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Background:


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Location: Western Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, between Ghana and Liberia

Geographic coordinates: 8 00 N, 5 00 W

Map reference: Africa

Area
Total: 322,463 km²
Land: 318,003 km²
Water: 4,460 km²
Comparative: slightly larger than New Mexico

Land boundaries
Total: 3,458 km
Border countries: (5) Burkina Faso 545 km; Ghana 720 km; Guinea 816 km; Liberia 778 km; Mali 599 km

Coastline: 515 km

Maritime claims
Territorial sea: 12 nm
Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
Continental shelf: 200 nm

Climate: tropical along coast, semiarid in far north; three seasons - warm and dry (November to March), hot and dry (March to May), hot and wet (June to October)

Terrain: mostly flat to undulating plains; mountains in northwest

Elevation
Highest point: Monts Nimba 1,752 m
Lowest point: Gulf of Guinea 0 m
Mean elevation: 250 m

Natural resources: petroleum, natural gas, diamonds, manganese, iron ore, cobalt, bauxite, copper, gold, nickel, tantalum, silica sand, clay, cocoa beans, coffee, palm oil, hydropower

Land use
Agricultural land: 64.8% (2018 est.)
Forest: 32.7% (2018 est.)
Other: 2.5% (2018 est.)

Irrigated land: 730 km² (2012)

Major rivers

Major watersheds area km²: Atlantic Ocean drainage: Niger (2,261,741 km²), Volta (410,991 km²)

Total water withdrawal
Municipal: 320 million cubic meters (2017 est.)
Industrial: 242 million cubic meters (2017 est.)
Agricultural: 600 million cubic meters (2017 est.)

Total renewable water resources: 84.14 billion cubic meters (2017 est.)

Natural hazards: coast has heavy surf and no natural harbors; during the rainy season torrential flooding is possible

Geography
Note: most of the inhabitants live along the sandy coastal region; apart from the capital area, the forested interior is sparsely populated


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Population
Distribution: the population is primarily located in the forested south, with the highest concentration of people residing in and around the cities on the Atlantic coast; most of the northern savanna remains sparsely populated with higher concentrations located along transportation corridors : 28,713,423 (2022 est.)
Growth rate: 2.19% (2022 est.)
Below poverty line: 39.5% (2018 est.)

Nationality
Noun: Ivoirian(s)
Adjective: Ivoirian

Ethnic groups: Akan 28.9%, Voltaique or Gur 16.1%, Northern Mande 14.5%, Kru 8.5%, Southern Mande 6.9%, unspecified 0.9%, non-Ivoirian 24.2% (2014 est.)

Languages: French (official), 60 native dialects of which Dioula is the most widely spoken
Major language samples:

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%)

Demographic profile: Cote d’Ivoire’s population is likely to continue growing for the foreseeable future because almost 60% of the populace is younger than 25, the total fertility rate is holding steady at about 3.5 children per woman, and contraceptive use is under 20%. The country will need to improve education, health care, and gender equality in order to turn its large and growing youth cohort into human capital. Even prior to 2010 unrest that shuttered schools for months, access to education was poor, especially for women. The lack of educational attainment contributes to Cote d’Ivoire’s high rates of unskilled labor, adolescent pregnancy, and HIV/AIDS prevalence.

Age structure
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% (male 349,822/female 433,385) (2020 est.)

Dependency ratios
Total dependency ratio: 79.2
Youth dependency ratio: 74.9
Elderly dependency ratio: 4.3
Potential support ratio: 19.3 (2021 est.)

Median age
Total: 20.3 years
Male: 20.3 years
Female: 20.3 years (2020 est.)

Population growth rate: 2.19% (2022 est.)

Birth rate: 28.3 births/1000 population (2022 est.)

Death rate: 7.6 deaths/1000 population (2022 est.)

Net migration rate: 1.18 migrant(s)/1000 population (2022 est.)

Population distribution: the population is primarily located in the forested south, with the highest concentration of people residing in and around the cities on the Atlantic coast; most of the northern savanna remains sparsely populated with higher concentrations located along transportation corridors

Urbanization
Urban population: 53.1% of total population (2023)
Rate of urbanization: 3.38% annual rate of change (2020-25 est.)

