Continent: Asia

Official Name: Federation of Malaysia

Type of Government: Constitutional Monarchy

Head of State & Monarch: King Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar

Head of Government: Anwar Ibrahim

Area: 330,803 km²

Currency: Malaysian Ringgit

Population (2023): 53.5 million people

Capitals: Kuala Lumpur (administrative capital: Putrajaya)

Major Cities: Kuala Lumpur, Georgetown, Ipoh, Johor Bahru, Melaka, Kota Kinabalu

Official Languages: Malay

Agreements and Conventions

Ivory Coast and Malaysia cooperate mainly through international organizations to which both states are parties, although there is strong economic cooperation between the two countries.

Thus, the two countries are members of the Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI), a world-class institution based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, which is one of the leading international organizations in the promotion of financial inclusion policies and regulation. Following an international call for applications, Ivory Coast was selected to host the headquarters of the AFI Regional Office for Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and North Africa.

Moreover, Ivory Coast and Malaysia are signatory members of the multilateral convention related to tax treaties to prevent base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS). This convention allows the various signatory countries to transpose the results of the BEPS project into their networks of bilateral tax treaties.

A. The main exported products are: cocoa beans, bulk cotton, rubber, and processed cocoa.

B. The main imported products are: dairy products, vegetable or animal fats and oils, plastics, other consumer goods, crude oil, mechanical machines, and electrical machines.

 

Source : DGE– DPCEI

 

  • The value of bilateral trade reached 605 billion FCFA in 2023, compared to 532.88 billion FCFA in 2022.

  • Over the period from 2019 to 2023, the average value of Ivorian exports is estimated at 439.171 billion FCFA per year, compared to 49.753 billion FCFA per year for imports.

  • Over the period from 2019 to 2023, the trade balance has been surplus for Côte d'Ivoire.