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Economic indicators

	2015	2020	2024
GDP: Gross domestic product (million current US$)	45 780	62 983	70 019^b
GDP growth rate (annual %, const. 2015 prices)	14.9	1.7	6.7^b
GDP per capita (current US$)	1 940.1	2 349.1	2 486.4^b
Economy: Agriculture (% of Gross Value Added)	19.8	20.3	17.8^b
Economy: Industry (% of Gross Value Added)	21.7	23	24.2^b
Economy: Services and other activity (% of GVA)	58.4	56.7	58^b
Employment in agriculture^g (% of employed)	43.5	46.2	45.6^b
Employment in industry^g (% of employed)	12.1	10.5	10.5^b
Employment in services^g (% employed)	44.5	43.3	44^b
Unemployment^g (% of labour force)	2.5	2.6	2.4
Labour force participation rate^g (female/male pop. %)	54.7 / 74.6	55.7 / 72.2	56.5 / 72.2
CPI: Consumer Price Index^g,h (2010=100)	111	114	131^f
Agricultural production index (2014-2016=100)	104	125	132^b
International trade: exports (million current US$)	12 560	12 454	8 930^g,f
International trade: imports (million current US$)	10 406	10 527	19 683^g,f
International trade: balance (million current US$)	2 154	1 927	- 10 754^g,f
Balance of payments, current account (million US$)	-201	- 1 974	- 5 394^b

Social indicators

	2015	2020	2024
Population growth rate (average annual %)	2.9	2.5	2.4^a
Urban population (% of total population)	49.4	51.2ⁱ	...
Urban population growth rate (average annual %)	3.4^j	...	...
Fertility rate, total (live births per woman)	5	4.5	4.2^a
Life expectancy at birth (females/males, years)	60.0 / 56.7	62.3 / 58.2	64.3 / 60.2^a
Population age distribution^k (0-14/60+ years old, %)	42.2 / 4.0	42.2 / 4.1	40.9 / 4.3^a
International migrant stock (000/% of total pop.)	2 470.6 / 10.6^l,m	2 564.9 / 9.7^l,m	... / ...
Refugees and others of concern to UNHCR (000)	726.8	957.7	952.4^f
Under five mortality rate (per 1000 live births)	86.7	73.8	66.3^a
Health: Current expenditureⁿ (% of GDP)	3.2	3.6	3.1^o
Health: Physicians (per 1 000 pop.)	0.2^p	0.2	0.2^b
Education: Government expenditure (% of GDP)	3.5^g	3.9	3.5^o
Education: Primary gross enrol. ratio (f/m per 100 pop.)	81.3 / 90.3	91.5 / 96.8	91.7 / 95.8^f
Education: Lowr. sec. gross enrol. ratio (f/m per 100 pop.)	43.7 / 58.9	63.6 / 72.7	65.0 / 70.0^b
Education: Upr. Sec. gross enrol. ratio (f/m per 100 pop.)	21.8 / 31.9	30.4 / 39.2	33.5 / 40.3^b
Seats held by women in national parliaments (%)	9.2	12^q	13.4^q

Environment and infrastructure indicators

	2015	2020	2024
Individuals using the Internet (per 100 inhabitants)	38.4	36^g,r	38.4^r,b
Research & Development expenditure (% of GDP)	...	0.1^s,t,u	...
Threatened species (number)	226	280	335^f
Forested area (% of land area)	10.7	8.9	8.6^o
CO2 emission estimates (million tons/tons per capita)	9.5 / 0.4	11.0 / 0.4	13.8 / 0.5^o
Energy production, primary (Petajoules)	395	423	474^o
Energy supply per capita (Gigajoules)	17	17	20^o
Tourist/visitor arrivals at national borders (000)	1 441^v,w	668	2 047^b
Important sites for terrestrial biodiversity protected (%)	73.8	73.8	73.8^f
Pop. using safely managed drinking water (urban/rural, %)	46.0 / 24.3	59.0 / 27.2	58.8 / 27.3^b
Pop. using safely managed sanitation (urban/rural, %)	19.0 / 10.8	19.8 / 13.3	20.1 / 14.1^b
Net Official Development Assist. received (% of GNI)	1.46	2.63	2.33^o

Footnotes

a		Projected estimate (medium fertility variant).
b		2022
c		Yamoussoukro is the capital and Abidjan is the administrative capital.
d		African Financial Community (CFA) Franc, Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO).
e		2018
f		2023
g		Estimate.
h		Abidjan
i		2019
j		Data refers to a 5-year period preceding the reference year.
k		Calculated by the UN Statistics Division.
l		Including refugees.
m		Refers to foreign citizens.
n		Data based on calendar year (January 1 to December 31).
o		2021
p		2014
q		Data are as at 1 January of reporting year.
r		Population aged 5 years and over.
s		Excluding business enterprise.
t		Partial data.
u		2016
v		Break in the time series.
w		Figures include arrivals by land (road and railway).