries with data for 2024, Cameroon has the 58th highest value.
  • The figure for the world in 2024 was 94,403,126 tonnes.

Source and dates

Original producer
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Distributed by
World Bank, World Development Indicators
Dataset or series code
ER.FSH.CAPT.MT · dataset details · view at source
Observation period
1960 to 2024 for Cameroon
Provider update
8 October 2026
Retrieved
9 November 2026
Published here
9 November 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (per series metadata)
Attribution
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, original data: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)