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Exact population: 17,654,843 note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2006 est.)
Literacy: Total population: 50.9%; male: 57.9%; female: 43.6%
Ethnicities: Akan 42.1%, Voltaiques or Gur 17.6%, Northern Mandes 16.5%, Krous 11%, Southern Mandes 10%, other 2.8% (includes 130,000 Lebanese and 14,000 French) (1998)
Land boundaries: Total: 3,110 km; border countries: Burkina Faso 584 km, Ghana 668 km, Guinea 610 km, Liberia 716 km, Mali 532 km
Terrain: Mostly flat to undulating plains; mountains in northwest
Extremes: Lowest point: Gulf of Guinea 0 m; highest point: Mont Nimba 1,752 m
Imports: France 24.3%, Nigeria 19.2%, UK 4% (2004)
Exports: US 11.6%, Netherlands 10.2%, France 9.5%, Italy 5.5%, Belgium 4.7%, Germany 4.7% (2004)
Industries: Foodstuffs, beverages; wood products, oil refining, truck and bus assembly, textiles, fertilizer, building materials, electricity, ship construction and repair

Source: CIA World Factbook