Yamoussoukro
2 km around Habitat
Air quality now
AQI 71
25.8%
tree cover
12.9K more trees would reach 30% tree cover
Africa · air quality report · 20 cities
Right now the 20 cities Airleaf measures in Ivory Coast average AQI 51 (moderate). The worst air is in Anyama, at AQI 76, and the cleanest in Abidjan, at AQI 55.
At ground stations alone, which measure rather than estimate, the average is AQI 64 across 3 cities. None of the 20 measured cities is over AQI 100 today, and 40% have Good air.
Average right now
AQI 51
Moderate
Updated . Lower is better on the US EPA index: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous. Measured by Airleaf.
Ivory Coast · average AQI 51
2 km around Habitat
Air quality now
AQI 71
25.8%
tree cover
12.9K more trees would reach 30% tree cover
2 km around Mermoz
Air quality now
AQI 55
18.0%
tree cover
37.7K more trees would reach 30% tree cover
2 km around Bouake
Air quality now
AQI 52
14.0%
tree cover
50.3K more trees would reach 30% tree cover
2 km around Koko
Air quality now
AQI 61
11.5%
tree cover
57.7K more trees would reach 30% tree cover
2 km around Daloa
Air quality now
AQI 30
17.2%
tree cover
40.2K more trees would reach 30% tree cover
2 km around San-Pedro
Air quality now
AQI 42
18.8%
tree cover
34.1K more trees would reach 30% tree cover
2 km around Gagnoa
Air quality now
AQI 60
15.4%
tree cover
45.9K more trees would reach 30% tree cover
2 km around Sinfra
Air quality now
AQI 33
23.0%
tree cover
22.0K more trees would reach 30% tree cover
Across the country
None of the 20 measured cities is over AQI 100 today, and 40% have Good air. Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
20 measured cities
Every measured city, including model estimates where no ground station is near.
In aggregate
Every figure below is read the same way over the same 2 km area per city, so they add up and compare like for like. Averaged across the 20 of 20 cities measured so far in Ivory Coast.
Excludes barren and desert sites
Against everywhere else
Right now the cities of Ivory Coast average cleaner air than 54% of the 171 countries Airleaf has enough cities to average, and more tree cover than 39%.
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Deforestation · 2001–2025
Since 2001, Ivory Coast has lost about 4.21 million hectares of forest (about 42,000 km²): 28% of the forest it had in 2000. Most of it (97%) was deforestation, forest cleared for good, mainly for farms, pasture and plantations.
Hectares of forest lost each year
| Year | Cleared for good | Can grow back | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 122,000 ha | 1,480 ha | 123,000 ha |
| 2002 | 143,000 ha | 2,080 ha | 145,000 ha |
| 2003 | 85,400 ha | 1,240 ha | 86,600 ha |
| 2004 | 46,900 ha | 1,140 ha | 48,000 ha |
| 2005 | 63,800 ha | 1,530 ha | 65,400 ha |
| 2006 | 96,100 ha | 1,710 ha | 97,800 ha |
| 2007 | 88,900 ha | 1,580 ha | 90,500 ha |
| 2008 | 124,000 ha | 3,310 ha | 128,000 ha |
| 2009 | 107,000 ha | 1,340 ha | 109,000 ha |
| 2010 | 91,000 ha | 1,650 ha | 92,600 ha |
| 2011 | 123,000 ha | 1,860 ha | 125,000 ha |
| 2012 | 94,300 ha | 1,930 ha | 96,200 ha |
| 2013 | 171,000 ha | 4,920 ha | 176,000 ha |
| 2014 | 339,000 ha | 8,620 ha | 348,000 ha |
| 2015 | 147,000 ha | 6,360 ha | 153,000 ha |
| 2016 | 212,000 ha | 9,890 ha | 222,000 ha |
| 2017 | 343,000 ha | 16,400 ha | 359,000 ha |
| 2018 | 313,000 ha | 13,100 ha | 326,000 ha |
| 2019 | 233,000 ha | 9,910 ha | 243,000 ha |
| 2020 | 240,000 ha | 9,750 ha | 249,000 ha |
| 2021 | 176,000 ha | 7,560 ha | 184,000 ha |
| 2022 | 167,000 ha | 6,620 ha | 174,000 ha |
| 2023 | 185,000 ha | 6,930 ha | 192,000 ha |
| 2024 | 160,000 ha | 7,150 ha | 167,000 ha |
| 2025 | 206,000 ha | 8,830 ha | 215,000 ha |
Forest loss is slowing down: about 186,000 hectares a year in 2021–2025, down from 280,000 hectares a year in 2016–2020. The worst year was 2017, when about 359,000 hectares of forest were lost.
Also: mining and energy, logging, storms, floods and other natural causes, wildfires, unknown causes.
Causes for 2025 are estimates, based on what caused forest loss in the same places up to 2024.
Source: Hansen/UMD/Google/USGS/NASA, Global Forest Change (GFC-2025-v1.13); causes: WRI/Google DeepMind drivers of forest loss; both CC BY 4.0, summed by Airleaf for each area. How it's measured
12.1% of Ivory Coast was forested as of 2024, against a 30% benchmark. Closing that gap nationally would take roughly 5.7B trees across 5.7M hectares. Source: World Bank (FAO).
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Right now the 20 cities Airleaf measures in Ivory Coast average AQI 51 (moderate). The worst air is in Anyama, at AQI 76, and the cleanest in Abidjan, at AQI 55. At ground stations alone, which measure rather than estimate, the average is AQI 64 across 3 cities. None of the 20 measured cities is over AQI 100 today, and 40% have Good air.
Anyama, at AQI 76 (Moderate) on the US EPA index. Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Abidjan, at AQI 55 (Moderate). Both lists rank current readings, from ground stations wherever Ivory Coast has at least three cities with one.
It depends on the city. 8 cities are Good, 12 cities are Moderate. At the national average of AQI 51: Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
About 4.21 million ha from 2001 to 2025, 28% of the forest it had in 2000, from the University of Maryland's yearly satellite maps of forest loss. 4.08 million ha of it was cleared for good, for farms, mines or towns.
Séguéla, with 32.5% tree cover within 2 km of its center, measured from Sentinel-2 satellite images.
Each city's reading is the US EPA air quality index, from ground monitoring stations where one has reported recently nearby, and from the CAMS atmospheric model elsewhere; each city's report says which. Tree cover is measured over the same 2 km radius in every city, so the cities compare like for like.
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