Côte d'Ivoire: more babies born than in France
births in 2023
France has 2.1 times as many people (66.4M against 31.2M), yet more babies were born here in 2023: 997k against 639k. It overtook France in births in 1999.
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Live births in a calendar year, for two countries: one has far fewer people yet more babies.
Blue is the country of the headline, orange the one it is compared with; one scale. The ring marks where the lines crossed; the gap after it is shaded. The large numbers are the latest year both share.
- Côte d'Ivoire: Births thousand births per year
149 (1950) → 997 (2023)
- France: Births thousand births per year
866 (1950) → 639 (2023)
- Côte d'Ivoire: Population thousand persons, 1 July
31,166 (2023)
- France: Population thousand persons, 1 July
66,439 (2023)
Well-known countries against every country of sufficient size. An overtaking counts if the country was well behind at the start, ahead in no more than a fifth of the years before it, and it lasts to the latest shared year (at least two or three years in a row). A short dip of up to two years does not end a lead and is named. At most three overtakings per well-known country, and each country in at most one card of a kind.
UN estimates (World Population Prospects 2024) and national statistics where available; population on 1 July of the same year.
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How many of these children will look for work in 20 years, and where?