Major urban areas
Population: 231,000 YAMOUSSOUKRO (capital) (2018), 5.686 million ABIDJAN (seat of government) (2023)

Environment
Current issues: deforestation (most of the country's forests - once the largest in West Africa - have been heavily logged); water pollution from sewage, and from industrial, mining, and agricultural effluents
International agreements party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Climate Change-Paris Agreement, Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping-London Convention, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 2006, Wetlands, Whaling
International agreements signed but not ratified: none of the selected agreements

Air pollutants
Particulate matter emissions: 23.72 micrograms per cubic meter (2016 est.)
Carbon dioxide emissions: 9.67 megatons (2016 est.)
Methane emissions: 10.3 megatons (2020 est.)

Sex ratio
At birth: 1.03 male(s)/female
0-14 years: 1.06 male(s)/female
15-24 years: 1.07 male(s)/female
25-54 years: 1.06 male(s)/female
55-64 years: 0.97 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.58 male(s)/female
Total population: 0.97 male(s)/female (2022 est.)

Mothers mean age at first birth: 19.6 years (2011/12 est.)
Note: data represents median age at first birth among women 20-49

Maternal mortality ratio: 617 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)

Infant mortality rate
Total: 55.67 deaths/1000 live births
Male: 62.99 deaths/1000 live births
Female: 48.13 deaths/1000 live births (2022 est.)

Life expectancy at birth
Total population: 62.26 years
Male: 60.07 years
Female: 64.52 years (2022 est.)

Total fertility rate: 3.53 children born/woman (2022 est.)

Contraceptive prevalence rate: 27.8% (2020)

Drinking water source
Improved:
Unimproved:

Current health expenditure: 3.3% of GDP (2019)

Physicians density: 0.16 physicians/1000 population (2019)

Hospital bed density

Sanitation facility access
Improved:
Unimproved:

Hiv/Aids
Adult prevalence rate: 1.9% (2021 est.)

Major infectious diseases
Degree of risk: very high (2020)
Food or water borne diseases: bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever
Vector borne diseases: malaria, dengue fever, and yellow fever
Watercontactdiseases: schistosomiasis
Animalcontactdiseases: rabies
Respiratorydiseases: meningococcal meningitis

Obesity adult prevalence rate: 10.3% (2016)

Alcohol consumption
Per capita total: 1.7 liters of pure alcohol (2019 est.)
Per capita beer: 1.13 liters of pure alcohol (2019 est.)
Per capita wine: 0.33 liters of pure alcohol (2019 est.)
Per capita spirits: 0.2 liters of pure alcohol (2019 est.)
Per capita other alcohols: 0.04 liters of pure alcohol (2019 est.)

Tobacco use
Total: 9.4% (2020 est.)
Male: 17.9% (2020 est.)
Female: 0.9% (2020 est.)

Children under the age of 5 years underweight: 12.8% (2016)

Education expenditures: 3.4% of GDP (2020 est.)

Literacy
Definition: age 15 and over can read and write
Total population: 89.9%
Male: 93.1%
Female: 86.7% (2019)

School life expectancy primary to tertiary education
Total: 11 years
Male: 11 years
Female: 10 years (2020)

Youth unemployment
Rate ages 15-24 total: 4.1%
Rate ages 15-24 male: 3.4%
Rate ages 15-24 female: 4.9% (2019 est.)


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Country name
Conventional long form: Republic of Cote d'Ivoire
Conventional short form: Cote d'Ivoire
Local long form: Republique de Cote d'Ivoire
Local short form: Cote d'Ivoire
Former: Ivory Coast
Etymology: name reflects the intense ivory trade that took place in the region from the 15th to 17th centuries
Note: pronounced coat-div-whar

Government type: presidential republic

Capital
Name: 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 other countries, maintains its Embassy in Abidjan
Geographic coordinates: 6 49 N, 5 16 W
Time difference: UTC 0 (5 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time)
Etymology: Yamoussoukro is named after Queen YAMOUSSOU, who ruled in the village of N'Gokro in 1929 at the time of French colonization; the village was renamed Yamoussoukro, the suffix "-kro" meaning "town" in the native Baoule language; Abidjan's name supposedly comes from a misunderstanding; tradition states that an old man carrying branches met a European explorer who asked for the name of the nearest village; the man, not understanding and terrified by this unexpected encounter, fled shouting "min-chan m’bidjan," which in the Ebrie language means: "I return from cutting leaves"; the explorer, thinking that his question had been answered, recorded the name of the locale as Abidjan; a different version has the first colonists asking native women the name of the place and getting a similar response

