Benin

Burkina Faso

Cabo Verde

Côte d'Ivoire

Gambia

Ghana

Guinea

Guinea-Bissau

Liberia

Mali

Niger

Nigeria

Senegal

Sierra Leone

Togo

Sub-Saharan Africa

A map highlights E C O W A S members highlighted in blue. Some of the Countries are Mali, Niger, Senegal, Nigeria, Guinea, and Côte d'Ivoire.

Member states of the Economic Community of West African States, an organization founded in 1975 to promote economic integration among its members

Countries

ECOWAS

Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Members

French Polynesia (France)

Australia & Oceania

Haiti

Martinique (France)

Seychelles

St. Barthélemy (France)

St. Martin (France)

Caribbean

Belgium

France

Luxembourg

Monaco

Switzerland

Europe

French Guiana (France)

Latin America

Guadeloupe (France)

Mayotte (France)

New Caledonia (France)

Réunion (France)

St. Pierre and Miquelon (France)

Vanuatu

Wallis and Futuna Is. (France)

None

Canada

North America

Cameroon

Central African Republic

Chad

Comoros

Democratic Republic of Congo

Djibouti

Equatorial Guinea

Gabon

Madagascar

Republic of the Congo

Rwanda

A map shows countries where French is an official or de facto language. The countries are highlighted in blue and include France, Canada, Mali, Niger, Chad, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Guinea, Senegal, Congo, Gabon, and Madagascar.

Countries where French is an official (or serves as a de facto) language

World

Ethnologue

French as Official or de facto Language

Australia

New Zealand

Solomon Is.

Cuba

Dominican Republic

Afghanistan

Kazakhstan

Kyrgyzstan

Tajikistan

Turkmenistan

Uzbekistan

Central Asia

China

Hong Kong S.A.R. (China)

Japan

Mongolia

Nepal

South Korea

Taiwan

East Asia

Armenia

Azerbaijan

Georgia

Russia

Eurasia

Albania

Austria

Belarus

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bulgaria

Croatia

Cyprus

Czechia

Denmark

Germany

Greece

Hungary

Italy

Kosovo

Malta

Moldova

Montenegro

Netherlands

Northern Macedonia

Norway

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Serbia

Slovakia

Slovenia

Spain

Sweden

Ukraine

United Kingdom

Argentina

Bolivia

Brazil

Chile

Colombia

Costa Rica

Ecuador

El Salvador

Guatemala

Honduras

Nicaragua

Panama

Paraguay

Peru

Suriname

Uruguay

Venezuela

Mauritania

Mauritius

Mexico

United States

Bangladesh

India

Maldives

Pakistan

Sri Lanka

South Asia

Indonesia

Malaysia

Myanmar

Thailand

Vietnam

Southeast Asia

Algeria

Bahrain

Egypt

Iran

Iraq

Israel

Jordan

Kuwait

Lebanon

Libya

Morocco

Oman

Palestine

Syria

Tunisia

Turkey

Yemen

Southwest Asia and North Africa

Angola

eSwatini

Ethiopia

Kenya

Malawi

Mozambique

Namibia

Somalia

South Africa

Sudan

Uganda

Zimbabwe

Mass protests globally, with dark green indicating more than 10 protests in the U S, Brazil, Pakistan, France, Spain, and India. Light green indicates 0 to 1 protests in Afghanistan and in some African nations, including Zimbabwe, Namibia, and Algeria.

The number of protests with a peak size over 100,000 per country, 2019-2023

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Mass Protests

Protests

Estonia

Finland

Ireland

Latvia

Lithuania

Singapore

United Arab Emirates

2022 Netflix subscribers by country: Dark red indicates more than 10 million, with the highest concentrations in the U.S. Germany, U.K., and Brazil. Moderate red indicates 1 to 10 million in Canada, India, Australia, and parts of Europe (Russia).

Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Members	French as Official or de facto Language	Mass Protests			Netflix Subscribers			National Parks
Value	Value	Class	Rank	Protests	Class	Rank	Value	National Parks
								4.55%
								3.83%
								4.88%
								2.49%
								1.63%
								2.28%
								2.40%
								51.0%
								1.22%
								1.79%
								1.24%
								3.85%
								2.02%