Ivory Coast 
Facts
Population: 18,013,409
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 2007 est.).
Age structure: 0-14 years: 40.6% (male 3,603,386/female 3,711,211)
15-64 years: 56.6% (male 5,128,824/female 5,060,027)
65 years and over: 2.8% (male 246,130/female 263,831) (2007 est.).
Population growth rate: 1.995% (2007 est.).
Birth rate: 34.69 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Death rate: 14.74 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Net migration rate: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Sex ratio: at birth: 1.03 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 0.971 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.014 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.933 male(s)/female
total population: 0.994 male(s)/female (2007 est.).
Infant mortality rate: total: 87.41 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 103.84 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 70.48 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 49 years
male: 46.43 years
female: 51.66 years (2007 est.).
Total fertility rate: 4.43 children born/woman (2007 est.).
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 7% (2003 est.).
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 570,000 (2003 est.).
HIV/AIDS - deaths: 47,000 (2003 est.).
Nationality: noun: Ivoirian(s)
adjective: Ivoirian.
Ethnic groups: Akan 42.1%, Voltaiques or Gur 17.6%, Northern Mandes 16.5%, Krous 11%, Southern Mandes 10%, other 2.8% (includes 130,000 Lebanese and 14,000 French) (1998).
Religions: Muslim 35-40%, indigenous 25-40%, Christian 20-30% (2001)
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: 50.9%
male: 57.9%
female: 43.6% (2003 est.).
GDP (purchasing power parity): $29.05 billion (2006 est.).
GDP - real growth rate: 1.2% (2006 est.).
GDP - per capita (PPP): $1,600 (2006 est.).
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 27%
industry: 18.5%
services: 54.5% (2006 est.).
Labor force: 6.738 million (68% agricultural) (2006 est.).
Population below poverty line: 37% (1995).
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 3.1%
highest 10%: 28.8% (1995).
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 3.2% (2006 est.).
Unemployment rate: 13% in urban areas (1998).
Budget: revenues: $2.837 billion
expenditures: $3.154 billion; including capital expenditures of $420 million (2006 est.).
Agriculture - products: coffee, cocoa beans, bananas, palm kernels, corn, rice, manioc (tapioca), sweet potatoes, sugar, cotton, rubber; timber.
Industries: foodstuffs, beverages; wood products, oil refining, truck and bus assembly, textiles, fertilizer, building materials, electricity, ship construction and repair.
Industrial production growth rate: 15% (1998 est.).
Electricity - production: 4.625 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - consumption: 3.202 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - exports: 1.1 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (2004).
Exports: $7.832 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Exports - commodities: cocoa, coffee, timber, petroleum, cotton, bananas, pineapples, palm oil, fish.
Exports - partners: France 18.3%, US 14.1%, Netherlands 11%, Nigeria 8%, Panama 4.4% (2005).
Imports: $5.548 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Imports - commodities: fuel, capital equipment, foodstuffs.
Imports - partners: France 27.7%, Nigeria 24.5%, Singapore 6.6% (2005).
Debt - external: $11.96 billion (2006 est.).
Economic aid - recipient: ODA, $1 billion (1996 est.).
Currency (code): Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (XOF); note - responsible authority is the Central Bank of the West African States.
Exchange rates: Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (XOF) per US dollar - 522.89 (2006), 527.47 (2005), 528.29 (2004), 581.2 (2003), 696.99 (2002).
Fiscal year: calendar year.
Statistics: C.I.A. World Factbook. Updated: July 20, 2007.
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(independent), Abidjan
Fraternité-Matin
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Ivoir'Soir
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Le Jeune Démocrate
(Opposition), Abidjan
Le Jour
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Le Patriote
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Liberté
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Ivory Coast in the News
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The peace accord signed in March promised to "make it easier" for people to prove their Ivorian citizenship by laying out a process to accelerate the issuing of national identity cards.
The Ivory Coast, once an oasis of stability in war torn West Africa sinks deeper into chaos
Tope Akinwande reports on the quack doctors selling fake, often deadly 'medicines' in Africa and the international trade that supplies them.
Odinaka Anaele reports on the reaction in Abidjan to the killing of the French journalist Jean Helene.
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