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demographic
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features of the
population
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of
Ivory Coast
Ivory Coast, also known as Côte d'Ivoire, officially the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a country on the southern coast of West Africa. Its capital is Yamoussoukro, in the centre of the country, while its largest city and economic centre is ...
, including
population density
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,
ethnicity
An ethnic group or an ethnicity is a grouping of people who identify with each other on the basis of shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups. Those attributes can include common sets of traditions, ancestry, language, history, ...
, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
Population
According to the total population was in , compared to only 2 630 000 in 1950. The proportion of children below the age of 15 in 2010 was 40.9%, 55.3% was between 15 and 65 years of age, while 3.8% was 65 years or older
.
Population Estimates by Sex and Age Group (01.VII.2020):
Population Growth:
1.88% (2016 est.)
Vital statistics
Registration of vital events in the Ivory Coast is not complete. The website
Our World in Data prepared the following estimates based on statistics from the Population Department of the
United Nations
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.
Fertility and Births
Total Fertility Rate (TFR) (Wanted Fertility Rate) and Crude Birth Rate (CBR):
Fertility data as of 2011-2012 (DHS Program):
Ethnic groups
Ivory Coast
Ivory Coast, also known as Côte d'Ivoire, officially the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a country on the southern coast of West Africa. Its capital is Yamoussoukro, in the centre of the country, while its largest city and economic centre is ...
has more than 60 ethnic groups, usually classified into five principal divisions:
Akan (east and center, including Lagoon peoples of the southeast),
Krou
The Kru, Kroo, Krou or Kuru are a West African ethnic group who are indigenous to western Ivory Coast and eastern Liberia. They migrated and settled along various points of the West African coast, notably Freetown, Sierra Leone, but also the Ivo ...
(southwest),
Southern Mandé (west),
Northern Mandé (northwest), Sénoufo/
Lobi (north center and northeast). The Baoulés, in the Akan division, probably comprise the largest single subgroup with 15%-20% of the population. They are based in the central region around
Bouaké and
Yamoussoukro
Yamoussoukro (; , locally ) is the ''de jure'' capital of Ivory Coast and an autonomous district. As of the 2014 census, Yamoussoukro is the fifth most populous city in Ivory Coast with a population of 212,670. Located north-west of Abidjan, th ...
. The Bétés in the Krou division, the Sénoufos in the north, and the Malinkés in the northwest and the cities are the next largest groups, with 10%-15% of the national population. Most of the principal divisions have a significant presence in neighboring countries.
Of the more than 5 million non-Ivorian Africans living in Ivory Coast, one-third to one-half are from
Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso (, ; , ff, 𞤄𞤵𞤪𞤳𞤭𞤲𞤢 𞤊𞤢𞤧𞤮, italic=no) is a landlocked country in West Africa with an area of , bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the ...
; the rest are from
Ghana
Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, and To ...
,
Guinea
Guinea ( ),, fuf, 𞤘𞤭𞤲𞤫, italic=no, Gine, wo, Gine, nqo, ߖߌ߬ߣߍ߫, bm, Gine officially the Republic of Guinea (french: République de Guinée), is a coastal country in West Africa. It borders the Atlantic Ocean to the we ...
,
Mali
Mali (; ), officially the Republic of Mali,, , ff, 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞥆𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 𞤃𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭, Renndaandi Maali, italics=no, ar, جمهورية مالي, Jumhūriyyāt Mālī is a landlocked country in West Africa. Mali ...
,
Nigeria
Nigeria ( ), , ig, Naìjíríyà, yo, Nàìjíríà, pcm, Naijá , ff, Naajeeriya, kcg, Naijeriya officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf o ...
,
Benin
Benin ( , ; french: Bénin , ff, Benen), officially the Republic of Benin (french: République du Bénin), and formerly Dahomey, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Togo to the west, Nigeria to the east, Burkina Faso to the north ...
,
Senegal
Senegal,; Wolof: ''Senegaal''; Pulaar: 𞤅𞤫𞤲𞤫𞤺𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭 (Senegaali); Arabic: السنغال ''As-Sinighal'') officially the Republic of Senegal,; Wolof: ''Réewum Senegaal''; Pulaar : 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 ...
