- ISO 3166
CI- Main language + region
fr-CI- Currency
- XOF · West African CFA Franc
- Region
- EMEA · SSA
Côte d’Ivoire
Côte d’Ivoire has 30M people, and 12.4M of them are online. French is the most widely spoken language at 34%, one of 6 languages CLDR lists here. French is official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to fr-CI.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
12.4M
0%world median 81%100%
41% of 30M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$3,050
Higher than 24% of 213 territories
GDP per capita in current US dollars, World Bank Open Data, most recent reported year. A rough guide to spending power, not revenue.
Can pay online
58%
0%world median 71%100%
Adults aged 15 and over holding a bank or mobile-money account, World Bank Global Findex 2024. Below half means a card-only checkout excludes most of the market.
Languages
6
French 34% · Baoulé 11% · Cebaara Senoufo 4.3%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 1 of them is official nationally.
English proficiency
393
Very lowVery high
Very low proficiency on the EF EPI 2025 scale. The sample is self-selected online test takers. It never enters any score on this site.
Adult literacy
57%
0%world median 95%100%
Share of adults who can read, as recorded in CLDR territory data. Low literacy shifts a product toward icons, audio, and video before another language.
What people speak
Shares include second languages, so totals can exceed 100%.
Most spoken in Côte d’Ivoire
share of 30M people
- Frenchofficial34%10.2M
- Baoulé11%3.3M
- Cebaara Senoufo4.3%1.3M
- Dan4%1.2M
- Koro0.3%69K
- Koro Wachi0.2%51K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%.
CLDR records French in 64 territories and 333M speakers in total; Côte d’Ivoire holds 3% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The French profile maps the whole footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (fr-CI).
Plural categories
3
Word-forms a translator writes for counted text, like English's "1 item" and "2 items".
Script family
Latin
Default system fonts cover this script on all major platforms.
Reading direction
Left-to-right
Standard. Use dir='auto' on user-generated content fields.
Date
21 avril 2026
Short: 21/04/2026
Time
18:30
Week starts Mon
Currency
1 235 F CFA
1,234.56 in XOF · West African CFA Franc