Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso in numbers — 19 World Bank indicators, each linking to its complete year-by-year history.
Burkina Faso recorded GDP per capita: 1,148 (2025), ranking 192 of 212 worldwide; Population: 24.07 million (2025), ranking 59 of 217 worldwide; Life expectancy: 61.3 (2024), ranking 208 of 217 worldwide; Inflation: -0.59% (2025), ranking 182 of 187 worldwide. The year in brackets is the reference year for that figure.
Measured across each series' full span, GDP shows the largest increase (+8261%) and Inflation the largest decrease (-108%). Every indicator below links to its complete year-by-year series.
Across the measures below it sits below the world median on slightly more than half. Measured against the median of every economy covered here, 7 of 19 comparable series are higher and 12 are lower.
Its population of 24.07 million (2025) makes it a mid-sized population by the standards of this dataset.
All 19 series on this page carry a value for 2023 or later.
Indicators
| Indicator | Latest | Year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| GDP | 27,627,297,461.32 | 2025 | +8260.7% |
| GDP per capita | 1,147.57 | 2025 | +1559.5% |
| GDP growth | 5.29% | 2025 | +30.9% |
| Population | 24,074,580 | 2025 | +403.8% |
| Population growth | 2.21% | 2025 | +52.7% |
| Urban population | 28.92% | 2025 | +474.4% |
| Inflation | -0.59% | 2025 | -107.5% |
| Life expectancy | 61.29 | 2024 | +69.9% |
| Infant mortality | 43.6 | 2024 | -74.6% |
| CO2 per capita | 0.27 | 2024 | +580.5% |
| GDP (PPP) | 73,948,093,046.13 | 2025 | +1324.0% |
| GDP per capita (PPP) | 3,071.63 | 2025 | +441.8% |
| Labor participation | 70.01% | 2025 | -16.6% |
| Unemployment | 3.48% | 2025 | +40.9% |
| Electricity access | 34% | 2024 | +457.4% |
| Internet users | 28.25% | 2024 | — |
| Forest area | 22.17% | 2023 | -21.4% |
| Health spending | 7.8% | 2023 | +94.0% |
| Education spending | 5.33% | 2023 | +217.1% |