Côte d'Ivoire 1960-2024: 65 years of economics in 5 acts
65 years of Ivorian economic data: GDP, 1994 FCFA devaluation, civil conflicts, and the 7-8% growth era. A 5-act data story.
Analysis Summary
Overview
65 years of Ivorian economic data from the World Bank's World Development Indicators (1960-2024), structured in 5 narrative acts. The economy did not move in a straight line. Four decades of shocks, adjustments, and rebounds are visible in the data, and the narrative structure makes those breaks legible. The analysis covers about ten indicators: real GDP per capita, annual inflation, population growth, cocoa and coffee exports, foreign direct investment, public spending, and life expectancy. Over the 65 years covered, four major shocks permanently changed the country's trajectory. The goal is to make those ruptures readable, not to produce an exhaustive inventory.
The 5 acts
Act I - Post-independence growth (1960-1980): GDP per capita doubled on cocoa and coffee exports, with average annual real growth close to 7%. The "Ivorian miracle" was real, and the data confirms it. Act II - Crises and adjustments (1980-1993): terms-of-trade shock, rising global interest rates, and austerity programs reversed most of those gains. Act III - FCFA devaluation (1994): +26% annual inflation in a single year, the sharpest shock in the entire 65-year dataset. Act IV - Conflicts and fractures (2000-2011): two civil conflicts (2002-2007, 2010-2011) broke the recovery just as it was getting back on track. Act V - Stabilization and growth (2012-2024): GDP back to 7-8% annual growth, sustained. 2024 inflation at +3.45%, below the WAEMU convergence threshold of 3%.
Data
All indicators come from the World Bank's public API (WDI), freely accessible under a CC BY 4.0 license. Temporal coverage varies by indicator: some series start in 1960, others in 1970 or later depending on data availability for Côte d'Ivoire. Missing values were not imputed. Series breaks are visible directly in the charts and documented in the reading notes. Reports are generated with Plotly and delivered as self-contained HTML files with no backend dependency and no client-side API calls. The source code is available on GitHub.
Interactive Report
This analysis was produced by Klomèna YEO, freelance Analytics Engineer specialised in Finance & HR data. Available for data projects in France and internationally.