Burkina Faso Analytics

Burkina Faso is a mid-size country with 0.3% of the world's population. It has 4 world heritage sites.

LANGUAGES

Official Language:
1. Fula : 2,255,000
2. Bambara : 1,116,000

Mother Tongue : Fula

Literacy Rate (%) : 39

Country Capital	:	Ouagadougou
GDP Per capita	:	2,986
GDP Per Capita Rank	:	169^th/195
Life Expectancy	:	61
Unemployment Rate	:	5
Number of Internet Users	:	4,638,554
Internet Users Rank	:	107^th/195
Area	:	273,601
Area Rank	:	73^rd/195
Total Population	:	24,075
Total Population Rank	:	59^th/195

Continent: Africa

Cities with > 100K popln: 6

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Burkina Faso Highlights

Burkina Faso is the 59^th ranked country in population and 73^rd ranked in area out of 195 countries in the world.Please keep the country rank in perspective, for the highlights below.

Worse than World Average-

1. Burkina Faso is the 7^th worst ranked in Literacy Rate (%) out of 195 countries in the world. This indicates that the educational infrastructure in this country is worse than it is in other countries.
2. The average Doctors (Per 10,000) of the countries in the world is 20. Burkina Faso is the 25^th worst-ranked country out of 195 countries. This may indicate worse healthcare infrastructure investment by the country or may indicate lower population.
3. Out of the 195 countries in the world, Burkina Faso is the 27^th worst ranked in GDP Per Capita (USD) . This implies that this country is a developing country.

Burkina Faso Metrics

Culture

Nature

Internet

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Bobo	# People	3,487	1	1125
2	Bobo as a % of total Bobo speakers	% People	0	1	1127
3	Bambara	# People	55,343	4	1126
4	Songhay Languages	# People	49,166	4	1129
5	Bambara as a % of total Bambara speakers	% People	0	4	1127
6	Songhay Languages as a % of total Songhay Languages speakers	% People	0	5	1125
7	Fula	# People	188,175	6	1130
8	Fula as a % of total Fula speakers	% People	0	7	1126
Below than World Average-
1	French	# People	596,219	17	1233
2	French as a % of total French speakers	% People	0	17	1231

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	# Students per teacher in Primary edu.	Ratio	260	4	1126
2	Enrolment in Primary Edu./ Total Literate Pop %.	% People	36	9	1127
Below than World Average-
1	Literacy Rate (%)	% People	86	188	1231
2	Enrolment in Secondary Edu./Total Pop %.	% People	23	143	1232
3	Enrolment in Tertiary Edu./ Total Pop. %.	% People	9	141	1233
4	Teachers as a % of Enrolment	% People	41	127	1234
5	Enrolment in Tertiary Edu/Total Literate Pop. %.	% People	9	118	1232
6	Enrolment in tertiary edu.(all programmes)	# People	4,618,191	100	1235
7	Teachers in tertiary edu.	# People	297,976	92	1235
8	Total Literate Pop.	# People	34,678,001	89	1230
9	# Total Teachers (Primary+Secondary+Tertiary)	# People	2,895,876	82	1230
10	Teachers in secondary edu.	# People	659,923	80	1234
11	Enrolment in secondary edu.	# People	9,727,510	63	1234
12	# Total Students (Primary+Secondary+Tertiary)	# People	38,831,325	52	1235
13	Enrolment in primary edu.	# People	9,629,078	47	1232
14	# Students per teacher in tertiary edu.	Ratio	58	45	1230
15	# Students per teacher in secondary edu.	Ratio	57	44	1233
16	Enrolment in Primary Edu./Total Pop %.	% People	27	31	1234
17	Enrolment in Secondary Edu./Total Literate Pop.	% People	28	7	1235

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Islamic Population	# People	9,936,734	26	1128
Below than World Average-
1	# Olympic Medals	Count	157	123	1232
2	World Heritage Sites	Count	7	82	1230
3	Christian Population	# People	11,885,917	67	1234

