Ivory Coast
Republic of Côte d'Ivoire
- Region
- Africa · Western Africa
- Capital
- Yamoussoukro
- Population
- 32,711,547 (2025)
- Government
- presidential republic
- Currency
- West African CFA franc (XOF)
- Official languages
- French
- Spoken languages
- French (official), 60 native dialects of which Dioula is the most widely spoken
- Written scripts
- Latin
- Area
- 322,463 km²
- Coastline
- Coastal
- UN member
- Yes
- Affiliations
- African Union, ECOWAS, IMF, OIC, WCO, WTO
- Borders
- Burkina Faso , Ghana , Guinea , Liberia , Mali
Political stability
51 / 100
Economic stability
47 / 100
Population stability
52 / 100
0–100, higher is more stable. Political: World Bank governance score. Economic: government effectiveness, regulatory quality, and inflation proximity to 2% (World Bank). Population: stability of growth and net migration rates (World Bank).
Trade profile
- Key exports
- gold, cocoa beans, rubber, refined petroleum, coconuts/brazil nuts/cashews (2023)
- Key imports
- crude petroleum, ships, refined petroleum, fish, rice (2023)
- Natural resources
- petroleum, natural gas, diamonds, manganese, iron ore, cobalt, bauxite, copper, gold, nickel, tantalum, silica sand
- Primary route
- Gulf of Guinea ports (Lagos, Tema, Abidjan) to Europe
- Secondary route
- South Atlantic services to Asia via the Cape of Good Hope
The xin.bz view
- Côte d’Ivoire’s main cocoa crop (~1.4–1.45M t through February) is arriving late, concentrating up to ~900,000 t into the October–December window just as EU deforestation traceability rules bite — pressure lands on Abidjan, San Pedro, warehouses, and documentation before it reaches supply.
xin.bz coverage
El Niño Is Splitting Africa's Water Map — Just as the World Turns to the Continent for Food, Fertilizer, Fuel and Critical Minerals
A wetter Horn and a drier south, Southern Africa's grain and Kariba buffers, cocoa's port squeeze, Moroccan phosphate and Nigerian fuel as global substitutes, and the corridors that turn African resources into accessible supply.
Africa Is Building a Continental Trade System in Real Time: AfCFTA Moves From Treaty to Customs Gates, Payment Rails and Freight Corridors
AfCFTA's implementation era in 2026 — customs modernization, PAPSS payment expansion, the Abidjan-Lagos and Lobito corridors, and the regional manufacturing buildout reshaping intra-African trade.
Trade research
- WTO trade profile — tariffs, trade in goods and services, top partners
- World Bank country data — GDP, trade share of GDP, logistics indicators
- OEC trade profile — export/import composition and partners, visualized
- ITC Trade Map — detailed trade statistics by product (ITC/UN Comtrade)
- CIA World Factbook — geography, economy, transportation infrastructure
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Sources: mledoze/countries (ODbL), CIA World Factbook (public domain), World Bank Open Data (CC BY-4.0), flag-icons (MIT). Stability scores are xin.bz composites of the cited World Bank indicators; routes and commodity notes are xin.bz assessments. Informational only — verify with official sources.