[Structures par age et sexe et dynamique demographique. Le cas du Cameroun]

In this paper, a simple method, which is based entirely on a knowledge of the age structure, is presented to describe the dynamics of a population and assess the development of its birth and death rates. The method is based on the relation that exist between a population's structure and its development, as mapped out by Bennett and Horiuchi. The method is applied to data from Cameroon, following a critical evaluation of the age and sex structure of the population shown in the censuses of April 1976 and March 1987, after a period during which the death rate fell dramatically, the birth rate increased, whilst fertility rates during the early 1980s appear to have been declining.