For the last 5 years Cote d'Ivoire's growth rate has been among the highest in the world. Cote d'Ivoire is heavily dependent on agriculture and related activities, which engage roughly two-thirds of the population. Cote d'Ivoire is the world's largest producer and exporter of cocoa beans and a significant producer and exporter of coffee and palm oil. Consequently, the economy is highly sensitive to fluctuations in international prices for these products and to climatic conditions. Cocoa, oil, and coffee are the country's top export revenue earners, but the country has targeted agricultural processing of cocoa, cashews, mangoes, and other commodities as a high priority. Mining gold and exporting electricity are growing industries outside agriculture.
Following the end of more than a decade of civil conflict in 2011, Cote d’Ivoire has experienced a boom in foreign investment and economic growth. In June 2012, the IMF and the World Bank announced $4.4 billion in debt relief for Cote d'Ivoire under the Highly Indebted Poor Countries Initiative.
7.8% (2017 est.)
8.3% (2016 est.)
8.8% (2015 est.)
-1.1% (2019 est.)
0.3% (2018 est.)
0.6% (2017 est.)
Fitch rating: B+ (2015)
Moody's rating: Ba3 (2015)
$134.048 billion (2019 est.)
$126.185 billion (2018 est.)
$118.051 billion (2017 est.)
note: data are in 2017 dollars
$42.498 billion (2018 est.)
$5,213 (2019 est.)
$5,033 (2018 est.)
$4,831 (2017 est.)
note: data are in 2017 dollars
15.7% of GDP (2018 est.)
17.4% of GDP (2017 est.)
19.5% of GDP (2015 est.)
agriculture: 20.1% (2017 est.)
industry: 26.6% (2017 est.)
services: 53.3% (2017 est.)
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.)
Overall score: 60.7 (2020)
Starting a Business score: 93.7 (2020)
Trading score: 52.4 (2020)
Enforcement score: 57.6 (2020)
yams, cassava, cocoa, oil palm fruit, sugar cane, rice, plantains, maize, cashew nuts, rubber
foodstuffs, beverages; wood products, oil refining, gold mining, truck and bus assembly, textiles, fertilizer, building materials, electricity
4.2% (2017 est.)
8.747 million (2017 est.)
agriculture: 68% (2007 est.)
9.4% (2013 est.)
39.5% (2018 est.)
41.5 (2015 est.)
36.7 (1995)
lowest 10%: 2.2%
highest 10%: 31.8% (2008)
revenues: 7.749 billion (2017 est.)
expenditures: 9.464 billion (2017 est.)
19.1% (of GDP) (2017 est.)
-4.2% (of GDP) (2017 est.)
47% of GDP (2017 est.)
47% of GDP (2016 est.)
calendar year
-$1.86 billion (2017 est.)
-$414 million (2016 est.)
$16.326 billion (2018 est.)
$16.274 billion (2017 est.)
Netherlands 10%, United States 6%, France 6%, Spain 5%, Malaysia 5%, Switzerland 5%, Germany 5%, Vietnam 5% (2019)
cocoa beans, gold, rubber, refined petroleum, crude petroleum (2019)
$14.248 billion (2018 est.)
$13.486 billion (2017 est.)
China 18%, Nigeria 13%, France 11% (2019)
crude petroleum, rice, frozen fish, refined petroleum, packaged medicines (2019)
$6.257 billion (31 December 2017 est.)
$4.935 billion (31 December 2016 est.)
$13.07 billion (31 December 2017 est.)
$11.02 billion (31 December 2016 est.)
Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (XOF) per US dollar -
594.3 (2017 est.)
593.01 (2016 est.)
593.01 (2015 est.)
591.45 (2014 est.)
494.42 (2013 est.)
NOTE: The information regarding Cote d'Ivoire on this page is re-published from the 2021 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Cote d'Ivoire 2021 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Cote d'Ivoire 2021 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.
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