Ivory Coast

Facts

Population:  16,393,221 note:  estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2001 est.)
Age structure:  0-14 years:  46.21% (male 3,802,397; female 3,773,455) 15-64 years:  51.57% (male 4,343,518; female 4,110,805) 65 years and over:  2.22% (male 180,463; female 182,583) (2001 est.)
Population growth rate:  2.51% (2001 est.)
Birth rate:  40.38 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Death rate:  16.65 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Net migration rate:  1.4 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 est.) note:  after Liberia's civil war started in 1990, more than 350,000 refugees fled to Cote d'Ivoire; by the end of 1999 most Liberian refugees were assumed to have returned
Sex ratio:  at birth:  1.03 male(s)/female under 15 years:  1.01 male(s)/female 15-64 years:  1.06 male(s)/female 65 years and over:  0.99 male(s)/female total population:  1.03 male(s)/female (2001 est.)
Infant mortality rate:  93.65 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:  total population:  44.93 years male:  43.58 years female:  46.33 years (2001 est.)
Total fertility rate:  5.7 children born/woman (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:  10.76% (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:  760,000 (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths:  72,000 (1999 est.)
Nationality:  noun:  Ivorian(s) adjective:  Ivorian
Ethnic groups:  Akan 42.1%, Voltaiques or Gur 17.6%, Northern Mandes 16.5%, Krous 11%, Southern Mandes 10%, other 2.8% (1998)
Religions:  Christian 34%, Muslim 27%, no religion 21%, animist 15%, other 3% (1998) note:  the majority of foreigners (migratory workers) are Muslim (70%) and Christian (20%)
Languages:  French (official), 60 native dialects with Dioula the most widely spoken
Literacy:  definition:  age 15 and over can read and write total population:  48.5% male:  57% female:  40%
GDP:  purchasing power parity - $26.2 billion (2000 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:  -0.3% (2000 est.)
GDP - per capita:  purchasing power parity - $1,600 (2000 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:  agriculture:  32% industry:  18% services:  50% (1998)
Population below poverty line:  NA%
Household income or consumption by percentage share:  lowest 10%:  3.1% highest 10%:  28.8% (1995)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):  2.5% (2000 est.)
Labor force:  68% agricultural (2000 est.)
Unemployment rate:  13% in urban areas (1998 est.)
Budget:  revenues:  $1.5 billion expenditures:  $2.1 billion, including capital expenditures of $420 million (2000 est.)
Industries:  foodstuffs, beverages; wood products, oil refining, truck and bus assembly, textiles, fertilizer, building materials, electricity
Industrial production growth rate:  15% (1998 est.)
Electricity - production:  4.06 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - production by source:  fossil fuel:  75.37% hydro:  24.63% nuclear:  0% other:  0% (1999)
Electricity - consumption:  3.183 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - exports:  593 million kWh (1999)
Electricity - imports:  0 kWh (1999)
Agriculture - products:  coffee, cocoa beans, bananas, palm kernels, corn, rice, manioc (tapioca), sweet potatoes, sugar, cotton, rubber; timber
Exports:  $3.8 billion (f.o.b., 2000 est.)
Exports - commodities:  cocoa 33%, coffee, tropical woods, petroleum, cotton, bananas, pineapples, palm oil, cotton, fish (1999)
Exports - partners:  France 15%, US 8%, Netherlands 7%, Germany 6%, Italy 6% (1999)
Imports:  $2.5 billion (f.o.b., 2000 est.)
Imports - commodities:  food, consumer goods; capital goods, fuel, transport equipment
Imports - partners:  France 26%, Nigeria 10%, China 7%, Italy 5%, Germany 4% (1999)
Debt - external:  $13.9 billion (2000 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:  ODA, $1 billion (1996 est.)
Currency:  Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (XOF); note - responsible authority is the Central Bank of the West African States
Currency code:  XOF
Exchange rates:  Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (XOF) per US dollar - 699.21 (January 2001), 711.98 (2000), 615.70 (1999), 589.95 (1998), 583.67 (1997), 511.55 (1996); note - from 1 January 1999, the XOF is pegged to the euro at a rate of 655.957 XOF per euro
Fiscal year:  calendar year

Statistics: CIA World Factbook.

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