🇧🇫 Burkina Faso
Every statistic we track for Burkina Faso — 139 indicators, each with its latest value and world rank. Open the interactive profile →
$3,227
61.8 yrs
4.46
0.10
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📈 Economy
👥 Demographics
| Fertility Rate (WB) | 4.1 | #23/217 | 2024 |
| Gender Inequality Index | 0.6 | #27/172 | 2023 |
| Internally Displaced People | 2,062,534 | #12/38 | 2025 |
| Median Age | 18 | #221/235 | 2026 |
| Population | 18 | #60/229 | 2013 |
| Population | 24.6 | #56/191 | 2026 |
| Population Density | 89.9 | #125/235 | 2026 |
| Refugees by Country of Origin | 351,209 | #14/195 | 2025 |
| Urban Population | 28.3% | #195/213 | 2024 |
🌐 Connectivity
| Access to Electricity | 34% | #207/214 | 2024 |
| Get News from the Internet (Afrobarometer) | 23.1% | #33/39 | 2023 |
| Internet Users | 28.3% | #167/182 | 2024 |
| Mobile Subscriptions | 114 | #101/209 | 2022 |
| Read News Online | 21.1% | #61/75 | 2024 |
🫀 Health
🎓 Education
| Adult Literacy | 41.4% | #31/31 | 2023 |
| Education Spending (QoG) | 5.3% | #23/112 | 2023 |
🌱 Environment
| CO₂ per Capita (WB) | 0.3 | #177/203 | 2024 |
| Energy Use per Person | 326 | #139/149 | 2023 |
| Environmental Performance Index | 42.2 | #111/179 | 2024 |
| Renewable Electricity | 17.2% | #130/195 | 2024 |
🏛️ Governance
📰 Media & news
| Press Freedom Index | 48.5 | #108/177 | 2026 |
🛡️ Safety
| Felt Unsafe in the Neighbourhood (Afrobarometer) | 76.3% | #1/39 | 2023 |
| Global Peace Index | 3 | #11/160 | 2025 |
| Homicide Rate | 10 | #49/204 | 2023 |
| Road Traffic Deaths | 27.8 | #11/195 | 2021 |
| Trust in the Police (Afrobarometer) | 73.6% | #4/39 | 2023 |
⚠️ Risk & resilience
| Climate Seen as a Threat | 89.3% | #48/142 | 2023 |
| Confident Can Protect Family | 36.4% | #99/142 | 2023 |
| Disaster Exposure (WRI) | 0.1 | #185/193 | 2026 |
| Experienced a Disaster | 39.8% | #28/142 | 2023 |
| Experienced Discrimination (Skin Colour) | 4.7% | #79/139 | 2023 |
| INFORM Risk Index | 7.2 | #12/191 | 2025 |
| Resilience to Risk (WRP) | 46.9 | #105/141 | 2023 |
| World Risk Index | 2.1 | #158/193 | 2026 |
| Worry About Violent Crime | 82.5% | #26/142 | 2023 |
😊 Wellbeing
| Happiness (Cantril Ladder) | 4.5 | #123/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Freedom | 0.8 | #105/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: GDP | 1 | #136/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Generosity | 0.1 | #44/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Healthy Life Expectancy | 0.3 | #129/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Low Corruption | 0.3 | #22/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Social Support | 0.6 | #137/147 | 2025 |
| Human Development Index | 0.5 | #186/193 | 2023 |
| Went Without a Cash Income (Afrobarometer) | 92.2% | #11/39 | 2023 |
| Went Without Enough Food (Afrobarometer) | 61% | #22/39 | 2023 |
🧭 Attitudes & values
| Attended a Demonstration | 17% | #24/151 | 2017 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Effective | 83.9% | #69/143 | 2018 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Safe | 68% | #108/143 | 2018 |
| China’s Influence Seen as Positive (Afrobarometer) | 78.4% | #9/39 | 2023 |
| Country Going in the Right Direction (Afrobarometer) | 19.3% | #31/39 | 2023 |
| Signed a Petition | 16.8% | #57/121 | 2017 |
| Trust in Fellow Citizens (Afrobarometer) | 73.8% | #5/39 | 2023 |
| Trust in government | 4.9 | #50/123 | 2017 |
| Trust in parliament | 5.7 | #22/151 | 2017 |
| Trust in political parties | 3.7 | #52/120 | 2017 |
| Trust in Science | 56.1% | #127/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in Scientists | 47.4% | #128/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in the legal system | 5.7 | #44/153 | 2017 |
| US Influence Seen as Positive (Afrobarometer) | 70.1% | #13/39 | 2023 |
Latest available period per indicator. The rank counts down from the highest value, whatever that means for the series: on child mortality or extreme poverty the country at #1 is the worst in the world, not the best. Sources are credited on each indicator page.