Administrative divisions: 12 districts and 2 autonomous districts*; Abidjan*, Bas-Sassandra, Comoe, Denguele, Goh-Djiboua, Lacs, Lagunes, Montagnes, Sassandra-Marahoue, Savanes, Vallee du Bandama, Woroba, Yamoussoukro*, Zanzan

Dependent areas

Independence: 7 August 1960 (from France)

National holiday: Independence Day, 7 August (1960)

Constitution
History: previous 1960, 2000; latest draft completed 24 September 2016, approved by the National Assembly 11 October 2016, approved by referendum 30 October 2016, promulgated 8 November 2016
Amendments: proposed by the president of the republic or by Parliament; consideration of drafts or proposals requires an absolute majority vote by the parliamentary membership; passage of amendments affecting presidential elections, presidential term of office and vacancies, and amendment procedures requires approval by absolute majority in a referendum; passage of other proposals by the president requires at least four-fifths majority vote by Parliament; constitutional articles on the sovereignty of the state and its republican and secular form of government cannot be amended; amended 2020

Legal system: civil law system based on the French civil code; judicial review of legislation held in the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court

International law organization participation: accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction with reservations; accepts ICCt jurisdiction

Citizenship
Citizenship by birth: no
Citizenship by descentonly: at least one parent must be a citizen of Cote d'Ivoire
Dual citizenship recognized: no
Residency requirement for naturalization: 5 years

Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal

Executive branch
Chief of state: President Alassane Dramane OUATTARA (since 4 December 2010); Vice President Tiémoko Meyliet KONE (since 19 April 2022); note - Vice President Tiémoko Meyliet KONE was appointed by President Alassane Dramane OUATTARA before a Congressional meeting on 19 April 2022
Head of government: Prime Minister Patrick ACHI (since 19 April 2022); note - Prime Minister ACHI resigned on 13 April 2022 and was reappointed by President Alassane Dramane OUATTARA before a Congressional meeting on 19 April 2022
Cabinet: Council of Ministers appointed by the president
Elections and appointments: president directly elected by absolute majority popular vote in 2 rounds if needed for a single renewable 5-year term ; election last held on 31 October 2020 (next to be held in October 2025); vice president elected on same ballot as president; prime minister appointed by the president; note - because President OUATTARA promulgated the new constitution during his second term, he has claimed that the clock is reset on term limits, allowing him to run for up to two additional terms
Election results: Alassane OUATTARA reelected president; percent of vote - Alassane OUATTARA (RDR) 94.3%, Kouadio Konan BERTIN (PDCI-RDA) 2.0%, other 3.7% (2020)

Legislative branch
Description: bicameral Parliament consists of:
Senate or Senat (99 seats; 66 members indirectly elected by the National Assembly and members of municipal, autonomous districts, and regional councils, and 33 members appointed by the president; members serve 5-year terms)
National Assembly (255 seats - 254 for 2021-2026 term; members directly elected in single- and multi-seat constituencies by simple majority vote to serve 5-year terms)
Elections: 
Senate - first ever held on 25 March 2018 (next to be held on 31 March 2023)
National Assembly - last held on 6 March 2021 (next to be held on 31 March 2026)

Judicial branch
Highest courts: Supreme Court or Cour Supreme (organized into Judicial, Audit, Constitutional, and Administrative Chambers; consists of the court president, 3 vice presidents for the Judicial, Audit, and Administrative chambers, and 9 associate justices or magistrates)
Judge selection and term of office: judges nominated by the Superior Council of the Magistrature, a 7-member body consisting of the national president (chairman), 3 "bench" judges, and 3 public prosecutors; judges appointed for life
Subordinate courts: Courts of Appeal (organized into civil, criminal, and social chambers); first instance courts; peace courts

