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RETURN TO GLORY?
Côte d’Ivoire has the opportunity to regain its status as a leading African economy. Blessed with a wealth of natural resources, a pleasant climate, a strategical location and a level of infrastructure unrivaled in West Africa, Côte d’Ivoire was long recognized as one of the continent postcolonial stars.
Intl$ 107.0 billion (2018, estimate)
2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 |
1.8% | 2.5% | 3.3% | 2% | -4.9% | 10.9% | 9.3% |
2014 | 2015 | 2016* | 2017* | 2018* | ||
8.8% | 8.8% | 8% | 7.7% | 7.4% |
*Estimate
(2018 estimate)
2015 | 2016 | 2017* | 2018* | 2019* |
1.2% | 0.7% | 0.7% | 0.4% | 1% |
*Estimate
2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
*Estimate
2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018* | 2019* |
47.3% | 48.4% | 49.8% | 53.2% | 52.7% |
*Estimate
2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018* | 2019* |
-2.8% | -4% | -4.5% | -4% | -3% |
*Estimate
Standard & Poor's: N/A
Moody's: Ba3
Standard & Poor's / Moody's
2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
N/A | N/A | N/A |
-4.7 % (2018 estimate)
29.8% (2018)
0.06% (2018)
0.02% (2018)
Cocoa, coffee, timber, petroleum, cotton, bananas, pineapples, palm oil, fish
Fuel, capital equipment, foodstuffs
Netherlands 11.8%, US 7.9%, France 6.4%, Belgium 6.4%, Germany 5.8%, Burkina Faso 4.5%, India 4.4%, Mali 4.2% (2017)
Nigeria 15%, France 13.4%, China 11.3%, US 4.3% (2017)
2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
USD 577 million | USD 973 million | USD 913 million |
2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
USD 29 million | USD 674million | USD 318 million |
2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
N/A | N/A | USD -21 million | N/A |
N/A
N/A
Economies are ranked on their ease of doing business. A high ease of doing business ranking means the regulatory environment is more conducive to the starting and operation of a local firm.
Overall ranking:
110 out of 190 countries
Subcategories:
Starting a Business: 29 out of 190 countries
Dealing with Construction Permits: 152 out of 190 countries
Getting Electricity: 141 out of 190 countries
Registering Property: 112 out of 190 countries
Getting Credit: 48 out of 190 countries
Protecting Minority Investors: 120 out of 190 countries
Paying Taxes: 114 out of 190 countries
Trading across Borders: 163 out of 190 countries
Enforcing Contracts: 94 out of 190 countries
Resolving Insolvency: 85 out of 190 countries
World Bank - Doing Business 2019
118 out of 141 countries (2019)
Ranking: 78 / Score: 62.4 (Moderately free)
(2019)
(100=totally free 0=totally repressed)
Yamoussoukro (legislative capital), Abidjan (administrative capital); note - although Yamoussoukro has been the official capital since 1983, Abidjan remains the administrative capital as well as the officially designated economic capital; the US, like oth
French (official), 60 native dialects of which Dioula is the most widely spoken
Muslim 42.9%, Catholic 17.2%, Evangelical 11.8%, Methodist 1.7%, other Christian 3.2%, animist 3.6%, other religion 0.5%, none 19.1% (2014 est.)Note: the majority of foreign migrant workers are Muslim (72%) and Christian (18%) (2014 est.)
1990 | 2000 | 2010 | 2015* | 2020* |
11.25 million | 16.13 million | 20.86 million | 23.71 million | 26.96 million |
*Estimate
1960 | 1980 | 2000 | 2018 |
17.7% | 36.8% | 43.2% | 50.8% |
Total population: 43.1%
Male: 53.1%
Female: 32.5%
Definition: age 15 and over can read and write (2015 est.)
57.4% (last available estimate, 2015)
41.5 (last available estimate, 2015)
Partly Free
Political Rights: 4
Civil Liberties: 4 (2019)
(1 represents the most free, 7 the least free rating)
Fixed: 1.2% Mobile: 134.9% (2018)
(fixed-telephone subscribers and mobile-cellular subscribers)