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C-te d-Ivoire

C-te d-Ivoire

Ivory Coast or C?te d'Ivoire, officially the Republic of C?te d'Ivoire, is a country in West Africa.Ivory Coast has, for the region, a relatively high income per capita (USD 960 in 2007) and plays a key role in transit trade for neighboring, landlocked countries. The country is the largest economy in the West African Economic and Monetary Union, constituting 40 percent of the monetary union¡¯s total GDP. The country is the world's largest exporter of Cocoa beans, and the fourth largest exporter of goods, in general, in sub-Saharan Africa (following South Africa, Nigeria and Angola). In 2009, the cocoa bean farmers earned $2.53 billion for cocoa exports and is expected to produce 630,000 metric tons in 2013.The Ivory Coast also has 100,000 rubber farmers which earned a total of $105 million in 2012.Natural resources include petroleum, natural gas, diamonds, manganese, iron, cobalt, bauxite, copper, and hydropower.In 2005 the UN Security Council banned Ivoirian diamond exports because the gems financed the purchase of guns used in the country's civil strife.
Continent: Africa
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Type20062007200820092010
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