Political parties and leaders: African Peoples' Party-Cote d'Ivoire or PPA-CI [Laurent GBAGBO]
Democratic Party of Cote d'Ivoire or PDCI [Henri Konan BEDIE]
Ivorian Popular Front or FPI [Pascal Affi N'GUESSAN]
Liberty and Democracy for the Republic or LIDER [Mamadou KOULIBALY]
Movement of the Future Forces or MFA [Innocent Augustin ANAKY KOBENA]
Pan-African Congress for People's Justice and Equality or COJEP [Charles BLE GOUDE]
Rally of Houphouetists for Democracy and Peace or RHDP [Alassane Dramane OUATTARA] 
Rally of the Republicans or RDR [Henriette DIABATE]
Together for Democracy and Sovereignty or EDS [Georges Armand OUEGNIN]
Together to Build (UDPCI, FPI,and allies) [Toikeuse MABRI]
Union for Cote d'Ivoire or UPCI [Gnamien KONAN]
Union for Democracy and Peace in Cote d'Ivoire or UDPCI [Albert Toikeusse MABRI]

International organization participation: ACP, AfDB, AU, ECOWAS, EITI (compliant country), Entente, FAO, FZ, G-24, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, MINUSMA, MONUSCO, NAM, OIC, OIF, OPCW, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNHRC, UNIDO, Union Latina, UN Security Council (temporary), UNWTO, UPU, WADB (regional), WAEMU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO

Diplomatic representation
In the us chief of mission: Ambassador Ibrahima TOURE (since 13 January 2022)
In the us chancery: 2,424 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20,008
In the us telephone: [1] (202) 797-0300
In the us FAX: [1] (202) 462-9,444
In the us email address and website:

Flag description: three equal vertical bands of orange (hoist side), white, and green; orange symbolizes the land (savannah) of the north and fertility, white stands for peace and unity, green represents the forests of the south and the hope for a bright future
Note: similar to the flag of Ireland, which is longer and has the colors reversed - green (hoist side), white, and orange; also similar to the flag of Italy, which is green (hoist side), white, and red; design was based on the flag of France

National symbols: elephant; national colors: orange, white, green

National anthem
Name: "L'Abidjanaise" (Song of Abidjan)
Lyrics and music: Mathieu EKRA, Joachim BONY, and Pierre Marie COTY/Pierre Marie COTY and Pierre Michel PANGO
Note: adopted 1960; although the nation's capital city moved from Abidjan to Yamoussoukro in 1983, the anthem still owes its name to the former capital

National heritage
Total world heritage sites: 5 (2 cultural, 3 natural)
Selected world heritage site locales:


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Economy overview

Real gdp purchasing power parity:
Note: data are in 2017 dollars

Real gdp growth rate:

Real gdp per capita:
Note: data are in 2017 dollars

Gross national saving

Gdp composition by end use
Household consumption: 61.7% (2017 est.)
Government consumption: 14.9% (2017 est.)
Investment in fixed capital: 22.4% (2017 est.)
Investment in inventories: 0.3% (2017 est.)
Exports of goods and services: 30.8% (2017 est.)
Imports of goods and services: -30.1% (2017 est.)

Gdp composition by sector of origin
Agriculture: 20.1% (2017 est.)
Industry: 26.6% (2017 est.)
Services: 53.3% (2017 est.)

Agriculture products: yams, cassava, cocoa, oil palm fruit, sugar cane, rice, plantains, maize, cashew nuts, rubber

Industries: foodstuffs, beverages; wood products, oil refining, gold mining, truck and bus assembly, textiles, fertilizer, building materials, electricity

Industrial production growth rate: 4.2% (2017 est.)

Labor force: 8.747 million (2017 est.)
By occupation agriculture: 68% (2007 est.)

Unemployment rate: 9.4% (2013 est.)

Youth unemployment
Rate ages 15-24 total: 4.1%
Rate ages 15-24 male: 3.4%
Rate ages 15-24 female: 4.9% (2019 est.)

Population below poverty line: 39.5% (2018 est.)

Gini index
Coefficient distribution of family income:

Household income or consumption by percentage share
Lowest 10: 2.2%
Highest 10: 31.8% (2008)

Distribution of family income gini index

Budget
Revenues: $7.749 billion (2017 est.)
Expenditures: $9.464 billion (2017 est.)
Surplus or deficit: $-4.2% (of GDP) (2017 est.)