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Islamic Pop./Total Islamic Pop.%	% People	0	26	1130
2	Islamic Pop./Total Pop.%	% People	22	43	1130
Below than World Average-
1	Christian Pop./Total Pop.%	% People	42	111	1232
2	Christian Pop./Total Christian Pop.%	% People	0	67	1231

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Rural Pop. /Total Pop. %	% People	40	33	1128
2	1M+ Cities Ratio ( 1M+ Cities/ # Cities> 100000)		0	34	1129
3	Pop. without Electricity access	# People	3,455,508	9	1126
4	Pop. without Electricity Access / Total Pop.%	% People	14	9	1127
Below than World Average-
1	Pop. with access to Electricity (%)	% People	86	186	1231
2	Urban Population / Total Population % .	% People	60	162	1234
3	# Cities>100000	# Cities	21	117	1232
4	# Cities>500000	# Cities	4	65	1234
5	# Cities>1M	# Cities	2	46	1230
6	# Cities>100000	# Cities	23	89	1235
7	# Cities>300000	# Cities	8	78	1233
8	# Cities>1M	# Cities	1	39	1232
9	# Cities>300000	# Cities	7	68	1234
10	Urban Population	# People	23,726,053	77	1235
11	# Cities>500000	# Cities	5	53	1232
12	Rural Pop.	# People	18,013,759	37	1235

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Population Growth Rate (%)	% People	0	35	1126
2	Births	# People (In Thousands)	681	40	1126
3	Gender Ratio	Ratio of female per male, Country total female/ Country total male	1	113	1127
Below than World Average-
1	Female % of Total Pop.	% People	50	113	1235
2	Density ( Pop/Land Area Ratio)	Density	312	99	1231
3	Male % of Total Pop.	% People	50	82	1234
4	Total Population (2025)	# People (In Thousands)	42,003	59	1231
5	Male Population (2025)	# People (In Thousands)	21,226	59	1231
6	Female Population (2025)	# People (In Thousands)	20,993	59	1234

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Employment in Agri. / Total Labour Force % .	% People	23	54	1128
2	Employment in Agriculture/Total Labour force %.	% People	23	54	1125
Below than World Average-
1	Total Labour Force/Total Pop.	% People	43	165	1233
2	Employment in Services /Total pop.%.	% People	25	153	1230
3	Wage & Salaried Workers / Total Labour Force %	% People	58	148	1232
4	Teachers in primary edu.	# People	357,113	144	1231
5	Employment in services/Total Labour force %.	% People	56	130	1231
6	Employment in Services / Total Labour Force %.	% People	56	133	1233
7	Non-Agri Labour force/Total Labour force %.	% People	76	124	1235
8	Formal Jobs	# People	10,605,934	107	1235
9	Employment in Services	# People	10,251,634	78	1230
10	Employment in Agriculture /Total Pop. %.	% People	9	77	1232
11	Non-Agricultural Labour Force	# People	15,067,127	76	1235
12	Labour Force Participation	# People	14,659,929	69	1232
13	Total Labour Force (2023)	# People	20,409,734	68	1230
14	Unemployment Rate.	% People	7	62	1232
15	Unemployed Labour Force.	# People	1,511,199	56	1231
16	Employment in Agriculture	# People	5,314,003	53	1235

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Corporate Tax Rates in %	Rate	23	60	1127
Below than World Average-
1	GDP Per Capita (USD)	$	30,070	169	1233
2	Import Ban(Number of products)	Count	12	134	1234
3	FDI / Total FDI of the World %.		0	138	1232
4	FDI (millions USD)	Amount	3,115	138	1233
5	GDP as a % of Total GDP	Percent	0	112	1233
6	Exports /Total Exports of the World %.		0	111	1234
7	Import of Goods and Services (in Million $)	Amount	183,299	122	1234
8	Imports/Total Imports of the World %.		0	114	1235
9	GDP (Billions USD)	$ Billions	613	118	1232
10	Export of Goods and Services (in Million $)	Amount	186,399	117	1235
11	Exports/Total GDP of the Country %.		46	105	1235
12	Imports /Total GDP of the Country %.		53	102	1231

