Side by side
Cameroon and Nigeria compared
Two sourced records set beside each other — the figures each nation publishes, and the events each chronicle records of the other. Compared, never graded.
1 January 1960 — French Cameroun becomes independent as the UN trusteeship ends
1 October 1960 — The Federation of Nigeria becomes independent of Britain
- Shared indicators
- 39
- Domains
- 9
- Crossed events
- 3
- Data through
- 2026-08-10
The figures, side by side
Each figure is the same observation, with the same source, as on the two dossiers. Every value shows the year it was observed — vintages differ by indicator and nation. A “—” is an absence in the source data, never a zero. Metric names link to the world ranking; values open the figure on its own dossier.
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Entangled histories
3 events in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.
- c. 1000 BCE
The Bantu expansion begins
The Grassfields of the Cameroon-Nigeria borderlands are widely held to lie near the homeland of the Bantu languages, whose speakers spread from this region across central and southern Africa.
Peoples & Migration · from the Cameroon chronicle · The Sao, the Bantu cradle and Cameroon's early peoples · History of Cameroon, Cameroon (country overview and history)
- 1919–1922
Partition into French and British mandates
The League of Nations divided the former German colony between France, which took the larger French Cameroun, and Britain, which administered the Northern and Southern Cameroons alongside Nigeria.
Colonisation · from the Cameroon chronicle · Partition: French Cameroun and British Cameroons · Cameroon (country overview and history), A Guide to the History of Recognition: Cameroon, History of Cameroon
- 11 February 1961
The British Cameroons plebiscite
In a UN-supervised vote the Northern Cameroons chose to join Nigeria while the Southern Cameroons chose to reunite with the Republic of Cameroon.
Independence · from the Cameroon chronicle · Independence, reunification and the Ahidjo years · 1961 British Cameroons referendum, Cameroon (country overview and history)