Agriculture
- Total Area: 322,463 square kilometers
- Land Area: 318,003 square kilometers
- Water Area: 4,460 square kilometers
- Climate Description: tropical along coast, semiarid in far north; three seasons - warm and dry (November to March), hot and dry (March to May), hot and wet (June to October)
- Terrain Description: mostly flat to undulating plains; mountains in northwest
- Arable Land Use: 8.99%
- Permanent Crop Land Use: 13.65%
- Irrigated Land: 727.5 square kilometers
- Total Renewable Water Resources: 81.14 cubic kilometers
- Total Freshwater Withdrawal: 1.55 cubic kilometers per year
- Per Person Freshwater Withdrawal: 83.07 cubic meters per year
- Natural Hazards Description: coast has heavy surf and no natural harbors; during the rainy season torrential flooding is possible
- Environmental Current Issues: deforestation (most of the country's forests - once the largest in West Africa - have been heavily logged); water pollution from sewage and industrial and agricultural effluents
- Total Labor Force: 7.746 million
- % of Labor Force in Agriculture: 68%
- Agricultural Products Description: coffee, cocoa beans, bananas, palm kernels, corn, rice, cassava (manioc), sweet potatoes, sugar, cotton, rubber; timber