Real GDP per person during each president's tenure

Every president since 1991, ranked by how real GDP per person changed from their first day in office. Politare shows what happened during a tenure; it does not claim the office-holder caused it.

#	President	In office	Total	Per year	Chart
1	Alassane Ouattara	11 Apr 2011 – now	+60.5% 2010 → 2024	+3.4%/yr
2	PDCI Henri Konan Bédié	7 Dec 1993 – 24 Dec 1999	+2.9% 1993 → 1999	+0.5%/yr
3	FPI Laurent Gbagbo	26 Oct 2000 – 11 Apr 2011	−12.2% 2000 → 2010	−1.3%/yr

Sorted by total, highest first. Every row is indexed to the last count complete before the first day in office ("from" marks a start that had to move because that count had no data, or because the period cut it); Levels are per cent changes, rates are differences in %; "per year" compounds levels and divides rates. Tenures with under 12 months, or under three observations, are left out. CFAF thousand per person, 2015 prices · The statistics office's GDP as the IMF's World Economic Outlook carries it (chain-linked volumes re-referenced to 2015), over the population (World Bank, UN estimates) · Ivory Coast data · as of Sep 2026.