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COTE D'IVOIRE
Republic of Cote D'ivoire
GEOGRAPHY:
- Area:---------------------
322,460 sq.km : 124,503 sq mi
- Capital City:----------------------------- Yamoussoukro
- Largest
City:---------------------------------- Abidjan (pop. 2,793,000)
- Natural Resources---------- Diamonds,
Iron ore, cobalt, bauxite, copper, petroleum, manganese.
PEOPLE: - Population:----------------------------
15,446,231
- Capital city (Est. pop.):----------------- 120,000
- Literacy:------------------
40.1% of total population, (Males:49.9%, Females:30%)
- Official languages:------------------- French,
60 native dialects with Dioula the most widely spoken.
VITAL STATISTICS: - Birth Rate:----------------------
50/1000
- Death Rate:---------------------- 17.11 (per 1,000 population)
- Infant
Mortality Rate:------------- 99.7 (deaths per 1,000 live births)
- Fertility Rate:------------------
6.06 (per woman)
- Life Expectancy at Birth:--------------- total population:---44.81
(Males:43.63, Females:46.03)
GOVERNMENT:
- President:--------------------------------- LAURENT
GBAGBO
- Prime Minister:------------------------- GUILLAUME SORO
- Type
of Government:---------------------- Republic; multiparty presidential regine established 1960.
- Independence:-----------
Aug. 7 1960 (from France)
ECONOMY: - GDP:--------------------- purchasing power parity
- $23.9 billion (1996)
GDP Real Growth Rate:---- 6.5%
GDP per capita:--- $1,620
- Inflation
Rate:----------------- (consumer prices):---- 8% (1996)
- National Budget:
Revenues:--------- $1.9 billion
Expenditures:-------- $3.4 billion
- Extenal
Debt:----------------- $16.7 billion
- Currency:---------------- 1 communaute Financière Africaine
franc = 1 centimes
- Labor Force:----------------- NA
- Unemployment:-----------------
NA%
- Agriculture:------------------ Coffee, Cocoa beans, bananas, palm kernels, corn, rice, manioc,
sweet potatoes, sugar, cotton, rubber, timber
- Industries:-------------------- Foodstuffs, beverages;
wood products, oil refining, automobile assembly, textiles, fertilizer, construction materials, electricity
- Exports:----------------------
$3.7 billion commodities:---- Cocoa, coffee, tropical woods, petroleum, cotton, bananas, pineapples, palm oil;
fish
- Imports:--------------------- $2.4 billion commodities:---- Food, capital
gods, consumer goods, fuel
- Monitary unit:---------------------- Franc CFA
DEFENCE:
- Defence Expenditures: exchange rate conversion - $140 million, 1.4% of GDP
Geography:Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) is located in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea
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