France fell from first to third among Côte d'Ivoire's suppliers
Share of Côte d'Ivoire's goods imports by origin, %, 2005 vs 2024, as reported by Côte d'Ivoire.
- 1. By 2100, more than 1 in 3 people will be African
- 2. Nearly half the world's under-25s will be African by 2100
- 3. DR Congo is projected to outgrow the US by 2100
- 4. Kinshasa will soon be bigger than Paris and London combined
- 5. Two-thirds of the world's mobile money moves in Africa
- 6. Volcanic heat makes nearly 45% of the power Kenya generates
- 7. Africa's solar imports more than doubled since early 2024
- 8. DR Congo mines three-quarters of the world's cobalt
- 9. Nearly two in three people in Africa are still offline
- 10. Africa formally recycles less than 1% of its e-waste
- 11. Ethiopia added over a third of Africa's new renewable power
- 12. Nigeria's cities now hold more people than Japan's
- 13. Sudan now has the world's most people displaced at home
- 14. Nigeria now has almost 25 million more people than Brazil
- 15. Six of the ten fastest-growing big cities are African
- 16. Africa now has more hungry people than Asia
- 17. Six in ten child deaths now happen in sub-Saharan Africa
- 18. Rwanda spread electricity faster than any country since 2014
- 19. Nigeria now eats more rice than Japan
- 20. More sub-Saharan Africans now have mobile money than bank accounts
- 21. Sub-Saharan Africa's cities now hold more people than Latin America's
- 22. DR Congo tripled its copper mining in ten years
- 23. Nitrogen dioxide over Khartoum fell 39% after war began
- 24. Countries mostly without electricity fell from 33 to 15
- 25. Seven in ten West African mobile money accounts sit idle
- 26. Nigeria became the third-biggest sender of students abroad
- 27. Guinea overtook Australia as the world's biggest bauxite miner
- 28. DR Congo passed Chile in refined copper
- 29. Burkina Faso now sends half its exports to the UAE
- 30. Nouakchott's mobile internet sped from Africa's slowest to top 30
- 31. Nigeria now imports more solar panels than generators
- 32. Zimbabwe climbed to fourth among the world's lithium miners
- 33. Services now employ twice as many Ghanaian women as farms
- 34. Sub-Saharan Africa doubled its grain, mostly by farming more land
- 35. Sub-Saharan Africa added more rural people than the whole world
- 36. France fell from first to third among Côte d'Ivoire's suppliers
- 37. China's car sales to Ethiopia are now mostly electric
France's share of Côte d'Ivoire's goods imports in 2024, down from 27.7% in 2005, when it was the top supplier.
China's share in 2024, up from 3.1%: China now sells Côte d'Ivoire 2.5 times what France does.
Côte d'Ivoire's import bill in 2024, nearly triple 2005, while France's sales fell from $1.6bn to $1.1bn: the market grew around the old link.
the numbers & method
| 2005 (%) | 2024 (%) | |
|---|---|---|
| France | 27.7 | 6.5 |
| China | 3.1 | 15.9 |
| Nigeria | 24.5 | 13.4 |
| United States | 2.0 | 4.9 |
| India | 1.4 | 4.8 |
Claim types Fact · Interpretation
UN Comtrade, annual goods trade, reporter Côte d'Ivoire (384), imports, all goods (TOTAL), primaryValue (current US$), read from the Comtrade public API (2024: the source link and the all-partner query reporterCode=384&period=2024&flowCode=M&cmdCode=TOTAL; 2005: same queries with period=2005). US$ bn, 2005 / 2024: world 5.865 / 17.219; France 1.623 / 1.112; Nigeria 1.439 / 2.312; China 0.179 / 2.737; United States 0.119 / 0.851; India 0.080 / 0.817. Ranks from the all-partner tables: France 1st in 2005 (Nigeria 2nd); in 2024 China 1st, Nigeria 2nd, France 3rd (Belgium next at 0.863). Nigeria's share is mostly crude oil and fuel. Shares and ratios (2.737 / 1.112 = 2.46; 17.219 / 5.865 = 2.94) are progrss calculations. China excludes Hong Kong and Macao. 2024 is the latest year Côte d'Ivoire has reported. Takeaway 3's reading is an interpretation. Licence: UN Comtrade data, attribution required.
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