,
Liberia
Liberia (), officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast. It is bordered by Sierra Leone to Liberia–Sierra Leone border, its northwest, Guinea to its north, Ivory Coast to its east, and the Atlantic Ocean ...
, and
Mauritania
Mauritania (; ar, موريتانيا, ', french: Mauritanie; Berber: ''Agawej'' or ''Cengit''; Pulaar: ''Moritani''; Wolof: ''Gànnaar''; Soninke:), officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania ( ar, الجمهورية الإسلامية ...
. The non-African expatriate community includes roughly 50,000 French (this number may be inaccurate due to the evacuation of roughly 8,000 Frenchmen in November 2004) and possibly 40,000 Lebanese. The number of elementary school-aged children attending classes increased from 22% in 1960 to 67% in 1995.
Languages
French
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is the official language, while there are 60 living indigenous languages spoken in Ivory Coast. The
Dioula dialect of
Bambara is the most widely spoken one. Other language groups include the
Gur languages, the
Senufo languages, the
Kru languages (including the
Bété languages
The Bété languages are a language cluster
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,
Dida
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,
Nyabwa,
Wè, and
Western Krahn), and the
Kwa languages
The Kwa languages, often specified as New Kwa, are a proposed but as-yet-undemonstrated family of languages spoken in the south-eastern part of Ivory Coast, across southern Ghana, and in central Togo. The name was introduced 1895 by Gottlob Kra ...
(including
Akan,
Anyin, and
Baoulé).
Religion
The
economic development
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and relative prosperity of Ivory Coast fostered huge demographic shifts during the 20th century. "In 1922, an estimated 100,000 out of 1.6 million (or 6 percent) of people in Côte d'Ivoire were Muslims. By contrast, at independence (in 1960), their share of the population had increased rapidly, and Muslims were moving southward to the cocoa-producing areas and the southern cities. By 1998,
.. Muslims constituted a majority in the north of the country, and approximately 38.6 percent of the total population. This was a significantly larger population than the next largest religious group, Christians, who constituted approximately 29.1 percent of the total." In earlier decades, this shift was mainly due to large-scale immigration from neighboring countries of the interior, that has been going on since colonial times and continued to be promoted during the
Houphouet-Boigny era. Since the 1990s, the widening fertility gap between different religious groups has continued to tilt the demographic balance in favor of Muslims although immigration has become less important.
Ivorian diaspora
The table below shows the number of people born in Ivory Coast who have migrated to
OECD
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countries only (the table only includes communities consisting of at least 1,000 members).
Other demographic statistics
Demographic statistics according to the World Population Review in 2022.
*One birth every 33 seconds
*One death every 2 minutes
*One net migrant every 360 minutes
*Net gain of one person every 46 seconds
The following demographic are from the
CIA World Factbook
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unless otherwise indicated.
Population
:28,713,423 (2022 est.)
:26,260,582 (July 2018 est.)
:21,058,798 (2010 est.)
Age structure
![Côte d'Ivoire single age population pyramid 2020](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/C%C3%B4te_d%27Ivoire_single_age_population_pyramid_2020.png)
:''0-14 years:'' 38.53% (male 5,311,971/female 5,276,219)
:''15-24 years:'' 20.21% (male 2,774,374/female 2,779,012)
:''25-54 years:'' 34.88% (male 4,866,957/female 4,719,286)
:''55-64 years:'' 3.53% (male 494,000/female 476,060)
:''65 years and over:'' 2.85% (2020 est.) (male 349,822/female 433,385)
:''0-14 years:'' 39.59% (male 5,213,630 /female 5,182,872)
:''15-24 years:'' 19.91% (male 2,613,772 /female 2,615,680)
:''25-54 years:'' 34.25% (male 4,577,394 /female 4,416,408)
:''55-64 years:'' 3.47% (male 460,048 /female 451,604)
:''65 years and over:'' 2.78% (male 325,510 /female 403,664) (2018 est.)
