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Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso: 42 indicators from open sources, newest value for each.

Demography

Population, total 24.1 MWorld Bank2025 Population aged 0-14 41.2%World Bank2025 Population aged 15-64 56.1%World Bank2025 Population aged 65+ 2.7%World Bank2025 Female share of population 50.2%World Bank2025 Urban population 28.9%World Bank2025 Fertility rate 4.1World Bank2024 Adolescent fertility rate 85.5World Bank2024 Life expectancy at birth 61.3yearsWorld Bank2024 Infant mortality 43.6‰World Bank2024 Net migration -27 130World Bank2025

Education

Adult literacy rate 41.6%World Bank2023 Secondary school enrolment 30.0%World Bank2024 Tertiary enrolment 10.0%World Bank2024 Education spending 5.3%World Bank2023

Income

GDP per capita, PPP $3 072$World Bank2025 GNI per capita, PPP $2 890$World Bank2025 Gini index 37.4World Bank2021 Poverty headcount at $2.15/day 42.1%World Bank2021 Income share held by richest 10% 30.2%World Bank2021

Health

Suicide rate 8.5per 100kWorld Bank2021 Health spending 7.8%World Bank2023

Connectivity

Individuals using the internet 28.3%World Bank2024 Mobile subscriptions 116.6per 100World Bank2024 Access to electricity 34.0%World Bank2024

Environment

CO2 emissions per capita 0.3tWorld Bank2024

Trust People

Most people can be trusted survey72.6%Afrobarometer2022

Trust Institutions

Confidence in the government survey50.3%Afrobarometer2022 Confidence in the police survey70.8%Afrobarometer2022 Confidence in the courts survey51.9%Afrobarometer2022

Gender Roles

Women in national parliament 18.3%World Bank2025

Democracy

It is important to live in a democracy survey55.2%Afrobarometer2022 Satisfied with how democracy works survey33.5%Afrobarometer2022

Immigration Attitudes

Would not want immigrants as neighbours survey7.7%Afrobarometer2022

Employment

Unemployment rate 3.5%World Bank2025 Youth unemployment rate 6.4%World Bank2025 Female labour force participation 64.1%World Bank2025 Male labour force participation 76.1%World Bank2025 Self-employed share 82.6%World Bank2025

Safety

Intentional homicides 1.3per 100kWorld Bank2017 Feels safe walking alone at night survey23.0%Afrobarometer2022

Tolerance

Homosexuality is justifiable survey10.8%Afrobarometer2022

Socially closest countries

  1. Hong Kong SAR, China80%
  2. Panama76%
  3. Togo76%
  4. United States75%
  5. Benin75%
  6. Kazakhstan74%

Distance is computed on 8 value questions the two societies were both asked, standardised within each survey so that a different questionnaire does not pass for a different society. Similarity is relative to the widest distance in the world.

Every number carries its source and year. Where a country is missing, it is missing — we do not interpolate.