Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso in numbers
37 measures of Burkina Faso from 1800 to 2025, each charted year by year with where it comes from. Where a source publishes projections, they run on to 2100, drawn apart from the estimates.
Every measure
Health
People
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spending3.3% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$844M in 2025
- Military spending per person$37 in 2025
- Military share of state spending13.2% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel11,000 people in 2020
- National power0.09% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.12% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports34 million TIV in 2025
Climate
Technology and environment
Compare Burkina Faso with…
- Burkina Faso vs Nigeria
- Burkina Faso vs Ethiopia
- Burkina Faso vs Congo - Kinshasa
- Burkina Faso vs Tanzania
- Burkina Faso vs South Africa
- Burkina Faso vs Kenya
- Burkina Faso vs Sudan
- Burkina Faso vs Uganda
- Burkina Faso vs Angola
- Burkina Faso vs Mozambique
- Burkina Faso vs Ghana
- Burkina Faso vs Madagascar
- Burkina Faso vs Côte d’Ivoire
- Burkina Faso vs Cameroon
- Burkina Faso vs Niger
- Burkina Faso vs Mali
- Burkina Faso vs Malawi
- Burkina Faso vs Zambia
- Burkina Faso vs Chad
- Burkina Faso vs Somalia
- Burkina Faso vs Senegal
- Burkina Faso vs Zimbabwe
- Burkina Faso vs Guinea
- Burkina Faso vs Benin
- Burkina Faso vs Rwanda
- Burkina Faso vs Burundi
- Burkina Faso vs South Sudan
- Burkina Faso vs Togo
Good to know
- Sources: UN, Gapminder and UN IGME, IHME, World Bank, IMF, UNESCO, Our World in Data, V-Dem, UCDP, SIPRI, IISS, Correlates of War, ERA5, CMIP6, EDGAR, ITU and FAO. Each measure’s page names its own and what it counts.
- Values are drawn on today’s borders. Years without a published value are left empty, never filled in.
- 2 measures are climate model output, marked as modelled: not measurements.
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