Names: conventional long form: Republic of Cote d'Ivoire conventional short form: Cote d'Ivoire local long form: Republique de Cote d'Ivoire local short form: Cote d'Ivoire former: Ivory Coast

Capital City: Yamoussoukro

Population: 17,654,843 note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2006 est.)

GDP Per Capita: $1,600 (2006 est.)

Currency: Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (XOF); note - responsible authority is the Central Bank of the West African States

Languages: French (official), 60 native dialects with Dioula the most widely spoken

Total Area: total: 322,460 sq km land: 318,000 sq km water: 4,460 sq km slightly larger than New Mexico

Region: Africa

Industries: foodstuffs, beverages; wood products, oil refining, truck and bus assembly, textiles, fertilizer, building materials, electricity, ship construction and repair

Agriculture: coffee, cocoa beans, bananas, palm kernels, corn, rice, manioc (tapioca), sweet potatoes, sugar, cotton, rubber; timber

Resources: petroleum, natural gas, diamonds, manganese, iron ore, cobalt, bauxite, copper, gold, nickel, tantalum, silica sand, clay, cocoa beans, coffee, palm oil, hydropower

Labor Force: 6.738 million (68% agricultural) (2006 est.)

Exports: $7.832 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)
cocoa, coffee, timber, petroleum, cotton, bananas, pineapples, palm oil, fish

Imports: $5.548 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)
fuel, capital equipment, foodstuffs

Overview: Cote d'Ivoire is among the world's largest producers and exporters of coffee, cocoa beans, and palm oil. Consequently, the economy is highly sensitive to fluctuations in international prices for these products and weather conditions. Despite government attempts to diversify the economy, it is still heavily dependent on agriculture and related activities, engaging roughly 68% of the population. Growth was negative in 2000-03 because of the difficulty of meeting the conditions of international donors, continued low prices of key exports, foreign divestment and civil war. Political turmoil has continued to damage the economy since 2004, with a rising risk premium associated with doing business in the country, foreign investment shriveling, transportation costs increasing, French businesses fleeing, and criminal elements that traffic in weapons and diamonds gaining ground. The government will continue to survive financially off of the sale of cocoa, which represents 90% of foreign exchange earnings, but the government will probably lose between 10% and 20% of its cocoa harvest to northern rebels who smuggle the cocoa they control to neighboring countries where cocoa prices are higher. The government remains hopeful that ongoing exploration of Cote d'Ivoire's offshore oil reserves will result in significant production that could boost daily crude output from roughly 33,000 barrels per day (b/d) to more than 200,000 b/d by the end of the decade.

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In 2007 Missouri exported $1,112,796 in goods to Cote D'ivoire. This ranks Cote D'ivoire 148^th among the 223 international buyers of Missouri goods. Missouri exports to Cote D'ivoire increased from the previous year by $243,602 a change of 28.03%. State exports to Cote D'ivoire have increased over the last 5 years by $1,021,461 a change of 1118.37%. Missouri exports account for .01%. of all 2007 US exports to Cote D'ivoire.