Burkina Faso
65 figures for Burkina Faso, each the latest the source has. Pick one to see how Burkina Faso compares.
Economy
- GDP per person $1,148 (2025)
- GDP per person, price-adjusted $3,072 (2025)
- Economic growth +5.3% (2025)
- Unemployment 3.5% (2025)
- Inflation +4.2% (2024)
- Exports 28.6% (2024)
- Income per person $2,390 (2023)
- Household wealth 29.2 (2010)
- Poorer households 87.1% (2010)
- Wealth inequality 0.29 (2013)
- Women in paid work 76.8% (2010)
People
- Population 23 million (2023)
- Population growth +2.21% (2025)
- Births per woman 4.11 (2024)
- Typical age 17.3 (2023)
- Living in cities 28.9% (2025)
- Human Development Index 0.459 (2023)
- Women’s vs men’s development 0.881 (2023)
- People per household 7.8 (2010)
- People over 65 3.7% (2010)
- Children under 15 48.8% (2010)
- Women’s age at first marriage 17.6 (2010)
- Mothers’ age at first birth 19.1 (2010)
Health
- Life expectancy 61.1 (2023)
- Child deaths (under 5) 74.9 (2024)
- Mothers dying in childbirth 242 (2023)
- Health spending per person $72 (2023)
- Measles vaccination 88% (2024)
- Overweight adults 21.7% (2022)
- Stunted children 34.6% (2010)
- Overweight children 3.6% (2010)
- Homes with piped water 8.0% (2010)
- Homes with a flush toilet 1.9% (2010)
Education
- Years of schooling 2.3 (2023)
- Expected years in school 8.7 (2023)
- Secondary school enrollment 30.9% (2023)
- Education spending 5.3% (2022)
- Teens in school 33.6% (2010)
Environment
- CO₂ per person 0.276 (2024)
- Total CO₂ emissions 6.51 million (2024)
- Forest cover 22.2% (2023)
- Air pollution (PM2.5) 34.6 (2024)
- Renewable energy share 71.2% (2021)
- Average temperature 28.5 (2022)
Energy
- Energy use per person 326 (2023)
- Access to electricity 34.0% (2024)
- Renewable electricity 17.2% (2024)
- Nuclear electricity 0.0% (2024)
- Coal electricity 0.0% (2024)
- Cooking with wood or dung 94.1% (2013)
Technology
- Internet users 28.3% (2024)
- Mobile phone subscriptions 114.0 (2022)
- Home broadband 0.2 (2022)
- Homes with internet 0.6% (2010)
- Homes with a mobile phone 59.2% (2010)
Food and farming
- Hunger 13.1% (2023)
- Cereal yield 1,221 (2023)
- Farmland 53.4% (2023)
- Jobs in farming 51.8% (2025)
Government
- Electoral democracy 0.13 (2025)
- Human rights 0.46 (2025)
- Control of corruption −0.22 (2025)
- Women in parliament 18.3% (2025)
- Military spending 4.7% (2024)
- Clean government 63.6 (2022)