Abidjan accounts for 20% of Ivory Coast's population which is approximately 3,576,000 people. This unsystematic population distribution is due to immigration of rural people to the city in search for better opportunity. Due to this reason, the population of the city has been doubling every seven years since 1945. But even if the population is growing, its growth rate cannot be compared to that during 1960-1990 when it was 10%. At just 4.5% p.a. population growth rate, the rural migration has also considerably reduced from 2/3rd in 1960-1990 to 1/3rd contribution in present situation.
But even so, the population numbers are very large if we compare them to other
Ivory Coast cities like Yamoussoukro (100,000 people) and Bouaké (1,500,000 people).