733.04 (2001), 711.98 (2000)

Fiscal year:
calendar year

Communications Cote d'Ivoire

Telephones - main lines in use:
328,000 (2003)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
1.236 million (2003)

Telephone system:
general assessment: well developed by African standards but
operating well below capacity
domestic: open-wire lines and microwave radio relay; 90% digitalized
international: country code - 225; satellite earth stations - 2
Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean); 2 submarine cables
(June 1999)

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 2, FM 9, shortwave 3 (1998)

Radios:
2.26 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations:
14 (1999)

Televisions:
1.09 million (2000)

Internet country code:
.ci

Internet hosts:
3,795 (2004)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
5 (2001)

Internet users:
90,000 (2002)

Transportation Cote d'Ivoire

Railways:
total: 660 km
narrow gauge: 660 km 1.000-meter gauge
note: an additional 622 km of this railroad extends into Burkina
Faso (2004)

Highways:
total: 50,400 km
paved: 4,889 km
unpaved: 45,511 km (1999 est.)

Waterways:
980 km (navigable rivers, canals, and numerous coastal lagoons)
(2003)

Pipelines:
condensate 107 km; gas 223 km; oil 104 km (2004)

Ports and harbors:
Abidjan, Aboisso, Dabou, San-Pedro

Airports:
37 (2004 est.)

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 7
over 3,047 m: 1
2,438 to 3,047 m: 2
1,524 to 2,437 m: 4 (2004 est.)

Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 30
1,524 to 2,437 m: 7
914 to 1,523 m: 15
under 914 m: 8 (2004 est.)

Military Cote d'Ivoire

Military branches:
Army, Navy, Air Force

Military service age and obligation:
18 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military service;
conscript service obligation - 18 months (2004)

Manpower available for military service:
males age 18-49: 3,696,106 (2005 est.)

Manpower fit for military service:
males age 18-49: 1,973,265 (2005 est.)

Manpower reaching military service age annually:
males: 189,354 (2005 est.)

Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$180.2 million (2004)

Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
1.2% (2004)

Transnational Issues Cote d'Ivoire

Disputes - international:
rebel and ethnic fighting against the central government in 2002
has spilled into neighboring states, driven out foreign cocoa
workers from nearby countries, and,