Lebanese people in Ivory Coast

Lebanese people in the Ivory Coast are a community of people whose ancestors are Lebanese and either emigrated to the Ivory Coast directly or are descended from those who did. It is the largest Lebanese diaspora in Africa.[1]

Lebanese people in the Ivory Coast
Total population
80,000 - 100,000[2][3]
Upper Estimate: 300,000[4][5]
Regions with significant populations
Abidjan
Religion
Islam (primarily Shia), Christianity[6]
Related ethnic groups
Lebanese diaspora

The number of Lebanese people in the Ivory Coast are variously estimated in the tens or hundreds of thousands.[6][7] They are the largest Lebanese diaspora community in West Africa.[8] 80% of the Lebanese community in Ivory Coast lives in Abidjan, and about 20% of them live in Bouaké.[9]

  1. ^ "Côte d'Ivoire : insubmersibles Libanais - Jeune Afrique.com". JeuneAfrique.com (in French). Retrieved 2024-08-07.
  2. ^ "Des investisseurs libanais à Abidjan pour investir en Afrique". VOA.
  3. ^ "Côte d'Ivoire : insubmersibles Libanais – Jeune Afrique". JeuneAfrique.com.
  4. ^ "Côte d'Ivoire - World Directory of Minorities & Indigenous Peoples". Minority Rights Group. January 30, 2018.
  5. ^ "The Demographic Dimensions of the Conflict in Ivory Coast".
  6. ^ a b Handloff 1988
  7. ^ "Abidjan district tense after Lebanese kills youth", All West Africa News/Agence France-Presse, 2009-07-14, retrieved 2010-01-11
  8. ^ Peleikis 2000, p. 301
  9. ^ "Lebanese abandoned in Ivory Coast". Al Bawaba.

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