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

Fiji

Papua New Guinea

Samoa

Solomon Is.

Dominica

Dominican Republic

Grenada

Jamaica

St. Lucia

St. Vincent and the Grenadines

Afghanistan

Kazakhstan

Kyrgyzstan

Tajikistan

Turkmenistan

Uzbekistan

Central Asia

China

Mongolia

Nepal

East Asia

Armenia

Azerbaijan

Georgia

Russia

Eurasia

Albania

Belarus

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bulgaria

Kosovo

Moldova

Montenegro

Northern Macedonia

Romania

Serbia

Ukraine

Argentina

Belize

Bolivia

Brazil

Colombia

Costa Rica

Ecuador

El Salvador

Guatemala

Guyana

Honduras

Nicaragua

Panama

Paraguay

Peru

Mauritania

Mauritius

São Tomé and Príncipe

Tonga

Mexico

Bangladesh

Bhutan

India

Maldives

Pakistan

Sri Lanka

South Asia

Cambodia

Indonesia

Laos

Malaysia

Myanmar

Philippines

Thailand

Timor-Leste

Vietnam

Southeast Asia

Algeria

Egypt

Iran

Jordan

Lebanon

Morocco

Tunisia

Turkey

Yemen

Southwest Asia and North Africa

Angola

Botswana

Burundi

eSwatini

Ethiopia

Kenya

Lesotho

Malawi

Mozambique

Somalia

South Africa

Sudan

Tanzania

Uganda

Zambia

Zimbabwe

A map highlights the total debt service of G N I. The highest debt service (over 20 percent) is shaded in dark blue in Zambia, around 23.1 percent. Lower levels (less than 5 percent) are shaded in light blue across Africa (Sudan) and Asia (India and China).

Costs of principal repayments and interest paid to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as a percentage of total gross national income (GNI)

World Bank

Total Debt Service (Percentage of Gross Nation Income)

Percent of GNI

American Samoa (U.S.)

Australia

Cook Is. (New Zealand)

Guam (U.S.)

Kiribati

Marshall Is.

Micronesia

Nauru

New Zealand

Northern Mariana Is. (U.S.)

Palau

St. Helena (U.K.)

Tuvalu

Anguilla (U.K.)

Antigua and Barbuda

Aruba (Neth.)

Bahamas

Barbados

Bermuda (U.K.)

British Virgin Is. (U.K.)

Cayman Is. (U.K.)

Cuba

St. Kitts and Nevis

Trinidad and Tobago

Turks and Caicos Is. (U.K.)

U.S. Virgin Is. (U.S.)

Hong Kong S.A.R. (China)

Japan

Macau S.A.R. (China)

North Korea

South Korea

Taiwan

Andorra

Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Members	French as Official or de facto Language	Total Debt Service (Percentage of Gross Nation Income)			Male-Female Ratio			Average Number of Tornado Incidences per Year (U.S.)
Value	Value	Class	Rank	Percent of GNI	Class	Rank	Ratio of males to females	Less than 1	1–5	6–10	11–15	More than 15












								65.3%	51.1%	35.9%	21.6%	5.21%