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Ivory Coast
Index
Côte d'Ivoire's first national census in 1975 counted
6.7
million inhabitants, allowing 1987 estimates of 10.6
million. The
1987 annual growth rate was 4.1 percent. Regional
variations were
marked, with annual growth of only 1 percent in the far
north, but
throughout the country, population growth rates, which
included
high net immigration rates, were increasing. In the late
1980s,
population projections for the year 2000 exceeded 20
million
people.
Country-wide, life expectancy rose from thirty-nine to
fiftyone years between 1960 and 1988, and during the same
period, the
average annual birth rate also increased steadily to 45.9
per 1,000
population. Fertility rates were about average for West
Africa at
6.6 births per adult female. Fertility rates were lowest
in Abidjan
and highest in rural areas, where infant mortality also
remained
relatively high.
Mortality rates overall declined sharply after 1960,
when onethird of all infants died before the age of five. Infant
mortality
in the first year of life declined to 110 deaths per 1,000
births
in the late 1980s. The crude death rate was just over 14
per 1,000
population.
Data as of November 1988
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