Taxes and other revenues: 19.1% (of GDP) (2017 est.)

Public debt:

Revenue
From forest resources forest revenues: 2.04% of GDP (2016 est.)
From coal coal revenues: 0% of GDP (2018 est.)

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Current account balance:

Exports:
Note: Data are in current year dollars and do not include illicit exports or re-exports.
Partners: Netherlands 10%, United States 6%, France 6%, Spain 5%, Malaysia 5%, Switzerland 5%, Germany 5%, Vietnam 5% (2019)
Commodities: cocoa beans, gold, rubber, refined petroleum, crude petroleum (2019)

Imports:
Partners: China 18%, Nigeria 13%, France 11% (2019)
Commodities: crude petroleum, rice, frozen fish, refined petroleum, packaged medicines (2019)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:

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Exchange rates:


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Electricity
Access electrification total population: 76% (2019)
Access electrification urban areas: 99% (2019)
Access electrification rural areas: 51% (2019)
Installed generating capacity: 2.197 million kW (2020 est.)
Consumption: 5,924,320,000 kWh (2019 est.)
Exports: $1.178 billion kWh (2019 est.)
Imports: 172 million kWh (2019 est.)
Transmission distribution losses: 1.957 billion kWh (2019 est.)
Generation sources fossil fuels: 75.6% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)
Generation sources nuclear: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)
Generation sources solar: 0.2% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)
Generation sources wind: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)
Generation sources hydroelectricity: 24.2% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)
Generation sources tide and wave: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)
Generation sources geothermal: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)
Generation sources biomass and waste: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

Coal
Production: 0 metric tons (2020 est.)
Consumption: 0 metric tons (2020 est.)
Exports: 0 metric tons (2020 est.)
Imports: 0 metric tons (2020 est.)
Proven reserves: 0 metric tons (2019 est.)

Petroleum
Total petroleum production: 33,000 bbl/day (2021 est.)
Refined petroleum consumption: 56,500 bbl/day (2019 est.)
Crude oil and lease condensate exports: 30,200 bbl/day (2018 est.)
Crude oil and lease condensate imports: 69,200 bbl/day (2018 est.)
Crude oil estimated reserves: 100 million barrels (2021 est.)

Crude oil

Refined petroleum
Products production: 69,360 bbl/day (2017 est.)
Products exports: 31,450 bbl/day (2015 est.)
Products imports: 7,405 bbl/day (2015 est.)

Natural gas
Production: 2.425 billion cubic meters (2019 est.)
Consumption: 2.425 billion cubic meters (2019 est.)
Exports: 0 cubic meters (2021 est.)
Imports: 0 cubic meters (2021 est.)
Proven reserves: 28.317 billion cubic meters (2021 est.)

Carbon dioxide emissions: 11.88 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)
From coal and metallurgical coke: 0 metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)
From petroleum and other liquids: 7.332 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)
From consumed natural gas: 4.548 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

Energy consumption per capita: 8.225 million Btu/person (2019 est.)


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Telephones
Fixed lines total subscriptions: 264,073 (2020 est.)
Fixed lines subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 1 (2020 est.)
Mobile cellular total subscriptions: 40,095,246 (2020 est.)
Mobile cellular subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 152 (2020 est.)

Telephone system

Broadcast media: state-controlled Radiodiffusion Television Ivoirieinne (RTI) is made up of 2 radio stations (Radio Cote d'Ivoire and Frequence2) and 2 television stations (RTI1 and RTI2), with nationwide coverage, broadcasts mainly in French; after 2011 post-electoral crisis, President OUATTARA's administration reopened RTI Bouake', the broadcaster's office in Cote d'Ivoire's 2nd largest city, where facilities were destroyed during the 2002 rebellion; Cote d'Ivoire is also home to 178 proximity radio stations, 16 religious radio stations, 5 commercial radio stations, and 5 international radios stations, according to the Haute Autorite' de la Communication Audiovisuelle (HACA); govt now runs radio UNOCIFM, a radio station previously owned by the UN Operation in Cote d'Ivoire; in Dec 2016, the govt announced 4 companies had been granted licenses to operate -Live TV, Optimum Media Cote d'Ivoire, the Audiovisual Company of Cote d'Ivoire (Sedaci), and Sorano-CI, out of the 4 companies only one has started operating (2019)

Internet
Country code: .ci
Users total: 9,496,179 (2020 est.)
Users percent of population: 36% (2020 est.)

