CIV · Sub-Saharan Africa

Cote d'Ivoire

32,711,547

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+777.32K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+84.8%from 17.7M
Life expectancy62.1 years2024
Fertility rate4.23births per woman · 2024
Urban population54.5%2025
RegionSub-Saharan Africa Lower middle income

A country at every age

How Cote d'Ivoire is shaped by age.

A younger population means schools, jobs, and future families will shape the decades ahead.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1440.5%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6456.9%Working-age population
Ages 65+2.7%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate31.6births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate7.6deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+24.0births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration+11.31Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Cote d'Ivoire look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 55.75M in 2050—74.6% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 202431.93M
  2. 205055.75M
  3. 2100104.04M
Median age in 205022.6years
Births in 20501.41Mduring the year
Deaths in 2050413.1Kduring the year
Life expectancy65.9years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 19603.67M
  2. 19705.41M
  3. 19808.22M
  4. 199012.19M
  5. 200017.7M
  6. 201022.49M
  7. 202028.92M
  8. 202532.71M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/22/2026

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