Côte d'Ivoire Population

Ivory Coast has high fertility and has also long drawn migrants from poorer neighbours to work in its cocoa-driven economy, giving it a large share of foreign-origin residents. The combination produces rapid population growth and a youthful age structure. Managing both natural increase and immigration is central to its social and political life.

Côte d'Ivoire is home to about 33.1 million people in 2026, the 50th largest population of any country. Set in Western Africa, its demographic path this century turns on the balance of births, deaths and migration. It packs in roughly 105 people per square kilometre.

Growth continues for Côte d'Ivoire until around 2100, the year its population is set to crest at about 104 million. From there a slow fall takes it to roughly 104 million by century's end. The 100 million threshold is reached around 2096.

The median age is set to climb from about 18 today to roughly 31 by 2100, even as life expectancy improves from about 62 years. For now it remains one of the world's youngest populations, with a large generation about to reach working age. That ageing slowly changes everything from the size of the workforce to the cost of care and pensions.

With about 4.23 births per woman, Côte d'Ivoire still has one of the higher fertility rates in the world, driving fast expansion.

Read these numbers as the midpoint of a range. Under the UN's high and low fertility paths Côte d'Ivoire's 2100 population could land well above or below the figures here; the medium variant is simply the central case.