Broadband fixed subscriptions
Total: 260,097 (2020 est.)
Subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 1 (2020 est.)


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Military expenditures:

Military and security forces: Armed Forces of Cote d'Ivoire (Forces Armees de Cote d'Ivoire, FACI; aka Republican Forces of Ivory Coast, FRCI): Army, Navy, Cote Air Force, Special Forces; National Gendarmerie (under the Ministry of Defense); Ministry of Security and Civil Protection: National Police; Coordination Center for Operational Decisions (a mix of police, gendarmerie, and FACI personnel for assisting police in providing security in some large cities) (2022)

Military service age and obligation: 18-25 years of age for compulsory and voluntary male and female military service; conscription is not enforced; voluntary recruitment of former rebels into the new national army is restricted to ages 22-29 (2022)

Space program

Terrorist groups: al-Qa'ida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM); Jama’at Nusrat al Islam wal Muslimeen (JNIM)
Note: details about the history, aims, leadership, organization, areas of operation, tactics, targets, weapons, size, and sources of support of the group(s) appear(s) in Appendix T


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National air transport system
Number of registered air carriers: 1 (2020)
Inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 10
Annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 779,482 (2018)
Annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 5.8 million (2018) mt-km

Civil aircraft registration country code prefix: TU

Airports
Total: 27 (2021)
With paved runways total: 7
With paved runways over 3047 m: 1
With paved runways 2438 to 3047 m: 2
With paved runways 15-24 to 2437 m: 4 (2021)
With unpaved runways total: 20
With unpaved runways 15-24 to 2437 m: 6
With unpaved runways 914 to 1523 m: 11
With unpaved runways under 914 m: 3 (2021)

Heliports: 1 (2021)

Pipelines: 101 km condensate, 256 km gas, 118 km oil, 5 km oil/gas/water, 7 km water (2013)

Railways
Total: 660 km (2008)
Narrowgauge: 660 km (2008) 1.000-m gauge
Note: an additional 622 km of this railroad extends into Burkina Faso

Roadways
Total: 81,996 km (2007)
Paved: 6,502 km (2007)
Unpaved: 75,494 km (2007)
Note: includes intercity and urban roads; another 20,000 km of dirt roads are in poor condition and 150,000 km of dirt roads are impassable

Waterways: 980 km (2011) (navigable rivers, canals, and numerous coastal lagoons)

Merchant marine
Total: 25
By type: oil tanker 2, other 23 (2021)

Ports and terminals
Major seaport: Abidjan, San-Pedro
Oil terminals: Espoir Offshore Terminal


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Disputes international: disputed maritime border between Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana

Refugees and internally displaced persons
IDPs: 302,000 (post-election conflict in 2010-11, as well as civil war from 2002-04; land disputes; most pronounced in western and southwestern regions) (2021)
Stateless persons: 952,969 (mid-year 2021); note - many Ivoirians lack documentation proving their nationality, which prevent them from accessing education and healthcare; birth on Ivorian soil does not automatically result in citizenship; disputes over citizenship and the associated rights of the large population descended from migrants from neighboring countries is an ongoing source of tension and contributed to the country's 2002 civil war; some observers believe the government's mass naturalizations of thousands of people over the last couple of years is intended to boost its electoral support base; the government in October 2013 acceded to international conventions on statelessness and in August 2013 reformed its nationality law, key steps to clarify the nationality of thousands of residents; since the adoption of the Abidjan Declaration to eradicate statelessness in West Africa in February 2015, 6,400 people have received nationality papers in Cote d'Ivoire; in September 2020, Cote d'Ivoire adopted Africa's first statelessness determination procedure to regularize the status of stateless people

Illicit drugs: illicit producer of cannabis, mostly for local consumption; utility as a narcotic transshipment point to Europe reduced by ongoing political instability; while rampant corruption and inadequate supervision leave the banking system vulnerable to money laundering, the lack of a developed financial system limits the country's utility as a major money-laundering center