White people in Ivory Coast

White Ivorians are those who were born in or reside in Ivory Coast, who descend from Europe. There was a small but prominent white French community in Ivory Coast until 2002, when a failed coup d'état and civil war led to anti-French riots.[1] Of the 20,000 living in the country at the start of the conflict, by 2004 only 15,000 remained.[2]

Population graph
Year White population % of pop.
1960 30,000[3] .009%[4]
1980 60,000[3] .007%[4]
2002 20,000[1] .001%[4]
2004 15,000[2] .0009%[4]
gollark: That, and also by many metrics things are generally improving.
gollark: That doesn't really work at scale or for resource allocation decisions.
gollark: Probably because they're impossible to empirically test and tied up with politics.
gollark: It seems like good social/political/economic coordination mechanisms are a really underrated area of research.
gollark: If you did it properly, people might not even notice due to something something filter bubbles.

References
  1. Harman, Danna. "Hearts heavy, whites feeling driven from Africa". Christian Science Monitor. ISSN 0882-7729. Retrieved 2015-09-02.
  2. "French fears in Ivory Coast". BBC. 2004-01-19. Retrieved 2015-09-02.
  3. "Ivory Coast - The Economy". countrystudies.us. Retrieved 2015-09-02.
  4. countrymeters.info. "Cote d'Ivoire population 2015 | Current population of Cote d'Ivoire". countrymeters.info. Retrieved 2015-09-02.


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