Burkina Faso

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Key facts

  • Currency: West African CFA franc
  • Capital city: Ouagadougou
  • Region: Western Africa
  • Continent: Africa
  • Land area: 273,600 km²
  • Population: 22,673,762
  • Political Leader: Roch Marc Christian Kaboré (President)

Latest news

Rosatom and Burkina Faso sign peaceful nuclear cooperation plan

Read: TASS News Agency

2024-03-26

Burkina Faso's security forces are killing more civilians. Survivors detailed 1 village's massacre

Read: Fox News

2024-03-22

Several Nigerien soldiers killed in ambush near Burkina Faso, Mali border

Read: France 24

2024-03-22

Burkina Faso's security forces are killing more civilians. Survivors detailed 1 village's massacre

Read: The Star

2024-03-22

Burkina Faso's security forces are killing more civilians. Survivors detailed 1 village's massacre

Read: Independent

2024-03-22

Burkina Faso's security forces are killing more civilians. Survivors detailed 1 village's massacre

Read: Independent

2024-03-22

Armed groups continue terror campaign across Burkina Faso

Read: United Nations

2024-03-21

Metrics

Business

Central government debt 55.74 % of GDP
Expense 18.23 % of GDP
GDP 18,820,100,000.00 current US$
Inflation 14.29 annual %
Self-employed 85.62 % of total employment
Tax revenue 15.98 % of GDP
Unemployment 5.07 % of total labor force
Vulnerable employment 83.23 % of total employment


Environment

Agricultural land 127,400.00 km²
Carbon Dioxide Emissions (CO2) 5,456.70 kt
Fertility rate 4.77 births per woman
Forest area 61,664 km²
Other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6 2,087.93 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent
Median age 12.90 years
Methane emissions 15,408.30 kt of CO2 equivalent
Nitrous oxide emissions 10,060.70 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent
Female Population 11,374,607
Male Population 11,299,155
Renewable energy consumption 68.00 % of total final energy consumption
Rural land area 273,918.00 km²
Rural population 15,446,047
Urban land area 1,599.30 km²
Urban population 7,227,715
Urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters 0.00 % of total population


Health

Birth rate 35.54 per 1,000 people
Death rate 8.96 per 1,000 people
Health expenditure per capita 54.18 current US$
Health expenditure 6.72 % of GDP
Incidence of HIV 0.08 per 1,000 uninfected population
Hospital beds 0.40 per 1,000 people
Life expectancy at birth 59 years
Suicide mortality rate 7.50 per 100,000 population


Other

Access to electricity 18.95 % of population
Internally displaced persons, by conflict and violence 1,882,000
Individuals using the Internet 21.58 % of population
Net migration -24,998
Press freedom 3.19


Politics

Armed forces personnel 11,000
Democracy score 4.75
Democracy type Hybrid regime
Military expenditure 3.09 % of GDP
Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments 16.90 %


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Coordinates: [13°0′N, -2°0′S]
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Datasets

Source

SIPRI, World Bank

Updated: 2 days ago

License

CC BY 4.0

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