According to the 2022 revision of the World Population Prospects[1][2] the total population was 27,478,249 in 2021, compared to only 2 630 000 in 1950. The proportion of children below the age of 15 in 2010 was 40.9%, 55.3% was between 15 and 65 years of age, while 3.8% was 65 years or older
.[3]
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Vital statistics
Registration of vital events in the Ivory Coast is not complete. The website Our World in Data prepared the following estimates based on statistics from the Population Department of the United Nations.[5]
Ivory Coast has more than 60 ethnic groups, usually classified into five principal divisions: Akan (east and center, including Lagoon peoples of the southeast), Krou (southwest), Southern Mandé (west), Northern Mandé (northwest), Sénoufo/Lobi (north center and northeast). The Baoulés, in the Akan division, probably comprise the largest single subgroup with 15%-20% of the population. They are based in the central region around Bouaké and Yamoussoukro. The Bétés in the Krou division, the Sénoufos in the north, and the Malinkés in the northwest and the cities are the next largest groups, with 10%-15% of the national population. Most of the principal divisions have a significant presence in neighboring countries.
The economic development and relative prosperity of Ivory Coast fostered huge demographic shifts during the 20th century. "In 1922, an estimated 100,000 out of 1.6 million (or 6 percent) of people in Côte d'Ivoire were Muslims. By contrast, at independence (in 1960), their share of the population had increased rapidly, and Muslims were moving southward to the cocoa-producing areas and the southern cities. By 1998, [...], Muslims constituted a majority in the north of the country, and approximately 38.6 percent of the total population. This was a significantly larger population than the next largest religious group, Christians, who constituted approximately 29.1 percent of the total."[15] In earlier decades, this shift was mainly due to large-scale immigration from neighboring countries of the interior, that has been going on since colonial times and continued to be promoted during the Houphouet-Boigny era. Since the 1990s, the widening conversion gap between different religious groups has started to tilt the demographic balance in favor of Christians.According to the last census of 2021 Muslims make up 42.5% of population (42.9% in 2014) and Christians 39.8% (33.9% in 2014).[16]
The table below shows the number of people born in Ivory Coast who have migrated to OECD countries only (the table only includes communities consisting of at least 1,000 members).[17]
urban population: 52.7% of total population (2022)
rate of urbanization: 3.38% annual rate of change (2020–25 est.)
urban population: 50.8% of total population (2018)
rate of urbanization: 3.38% annual rate of change (2015–20 est.)
Religions
Muslim 42.9%, Catholic 17.2%, Evangelical 11.8%, Methodist 1.7%, other Christian 3.2%, animist 3.6%, other religion 0.5%, none 19.1% (2014 est.)
Muslim 42.5%, Catholic 16.6%, Pentecostal 13.4%, Evangelical 6.8%, other Christian 3%, animist 2.2%, other religion 0.7%, none 12.6% (2021 census)
note: the majority of foreign migrant workers are Muslim (72.7%) and Christian (17.7%).
HIV/AIDS
adult prevalence rate: 2.8% (2017 est.)
people living with HIV/AIDS: 500,000 (2017 est.)
deaths: 24,000 (2017 est.)
Major infectious diseases
Degree of risk
very high
Food or Waterborne diseases
bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever
Water contact
schistosomiasis
Animal contact disease
rabies
Note: highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza has been identified in this country; it poses a negligible risk with extremely rare cases possible among US citizens who have close contact with birds (2009)
Nationality
Noun and adjective: Ivorian (Ivoirian)
Ethnic groups
other
2.8% (includes 130,000 Lebanese and 14,000 French) (1998)
Education expenditures
3.7% of GDP (2019) Country comparison to the world: 112nd
Literacy
definition: age 15 and over can read and write (2015 est.)
total population: 89.9%
male: 93.1%
female: 86.7% (2019)
total population: 47.2% (2018 est.)
male: 53.7% (2018 est.)
female: 40.5% (2018 est.)
School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)
total: 10 years
male: 11 years
female: 10 years (2019)
Unemployment, youth ages 15-24
total: 3.9% (2016 est.)
male: 2.8% (2016 est.)
female: 5.1% (2016 est.)
Major infectious diseases
degree of risk: very high (2020)
food or waterborne diseases: bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever
vectorborne diseases: malaria, dengue fever, and yellow fever
^Nordås, Ragnhild (2012). "The Devil in the Demography?". In Goldstone, Jack A.; Kaufmann, Eric P.; Toft, Monica Duffy (eds.). Political Demography. How Population Changes Are Reshaping International Security and National Politics. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 256.
^Nordås, Ragnhild (2012). "The Devil in the Demography?". In Goldstone, Jack A.; Kaufmann, Eric P.; Toft, Monica Duffy (eds.). Political Demography. How Population Changes Are Reshaping International Security and National Politics. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 257 f.
