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

Fiji

Marshall Is.

New Zealand

Palau

Samoa

Bahamas

Bermuda (U.K.)

Cayman Is. (U.K.)

Cuba

Dominican Republic

St. Lucia

Trinidad and Tobago

Afghanistan

Kazakhstan

Tajikistan

Uzbekistan

Central Asia

China

Hong Kong S.A.R. (China)

Japan

Macau S.A.R. (China)

Mongolia

Nepal

South Korea

East Asia

Armenia

Azerbaijan

Georgia

Russia

Eurasia

Albania

Andorra

Austria

Belarus

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bulgaria

Croatia

Cyprus

Czechia

Denmark

Estonia

Finland

Germany

Greece

Hungary

Iceland

Ireland

Italy

Latvia

Lithuania

Malta

Moldova

Montenegro

Netherlands

Northern Macedonia

Norway

Poland

Portugal

Romania

San Marino

Serbia

Slovakia

Slovenia

Spain

Sweden

United Kingdom

Belize

Bolivia

Brazil

Chile

Colombia

Costa Rica

Ecuador

El Salvador

Guatemala

Honduras

Panama

Paraguay

Peru

Suriname

Uruguay

Venezuela

Curaçao (Neth.)

Greenland (Denmark)

Mauritania

Mauritius

Puerto Rico (U.S.)

São Tomé and Príncipe

Tonga

Mexico

United States

Bangladesh

Bhutan

India

Pakistan

Sri Lanka

South Asia

Brunei

Cambodia

Indonesia

Malaysia

Myanmar

Philippines

Singapore

Thailand

Vietnam

Southeast Asia

Bahrain

Egypt

Iran

Iraq

Israel

Jordan

Kuwait

Oman

Palestine

Qatar

Saudi Arabia

Tunisia

Turkey

United Arab Emirates

Southwest Asia and North Africa

Angola

Burundi

Ethiopia

Kenya

Mozambique

South Africa

Tanzania

Uganda

Zambia

Zimbabwe

A map shows adult females with up to an upper secondary education. Dark red shows higher percentages, like in North America and Australia. Red to orange shows medium percentages, such as Brazil and Saudi Arabia. Light orange indicates lower percentages, such as in most of Asia, and Russia.

The percentage of the female population ages 25 and older that attained or completed upper secondary education as the highest level of education

World Bank

Adult Females with only up to an Upper Secondary Education

Percent

Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Members	French as Official or de facto Language	Adult Females with only up to an Upper Secondary Education
Value	Value	Class	Rank	Percent