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CÔte D’iVoire*

H.E. Youssouf BAKAYOKO,
President, CEI

PArt i 11. Literacy Levels
Male:53.66% Female: 40.05%
CoUNtrY ProfiLE Total: 47.17% (2018)

Source-http://uis.unesco.org/en/country/ci
1. Official Name
Republique du Côte d’Ivoire PArt ii

2. Government LEgisLAtivE sYstEM
Presidential Republic

3. Head of State Designation LEGISLATURE
President Alassane Dramane OUTTARA (since 4
December 2010) 1. Structure of National Legislature:
Unicameral
4. Head of government Designation
Prime Minister Daniel Kablan DUNCAN (since 21 2. Names of the Houses in vernacular and English
November 2012) Assemblée Nationale (National Assembly)
3. Total no. of members in each house elected/
5. Capital
Yamoussoukro nominated
In the National Assembly (Assemblée Nationale),
6. Currency 255 members are elected by first-past-the-post
CommunauteFinanciereAfricaine franc (XAF) voting in 205 single and multi-member constitu-
encies to serve four-year terms.
7. Ethnic Groups (with %age population)
Akan 28.9%, Voltaique or Gur 16.1%, Northern 4. Popular House
Mande 14.5%, Kru 8.5%, Southern Mande 6.9%, un- Assemblée Nationale
specified 0.9%, non-Ivoirian 24.2%
5. Type of Electoral System
8. Date of Independence A single-seat constituencies, direct popular vote
7 August 1960 using first past the post.

9. Date of adoption of Democratic Constitution *After new constitution enacted in 2016, Parlia-
3 November 1960 Constitution was suspended ment will have two chambers, National Assembly
and new was approved in 2000 and the Senate

10. Language (s)
French (Official)

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