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Republic of Côte d'Ivoire
National name: République de la Côte d'lvoire
President: Henri Konan Bédié (1993)
Prime Minister: Daniel Kablan Duncan (1993)
Area: 124,502 sq. mi. (322,460 sq. km)
Population (1999 est.): 15,818,068 (average annual rate of natural increase: 2.56%); birth rate: 41.8/1000; infant mortality rate: 94.2/1000; density per sq. mi.: 127
Capital (1988): Yamoussoukro (official); Abidjan (administrative) (since March 1983), 106,786
Largest city (est. 1988): Abidjan, 2,797,000
Monetary unit: Franc CFA
Languages: French and African languages (Diaula esp.)
Ethnicity/race: Baoule 23%, Bete 18%, Senoufou 15%, Malinke 11%, Agni, foreign Africans (mostly Burkinabe and Malians, about 3 million)
Religions: 60% indigenous, 23% Islam, 17% Christian
Literacy rate: 54%
Economic summary: GDP/PPP (1998 est.): $24.2 billion; $1,680 per capita. Real growth rate: 6%. Inflation: 3.4%. Unemployment: n.a. Arable land: 8%. Agriculture: coffee, cocoa beans, bananas, palm kernels, corn, rice, manioc (tapioca), sweet potatoes, sugar, cotton, rubber; timber. Labor force: n.a. Industry: foodstuffs, beverages; wood products, oil refining, automobile assembly, textiles, fertilizer, construction materials, electricity. Natural resources: petroleum, diamonds, manganese, iron ore, cobalt, bauxite, copper. Exports: $4.3 billion (f.o.b., 1998): cocoa 36%, coffee, tropical woods, petroleum, cotton, bananas, pineapples, palm oil, cotton, fish. Imports: $2.5 billion (f.o.b., 1998): food, consumer goods; capital goods, fuel, transport equipment. Major trading partners: Netherlands, France, Germany, U.S., Italy, Nigeria.