:total: 19.9 years. Country comparison to the world: 192nd
:male: 20 years
:female: 19.8 years (2018 est.)
Birth rate
:28.3 births/1,000 population (2022 est.) Country comparison to the world: 35th
:30.1 births/1,000 population (2018 est.) Country comparison to the world: 36th
Death rate
:7.6 deaths/1,000 population (2022 est.) Country comparison to the world: 105th
:8.4 deaths/1,000 population (2018 est.) Country comparison to the world: 80th
Total fertility rate
The total fertility rate (TFR) of a population is the average number of children that would be born to a woman over her lifetime if:
# she were to experience the exact current age-specific fertility rates (ASFRs) through her lifetime
# she were t ...
:3.53 children born/woman (2022 est.) Country comparison to the world: 37th
:3.83 children born/woman (2018 est.) Country comparison to the world: 38th
Population growth rate
:2.19% (2022 est.) Country comparison to the world: 36th
:2.3% (2018 est.) Country comparison to the world: 33rd
Median age
:total: 20.3 years. Country comparison to the world: 190th
:male: 20.3 years
:female: 20.3 years (2020 est.)
Mother's mean age at first birth
:19.6 years (2011/12 est.)
:note: median age at first birth among women 20-49
Contraceptive prevalence rate
:23.3% (2018)
:15.5% (2016)
Net migration rate
:1.18 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2022 est.) Country comparison to the world: 62nd
:0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2017 est.) Country comparison to the world: 79th
Sex ratio
Life expectancy at birth
:total population: 62.26 years. Country comparison to the world: 212nd
:male: 60.07 years
:female: 64.52 years (2022 est.)
:total population: 60.1 years (2018 est.)
:male: 58 years (2018 est.)
:female: 62.4 years (2018 est.)
Dependency ratios
:total dependency ratio: 83.8 (2015 est.)
:youth dependency ratio: 78.5 (2015 est.)
:elderly dependency ratio: 5.3 (2015 est.)
:
potential support ratio
The potential support ratio (PSR) is the number of people age 15–64 per one older person aged 65 or older. This ratio describes the burden placed on the working population (unemployment and children are not considered in this measure) by the non ...
: 18.9 (2015 est.)
Urbanization
:urban population: 52.7% of total population (2022)
:rate of urbanization: 3.38% annual rate of change (2020–25 est.)
:urban population: 50.8% of total population (2018)
:rate of urbanization: 3.38% annual rate of change (2015–20 est.)
Religions
: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 (72.7%) and Christian (17.7%)
HIV/AIDS
:adult prevalence rate: 2.8% (2017 est.)
:people living with HIV/AIDS: 500,000 (2017 est.)
:deaths: 24,000 (2017 est.)
Major infectious diseases
Note: highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza has been identified in this country; it poses a negligible risk with extremely rare cases possible among US citizens who have close contact with birds (2009)
Nationality
Noun and adjective: Ivorian (Ivoirian)
Ethnic Groups
Education expenditures
:3.7% of GDP (2019) Country comparison to the world: 112nd
Literacy
definition: age 15 and over can read and write (2015 est.)
:total population: 89.9%
:male: 93.1%
:female: 86.7% (2019)
:total population: 47.2% (2018 est.)
:male: 53.7% (2018 est.)
:female: 40.5% (2018 est.)
School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)
:total: 10 years
:male: 11 years
:female: 10 years (2019)
Unemployment, youth ages 15-24
:total: 3.9% (2016 est.)
:male: 2.8% (2016 est.)
:female: 5.1% (2016 est.)
Major infectious diseases
:degree of risk: very high (2020)
:food or waterborne diseases: bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever
:vectorborne diseases: malaria, dengue fever, and yellow fever
:water contact diseases: schistosomiasis
:animal contact diseases: rabies
:respiratory diseases: meningococcal meningitis
See also
*
French people in Ivory Coast French Ivorians are those who were born in or reside in Ivory Coast, who descend from French community. There was a small but prominent French community in Ivory Coast until 2002, when a failed coup d'état and civil war led to anti-French riot ...
References
{{Africa in topic, Demographics of
Society of Ivory Coast