Economy — Ivory Coast
GDP, employment, industries, public finance, and currency.
Profile updated 2026-06-02
⚡ Economy at a glance
GDP, employment, industries, public finance, and currency. Key figure for Ivory Coast: For the last 5 years Cote d'Ivoire's growth rate has been among the highest in the world. Cote d'Ivoire is heavily dependent on agriculture and related activities, which engage roughly two-thirds of the population. Cote d'Ivoire is the world's largest producer and exporter of cocoa beans and a significant produ…
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Economic overview
- Economic Overview
For the last 5 years Cote d'Ivoire's growth rate has been among the highest in the world.
Cote d'Ivoire is heavily dependent on agriculture and related activities, which engage roughly two-thirds of the population.
Cote d'Ivoire is the world's largest producer and exporter of cocoa beans and a significant producer and exporter of coffee and palm oil.
Consequently, the economy is highly sensitive to fluctuations in international prices for these products and to climatic conditions.
Cocoa, oil, and coffee are the country's top export revenue earners, but the country has targeted agricultural processing of cocoa, cashews, mangoes, and other commodities as a high priority.
Mining gold and exporting electricity are growing industries outside agriculture.
Following the end of more than a decade of civil conflict in 2011, Cote d’Ivoire has experienced a boom in foreign investment and economic growth.
In June 2012, the IMF and the World Bank announced $4.4 billion in debt relief for Cote d'Ivoire under the Highly Indebted Poor Countries Initiative.
- Industries
Foodstuffs, beverages; wood products, oil refining, gold mining, truck and bus assembly, textiles, fertilizer, building materials, electricity
- GDP - per capita (PPP)
$3,600.00 (USD)
- GDP - real growth rate
8%
GDP & growth
- GDP - Gross Domestic Product (PPP)
$136,480,000,000 (USD)
- GDP Per Capita
$3,600.00 (USD)
- GDP - real growth rate
8%
- GDP - official exchange rate
$34,650,000,000 (USD)
- GDP - composition, by end use
- Household consumption: 66%
- Government consumption: 15.2%
- Investment in fixed capital: 16.9%
- Investment in inventories: 0.8%
- Exports of goods and services: 43.3%
- Imports of goods and services: -42.2%
- GDP by Sector- agriculture
17.6%
- GDP by Sector- Industry
19.5%
- GDP by Sector- services
62.8%
- Industrial Growth Rate
8.5%
Prices & money
- Inflation Rate
1.2%
- Exchange Rate per US Dollar
604.4
- Currency Name and Code
Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (XOF)
- Fiscal Year
Calendar year
- Commercial Bank Prime Lending Rate
2.5%
Employment & labor
- Labor Force
8,543,000
- Major Industries
Foodstuffs, beverages; wood products, oil refining, gold mining, truck and bus assembly, textiles, fertilizer, building materials, electricity
- Agriculture Products
Coffee, cocoa beans, bananas, palm kernels, corn, rice, cassava (manioc, tapioca), sweet potatoes, sugar, cotton, rubber; timber
- Population Below Poverty Line
42%
- Child Labor - # of children ages 5-14
1,796,802
- Child Labor - % of children ages 5-14
35%
Public finance
- Annual Budget
$6,839,000,000 (USD)
- Public Debt (% of GDP)
50.9%
- Budget Surplus or Deficit - percent of GDP
-3.8%
- Taxes and other revenues - percent of GDP
19.7%