- Capital: Yamoussoukro
- POPULATION: 17.655 Million
- LANGUAGES: French(official)
- Median age: 19
- Birth Rate per 1000 people: 35.11
- Death Rate per 1000 people: 14.84
- Life expectancy: 48.82
- Literacy(definition: age 15 and over can read and write)
  total population: 50.9%
  male: 57.9%
  female: 43.6% (2003 est.)
- Independence: 7 August 1960 (from France)
- GDP per capita: $1,500

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