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Burkina Faso — GDP growth
GDP Growth (Annual %) for Burkina Faso, 1961–2025.
Latest value · 2025
5.29%
GDP Growth (Annual %) · annual % · +30.9% since 1961
GDP growth for Burkina Faso was 5.29% in 2025, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 65 years, from 1961 to 2025. The highest recorded value was 11.01% in 1996. The lowest was -1.78% in 1984 (about -3.0× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to 0.42% per year.
Burkina Faso ranks 46 of 212 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 22%. The median for Sub-Saharan Africa is 4.61%, so Burkina Faso sits above it. It peaked in 1996 and has fallen 52% since. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved up 35%.
Key figures
Latest (2025)
5.29%
First (1961)
4.04%
Change
+30.9%
Highest
11.01%
in 1996
Lowest
-1.78%
in 1984
Average
4.42%
Annual growth (CAGR)
0.42%
Years of data
65
Recent years
| Year | annual % |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 5.29% |
| 2024 | 4.83% |
| 2023 | 3% |
| 2022 | 1.63% |
| 2021 | 6.94% |
| 2020 | 2.01% |
| 2019 | 5.89% |
| 2018 | 6.6% |
| 2017 | 6.2% |
| 2016 | 5.96% |
| 2015 | 3.92% |
| 2014 | 4.33% |
Reading this correctly. Annual percentage growth rate of GDP at constant market prices. A negative value means the economy contracted that year. Figures are in annual %. Comparing this series with a different measure of the same concept (for example a nominal figure against a purchasing-power-parity figure) will give misleading results.
Related data
Source. World Bank Open Data, indicator
NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG — GDP Growth (Annual %). Data licensed under CC BY 4.0. Values are reproduced as published; this page computes the summary statistics (change, CAGR, extremes) from the underlying annual series. View the original dataset on data.worldbank.org.