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	Gold Produced/Total Gold Produced %.		4	12	1231
2	Tree density.	Density	22,685	151	1235
3	Tree density .	Density	828	139	1232
4	Potatoes Produced /Total Potatoes Produced %	Weight	0	114	1233
5	Potatoes prod.	Tons	2,538,925	119	1235
6	Number of Trees	Count	15,642,617,148	109	1233
7	Honey Produced /Total Honey Produced %	Weight	0	98	1231
8	Honey prod.	Tons	16,211	101	1231
9	Country forest area / Global Forest area %		0	66	1233
10	Forest Area.	Area	21,142,892	67	1234
11	Sugarcane prod.	Tons	52,039,862	64	1235
12	Sugarcane Produced/Total Sugarcane Produced.%	Weight	2	61	1235
13	Rice prod.	Tons	6,981,685	50	1233
14	Rice Produced/Total Rice Produced.%	Weight	0	48	1230
15	Sweet Potatoes prod.	Tons	895,180	40	1235
16	Sweet Potatoes Produced/Total Sweet Potatoes Produced %	Weight	0	39	1235
17	Soyabean Produced/Total Soyabean Produced %	Weight	1	33	1234
18	Soyabean prod.	Tons	3,684,006	34	1231
19	Gold Prod.	Weight	125	12	1232

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	Life Expectancy at Birth, both sexes	Age	73	186	1230
2	Doctors (Per 10,000)	People Per 10,000	20	171	1234
3	Pharmacists (Per 10,000)	People Per 10,000	4	163	1232
4	Dentist (per 10,000)	People per 10000	31	161	1234
5	#Dentists	# People	13,328	146	1235
6	Dentist to doctor ratio	Ratio	3	120	1231
7	Total No. of Doctors	# People	78,648	122	1231
8	Total No. of Pharmacists	# People	19,528	118	1232
9	HIV Infections (Per 1000)	People Per 1,000	0	79	1234

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	Int. Users / Total Pop.%	% People	70	184	1230
2	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total Population	% People	30	170	1230
3	Twitter Users as a % of Total Population	% People	14	168	1230
4	FB Users / Total Pop. %.	% People	26	166	1230
5	Twitter Users as a % of Total Internet Users	% People	15	153	1230
6	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total Internet Users	% People	33	150	1233
7	Twitter Users as a % of Total Twitter Users	% People	0	126	1233
8	Facebook CPC in Rs.	Absolute	5	147	1231
9	FB Users / Total Int. Users %.	% People	33	142	1233
10	Twitter users	# People	3,179,254	128	1230
11	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total LinkedIn Users	% People	0	114	1233
12	LinkedIn users	# People	6,064,509	121	1231
13	Facebook Users as a % of Total facebook Users	% People	0	113	1235
14	Facebook users	# People	7,174,483	115	1233
15	Internet Users	# People	28,408,774	107	1233

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	Military Force/Total Pop. %	% People	1	162	1230
2	Military Force/Total World Military Force %.	% People	0	124	1232
3	Total Military Force	# People	358,465	133	1232
4	Military Budget/Total World Military Budget %.	Percent	0	99	1230
5	Military Budget (in Billion $)	$ Billion	15	101	1230
6	Lawyers Per 100K	People Per 100K	160	49	1233

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	# Phone Numbers /Total Pop. %	Percent	101	126	1231
2	# Mobile phone numbers	Count	40,393,496	59	1235

Burkina Faso Language Details

Sr.	Language	% of people speaking the language in country.
1	Fula	9.37 %
2	Bambara	4.64 %
3	Bobo	1.41 %
4	French	1.25 %
5	Songhay Languages	1 %

Sr.	City	Total City Population (2023)
1	Banfora	130,307
2	Bobo Dioulasso	1,004,880
3	Kaya	136,645
4	Koudougou	178,117
5	Ouagadougou	2,727,785
6	Ouahigouya	138,424