The 2004 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency

(2003 est.)

      Investment (gross fixed):

       8.7% of GDP (2003)

      Population below poverty line:

       37% (1995)

      Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 3.1% highest 10%: 28.8% (1995)

      Distribution of family income - Gini index:

       36.7 (1995)

      Inflation rate (consumer prices):

       3.4% (2003 est.)

      Labor force:

       6.64 million 68% agricultural (2003)

      Unemployment rate:

       13% in urban areas (1998)

      Budget:

       revenues: $2.339 billion

       expenditures: $2.749 billion, including capital expenditures of $420

       million (2003 est.)

      Public debt:

       82.5% of GDP (2003)

      Agriculture - products:

       coffee, cocoa beans, bananas, palm kernels, corn, rice, manioc

       (tapioca), sweet potatoes, sugar, cotton, rubber; timber

      Industries:

       foodstuffs, beverages; wood products, oil refining, truck and bus

       assembly, textiles, fertilizer, building materials, electricity

      Industrial production growth rate:

       15% (1998 est.)

      Electricity - production:

       4.605 billion kWh (2001)

      Electricity - consumption:

       2.983 billion kWh (2001)

      Electricity - exports:

       1.3 billion kWh (2001)

      Electricity - imports:

       0 kWh (2001)

      Oil - production:

       11,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)

      Oil - consumption:

       32,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)

      Oil - exports:

       NA (2001)

      Oil - imports:

       NA (2001)

      Oil - proved reserves:

       50 million bbl (1 January 2002)

      Natural gas - production:

       1.35 billion cu m (2001 est.)

      Natural gas - consumption:

       1.35 billion cu m (2001 est.)

      Natural gas - exports:

       0 cu m (2001 est.)

      Natural gas - imports:

       0 cu m (2001 est.)

      Natural gas - proved reserves:

       14.87 billion cu m (1 January 2002)

      Current account balance:

       $501 million (2003)

      Exports:

       $5.299 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.)

      Exports - commodities:

       cocoa, coffee, timber, petroleum, cotton, bananas, pineapples, palm

       oil, fish

      Exports - partners:

       France 19.1%, Netherlands 17.7%, US 7.1%, Spain 5.6% (2003)

      Imports:

       $2.781 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.)

      Imports - commodities:

       fuel, capital equipment, foodstuffs

      Imports - partners:

       France 32.7%, Nigeria 14.4%, UK 7% (2003)

      Reserves of foreign exchange & gold:

       $2.005 billion (2003)

      Debt - external:

       $11.85 billion (2003 est.)

      Economic aid - recipient:

       ODA, $1 billion (1996 est.)

      Currency:

       Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (XOF); note - responsible

       authority is the Central Bank of the West African States

      Currency code:

       XOF

      Exchange rates:

       Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (XOF) per US dollar - 581.2

       (2003), 696.988 (2002), 733.039 (2001), 711.976 (2000), 615.699

       (1999)

      Fiscal year:

       calendar year

      Communications Cote d'Ivoire

      Telephones - main lines in use:

       328,000 (2003)

      Telephones - mobile cellular:

       1.236 million (2003)

      Telephone system:

       general assessment: well developed by African standards but

       operating well below capacity

       domestic: open-wire lines and microwave radio relay; 90% digitalized

       international: country code - 225; satellite earth stations - 2

       Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean); 2 submarine cables

       (June 1999)

      Radio broadcast stations:

       AM 2, FM 9, shortwave 3 (1998)

      Radios:

       2.26 million (1997)

      Television broadcast stations:

       14 (1999)

      Televisions:

       1.09 million (2000)

      Internet country code:

       .ci

      Internet hosts:

       3,795 (2004)

      Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

       5 (2001)

      Internet users:

       90,000 (2002)

      Transportation Cote d'Ivoire

      Railways:

       total: 660 km

       narrow gauge: 660 km 1.000-meter gauge

       note: an additional 622 km of this railroad extends into Burkina

       Faso (2003)

      Highways: total: 50,400 km paved: 4,889 km unpaved: 45,511 km (1999 est.)

      Waterways:

       980 km (navigable rivers, canals, and numerous coastal lagoons)

       (2003)

      Pipelines:

       condensate 107 km; gas 223 km; oil 104 km (2004)

      Ports and harbors:

       Abidjan, Aboisso, Dabou, San-Pedro

      Airports:

       37 (2003 est.)

      Airports - with paved runways:

       total: 7

       over 3,047 m: 1

       2,438 to 3,047 m: 2

       1,524 to 2,437 m: 4 (2004 est.)

      Airports - with unpaved runways:

       total: 30