Distillers Country guides / Côte d'Ivoire
Côte d'Ivoire
A one-page guide to Côte d'Ivoire for the spirits trade: the country, its people, its economy and how it drinks.
At a glance
- Capital
- Yamoussoukro (political); Abidjan (economic capital, largest city)
- Official languages
- French
- Currency
- West African CFA franc (XOF)
- Time zone
- UTC+0
- Area
- 322,460 km²
People
- Population
- 32.7 million (2025)
- Population growth
- 2.4% a year
- Living in towns and cities
- 54.5%
- Aged under 15
- 40.5%
- Aged 65 and over
- 2.7%
- Life expectancy
- 62.1 years
Economy
- GDP
- US$99.8 billion (2025)
- GDP per person
- US$3,050 (2025)
- Economic growth
- 6.5% (2025)
- Inflation
- 0.13% (2025)
Alcohol
- Alcohol is
- Legal
- Alcohol per adult a year
- 2.85 litres of pure alcohol (2020)
- What people drink
- Beer 34%, wine 15%, spirits 51% (2022)
Sources: World Bank (population, economy and demographics), WHO Global Health Observatory (alcohol per adult and drinking mix); Wikipedia: Ivory_Coast; World Bank Open Data API (population, area, GDP, growth, inflation); Our World in Data / WHO GHO alcohol per capita; Wikipedia: Legal drinking age; Euromonitor: Spirits in Côte d'Ivoire (Aug 2026, listing). Figures are the latest each source publishes; the year is shown beside each one.