Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)

    Religious Affiliation
    Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
    Total Population
    24,905,843 1
    Urban
    50.80% 1
    Rural
    49.20% 1
    Immigrants as % of Population
    9.6% 2
    Homicides
    11.84 per 100,000 people (global median 6.9) 3
    Level of Public Corruption
    108 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
    Gender Equality in the Economy, Health, Education and Politics
    136 (1=most equal, 144=least equal) 7
    Fertility Rate
    4.94 births per adult woman 5
    Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
    9.30% 5
    Life Expectancy at Birth
    52 years 5
    Adult Literacy Rate
    40.98% 5
    Internet Users
    15% 5
    Gross National Income per Capita
    US$1,450 5
    Population Living Below US$1.90 per Day
    29.0% 5

    These statistics are derived from the Vatican's official publication, Statistical Yearbook of the Church 2020 (Vatican City: Librera Editrice Vaticana, 2022). The numbers may differ from data reported by other sources on this site.

    Baptized Catholics
    7,518,000
    Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
    28.42
    Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
    18,116
    Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
    45,745
    First Communions per Year
    24,013
    Confirmations per Year
    34,458
    Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
    75,273
    Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
    35,029
    Students Enrolled in Catholic Higher Education
    3,203
    Church Marriages per Year
    8,015
    Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
    6,639
    Priests
    1,956
    Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
    971
    Catholics per Priest
    3,843
    Parishes
    604
    Mission Stations (no resident priests)
    1,054
    Catholic Hospitals
    17
    Homes for Aged, Handicapped, Invalids
    5
    • 1 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2018). World Urbanization Prospects: The 2018 Revision, Online Edition.
    • 2 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Trends in International Migrant Stock: The 2015 revision.
    • 3 United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, Homicide Statistics 2015.
    • 4 Transparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index 2016.
    • 5 UNICEF, State of the World's Children, 2016.
    • 6 Statistical Yearbook of the Church 2020 (Vatican City: Librera Editrice Vaticana, 2022).
    • 7 World Economic Forum, The Global Gender Gap Report, 2016.