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{{Infobox Country
|Box title = Country summary
|Row 1 title = Capital
|Row 1 info = Yamoussoukro
|Row 2 title = Borders
|Row 2 info = [[Burkina Faso]] 584 km, [[Ghana]] 668 km, [[Guinea]] 610 km, [[Liberia]] 716 km, [[Mali]] 532 km
|Row 3 title = Government type
|Row 3 info = republic; multiparty presidential regime established 1960
|Row 4 title = Population
|Row 4 info = 20,617,068<ref name="CIA_CI">CIA - The World Factbook. [https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/countrytemplate_iv.html "Cote d'Ivoire"], from The World Factbook. Referenced 2010-10-01.</ref>
|Row 5 title = Population growth
|Row 5 info = 2.133% (2010 est.)<ref name="CIA_CI" />
|Row 6 title = Life expectancy
|Row 6 info = 55.45 years<ref name="CIA_CI" />
|Row 7 title = Unemployment
|Row 7 info = NA<ref name="CIA_CI" />
|Row 8 title = [[Wikipedia:Index of Economic Freedom|Index of Economic Freedom]]
|Row 8 info = 123<ref name="Heritage_CI">Heritage Foundation. [http://www.heritage.org/Index/Country/CoteDiviore "Cote d'Ivoire"], Economic Freedom Score. A lower ranking is better; but please be careful when comparing between different countries or years. Referenced 2010-10-01.</ref>
|Row 9 title = [[Wikipedia:Corruption Perceptions Index|Corruption Perceptions Index]]
|Row 9 info = 154<ref name="Transparency_CI">Transparency International. [http://www.transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/cpi/2009/cpi_2009_table "Cote d'Ivoire"], Corruption Perceptions Index 2009. A lower ranking is better; but please note that the numbers cannot be compared between countries or years due to different methodology. Referenced 2010-10-01.</ref>
|Row 10 title = [[Wikipedia:Doing Business Report|Doing Business ranking]]
|Row 10 info = 168<ref name="Business_CI">Doing Business. [http://www.doingbusiness.org/economyrankings/ "Cote d'Ivoire"], Doing Business 2010 (part of The World Bank Group). A lower ranking is better; but please be careful when comparing between different countries or years. Referenced 2010-10-01.</ref>
}}

Close ties to France since independence in 1960, the development of cocoa production for export, and foreign investment made '''Cote d'Ivoire''' (or "Ivory Coast") one of the most prosperous of the West African states, but did not protect it from political turmoil. In December 1999, a military coup - the first ever in Cote d'Ivoire's history - overthrew the government. Junta leader Robert GUEI blatantly rigged elections held in late 2000 and declared himself the winner. Popular protest forced him to step aside and brought Laurent GBAGBO into power. Ivorian dissidents and disaffected members of the military launched a failed coup attempt in September 2002. Rebel forces claimed the northern half of the country, and in January 2003 were granted ministerial positions in a unity government under the auspices of the Linas-Marcoussis Peace Accord. President GBAGBO and rebel forces resumed implementation of the peace accord in December 2003 after a three-month stalemate, but issues that sparked the civil war, such as land reform and grounds for citizenship, remained unresolved. In March 2007 President GBAGBO and former New Force rebel leader Guillaume SORO signed the Ouagadougou Political Agreement. As a result of the agreement, SORO joined GBAGBO's government as Prime Minister and the two agreed to reunite the country by dismantling the zone of confidence separating North from South, integrate rebel forces into the national armed forces, and hold elections. Disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration of rebel forces have been problematic as rebels seek to enter the armed forces. Citizen identification and voter registration pose election difficulties, and balloting planned for November 2009 was postponed with no future date set. Several thousand UN troops and several hundred French remain in Cote d'Ivoire to help the parties implement their commitments and to support the peace process.<ref name="CIA_CI" />

==Economical characteristics==
* '''Currency''': West African CFA franc (ISO code: XOF)
* This country does not seem to have a central bank.
* Central bank '''[[Wikipedia:Discount rate|discount rate]]''': 4.75% (31 December 2008)<ref name="CIA_CI" />
* Commercial banks '''lending rate''': NA%<ref name="CIA_CI" />
* '''Stock of money''' ([[Money supply#M1|M1]]): $4.242 billion (31 December 2008)<ref name="CIA_CI" />
* '''Quasi money''' (with M1 makes [[Money supply#M2|M2]]): $2.117 billion (31 December 2008)<ref name="CIA_CI" />

