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Burkina Faso

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Burkina Faso is a country. The capital city is Ouagadougou, located in the Western Africa region of Africa. It has a land area of 273,600 km², a population of 23,025,776 people and uses the currency West African CFA franc. The President is Roch Marc Christian Kaboré.

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currency: West African CFA franc
capital city: Ouagadougou
region: Western Africa
continent: Africa
land area: 273,600 km²
population: 23,025,776 people
political leader: Roch Marc Christian Kaboré (President)

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central government debt: 62.53 % of GDP
expense: 20.82 % of GDP
GDP: 20,324,617,844.53 current US$
inflation: 0.74 annual %
self-employed workers: 75.28 % of total employment
tax revenue: 17.67 % of GDP
unemployment: 5.35 % of total labor force
vulnerable employment: 71.28 % of total employment
armed forces personnel: 11,000 people
democracy score: 4.75
democracy type: Hybrid regime
internally displaced persons, by conflict and violence: 2,063,000 people
individuals using the Internet: 17.00 % of population
military expenditure: 4.01 % of GDP
net migration: -24,957 people
press freedom: 3.19
proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments: 16.90 %
birth rate: 34.95 per 1,000 people
death rate: 8.66 per 1,000 people
health expenditure per capita: 56.95 current US$
health expenditure: 6.38 % of GDP
incidence of HIV: 0.08 per 1,000 uninfected population
hospital beds: 0.20 per 1,000 people
life expectancy at birth: 60
suicide mortality rate: 7.50 per 100,000 population
agricultural land: 127,400.00 km²
carbon dioxide emissions (CO2): 6.00 Mt of CO2 equivalent
access to electricity: 19.50 % of population
fertility rate: 4.67 births per woman
forest area: 61,164 km²
greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, SF6): 34.46 Mt of CO2 equivalent
median age: 13.40
methane emissions: 20.83 Mt of CO2 equivalent
nitrous oxide emissions: 6.71 Mt of CO2 equivalent
female population: 11,557,013 people
male population: 11,468,763 people
renewable energy consumption: 71.40 % of total final energy consumption
rural land area: 273,918.35 km²
rural population: 15,537,794 people
urban land area: 1,599.30 km²
urban population: 7,487,982 people
urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters : 0.00 % of total population

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