Cameroon has made the improvement of the living conditions of the population, in particular the fight against poverty, one of the key axes of its Emergence Agenda for 2035 currently set out in the National Development Strategy 2020-2030 (SND30). To monitor the implementation of this SND30 and measure the progress made, a statistical monitoring system has been set up, including the Cameroon Household Survey (ECAM), which is in its 5th edition. This 5th edition was carried out according to two methodological approaches to measuring poverty declined respectively in the 2021 control ECAM5 in line with the previous ECAMs, and the main 2022 reference ECAM5, aligned with the new approach recommended by the World Bank and already implemented in the WAEMU1 countries and some Central African countries, namely the Central African Republic, Chad, and Congo. The results indicate, in general, that the objective of reversing the trend of poverty has not been achieved since the incidence of poverty, which stands at 38.6% in 2021 against 37.5% in 2014, is far from the target of 30.8% set for 2030 of the NSD30.
