World population/Cote d'Ivoire
Africa
Population of Cote d'Ivoire
33,494,339
Growing by 0.02 people every second
#50
world rank
0.40%
of world population
+2.35%
yearly change
+786,788
people this year
1,028,953
births a year
251,623
deaths a year
How the figure for Cote d'Ivoire is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Cote d'Ivoire at 33,494,339 on 1 July 2026, and projects 34,281,127 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.02 people added every second.
That places Cote d'Ivoire at number 50 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.40 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 58 entries in Africa.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 1,028,953 births and 251,623 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.
Other countries in Africa
Ranked by population.