===Notable events:===
* [[Banking crisis]]: 1988-1991<ref name="Reinhart_crisis">Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff. [http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8973.html "This Time is Different"], ''Princeton University Press'', ISBN 978-0-691-14216-6, p. 358. (The list does not claim to be complete.) Referenced 2011-07-19.</ref>
* [[Public default]]: 1983-1998, 2000-2009 (external)
* Years in [[inflation]]:  6% (share of years 1960-2009 with annual inflation above 20 per cent per annum)<ref name="Reinhart_histories">Carmen M. Reinhart. [http://www.princeton.edu/economics/seminar-schedule-by-prog/macro-s10/papers/Reinhardt-Chartbook.pdf "This Time is Different Chartbook: Country Histories on Debt, Default, and Financial Crises"] (pdf), March 3, 2010, p. 39. (The list does not claim to be complete.) Referenced 2011-07-19.</ref>

===Statistics===
{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" style="text-align:center"
| Statistic / Year
! 1999
! 2000
! 2001
! 2002
! 2003
! 2004
! 2005
! 2006
! 2007
! 2008
|-
! [[GDP]] (million USD)<ref name="WorldBank_GDP_CI">World Bank. [http://open.worldbank.org/countries/ci/indicators%5BNY.GDP.MKTP.CD%5D?date=1999:2009 "Cote d'Ivoire: GDP"], from World Bank [http://data.worldbank.org/ Data]. Referenced 2010-10-01.</ref>
| 12 556
| 10 417
| 10 545
| 11 487
| 13 737
| 15 481
| 16 363
| 17 367
| 19 796
| 23 414
|-
! Govt. debt (% of GDP)<ref name="WorldBank_Debt_CI">World Bank. [http://open.worldbank.org/countries/ci/indicators%5BGC.DOD.TOTL.GD.ZS%5D?date=1999:2009 "Cote d'Ivoire: government debt"], from World Bank [http://data.worldbank.org/ Data]. Referenced 2010-10-01.</ref>
| 
| 
| 
| 
| 93.726
| 96.369
| 
| 
| 
| 
|-
! Govt. revenue (% of GDP)<ref name="WorldBank_Revenue_CI">World Bank. [http://open.worldbank.org/countries/ci/indicators%5BGC.REV.XGRT.GD.ZS%5D?date=1999:2009 "Cote d'Ivoire: government revenue"], from World Bank [http://data.worldbank.org/ Data]. Referenced 2010-10-01.</ref>
| 
| 
| 
| 
| 16.933
| 17.590
| 12.051
| 17.625
| 19.157
| 18.853
|-
! Govt. expenses (% of GDP)<ref name="WorldBank_Expenses_CI">World Bank. [http://open.worldbank.org/countries/ci/indicators%5BGC.XPN.TOTL.GD.ZS%5D?date=1999:2009 "Cote d'Ivoire: government expenses"], from World Bank [http://data.worldbank.org/ Data]. Referenced 2010-10-01.</ref>
| 
| 
| 
| 
| 17.364
| 17.022
| 16.888
| 16.228
| 17.565
| 17.926
|-
! Debt to revenue (years)
| 
| 
| 
| 
| 5.535
| 5.479
| 
| 
| 
| 
|}

==References==
<small>Note: statistical data was rounded. Different sources may use different methodologies for their estimates. Debt to revenue is calculated by dividing the two variables from their original ('unrounded') values. It represents how long it would a government take to repay its entire debt if it used its whole revenue for this purpose.</small>
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==Links==
* [[Wikipedia:Cote d'Ivoire|Cote d'Ivoire]] on Wikipedia
* [http://www.enterprisesurveys.org/documents/EnterpriseSurveys/Reports/Côte_dIvoire-2009.pdf Country profile] (pdf) from the Enterprise Studies page (part of the The World Bank Group)
* BBC [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/country_profiles/1043014.stm country profile]
* [http://www.bceao.int/ Central bank] of Cote d'Ivoire
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8446994.stm Ivorian tax-free rebel city flourishes] by John James, January 2010
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