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COTE D'IVOIRE

COTE D'IVOIRERepublic 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:---------------------------- 20,617,068
• 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:--------------------------------- Pres. Alassane Ouattara
• Prime Minister:------------------------- Prime. Min 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