Diplomatic briefing
High Commission of India, Yaounde
High CommissionCameroon
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In short
India’s high commission in Cameroon records a reported community of 2,000, 1 agreements on record and a UN voting alignment with India of 62%.
Overseas Indians
Medium confidence2,000
persons · as of Jan 2026
Source· retrieved 1 day ago
Population of Overseas Indians
Source: Ministry of External Affairs, India
Where: row "Cameroon"
“PIOs 0 + NRIs 2,000 = 2,000”
Published: undated · Read: 7 October 2026
MEA publishes no methodology for these estimates and told a Parliamentary committee it holds "no authentic data". The page also repeats some countries from an older vintage with the PIO/NRI columns swapped; the first occurrence is used here. This country appears 2× on the page.
Agreements on record
Medium confidence1
agreement · 1950–present
Source· retrieved 3 hours ago
Indian Treaties Database — filtered by country
Source: Ministry of External Affairs, India
Where: search-result-item count, sorted newest first (newest: 22 February 1968)
“TRADE AGREEMENT BETWEEN INDIA AND CAMEROON — 22 February 1968”
Published: 22 February 1968 · Read: 8 October 2026
MEA states it cannot vouch for the accuracy or completeness of this database. It carries no status field, so "in force" cannot be derived from it — only that an agreement is on record.
UN votes matching India’s
62%
share of UNGA votes matching India’s · UNGA session 78
Source· retrieved 12 hours ago
United Nations General Assembly Voting Data — Ideal Point Estimates
Source: Bailey, Strezhnev & Voeten — Harvard Dataverse
Where: row “Cameroon”, session 78, IndiaAgree over 81 votes
Published: undated · Read: 8 October 2026
UN General Assembly Voting Data (v39), non-commercial licence. The share is the dataset’s own IndiaAgree column — roll-call votes on which this country and India voted the same way, as the dataset defines agreement — not our calculation. Independent of MEA.
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The relationship, in figures
Agreements on record (1)
MEA Treaties DatabaseThe briefing
MEA publishes a bilateral brief — 39 sections, 11,971 characters of extractable text. Sections include: India - Cameroon Bilateral Relations · Political Relations · Bilateral Visits · From Cameroon to India · November, 2023 · (II).
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