International Rankings of Burkina Faso 2024, country comparisons

This table lists the international rankings of Burkina Faso, in all categories that are published in the CIA World Factbook, and those that we derived from them. Additional international rankings of Burkina Faso, can be found in the main country ranks menu.
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Ranked Data	Rank	Value	Year
Communications
Broadband - fixed subscriptions - subscriptions per 100 inhabitants	60	0.10	2020
Broadband - fixed subscriptions - total	172	13979	2020
Internet users - percent of population	101	22.00 %	2021
Internet users - total	97	4.840 million	2021
Telephones - fixed lines - total subscriptions	145	81374	2021
Telephones - mobile cellular - subscriptions per 100 inhabitants	49	112.00	2021
Telephones - mobile cellular - total subscriptions	53	24.678 million	2021
Economy
Budget - expenditures	127	3.757 billion US Dollars	2019
Budget - revenues	131	3.212 billion US Dollars	2019
Budget surplus (+) or deficit (-)	93	7.90 % of GDP	N/A
Current account balance	57	743.232 million US Dollars	2020
Debt - external	145	3.056 billion US Dollars	2017
Exchange rates	28	554.53	N/A
Exports	127	5.356 billion US Dollars	2020
GDP (official exchange rate)	131	14.271 billion US Dollars	2018
GDP - composition by end use - exports of goods and services	123	28.40 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by end use - government consumption	33	23.90 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by end use - household consumption	126	56.50 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by end use - imports of goods and services	61	34.40 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by end use - investment in fixed capital	51	24.60 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by end use - investment in inventories	46	1.00 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by sector of origin - agriculture	16	31.00 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by sector of origin - industry	97	23.90 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by sector of origin - services	161	44.90 % of GDP	2017
Gini Index coefficient - distribution of family income	18	47 %	2018
Household income or consumption by percentage share - highest 10%	46	32.20 % share of income accruing to lowest and highest 10% of population	2009
Household income or consumption by percentage share - lowest 10%	22	2.90 % share of income accruing to lowest and highest 10% of population	N/A
Imports	146	4.779 billion US Dollars	2020
Industrial production growth rate	38	8.73 %	2021
Inflation rate (consumer prices)	90	3.65 %	2021
Labor force	68	8.016 million US Dollars	2021
Population below poverty line	34	41 %	2018
Public debt	53	72.53 % of GDP	2020
Real GDP (purchasing power parity)	116	48.175 billion US Dollars	2021
Real GDP growth rate	58	6.91 %	2021
Real GDP per capita	161	2200 US Dollars	2021
Remittances	84	3	2020
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold	190	49.000 million US Dollars	2017
Taxes and other revenues	155	13.28 % of GDP	N/A
Unemployment rate	148	4.76 %	2021
Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24) - female	130	8.00 %	N/A
Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24) - male	129	7.50 %	N/A
Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24) - total	130	7.70 %	2021
Energy
Carbon dioxide emissions - from petroleum and other liquids	123	4.444 million metric tonnes of CO2	2019
Carbon dioxide emissions - total	140	4.444 million	2019
Electricity - consumption	147	2.034 billion kWh	2019
Electricity - imports	82	600.000 million kWh	2019
Electricity - installed generating capacity	154	392000 kWh	2020
Electricity - transmission/distribution losses	140	248.000 million kWh	2019
Electricity access - electrification - rural areas	80	5	2014
Electricity access - electrification - total population	76	19	2021
Electricity access - electrification - urban areas	52	68	2021
Electricity access - population without electricity	12	16.000 million	2020
Electricity generation sources - biomass and waste	53	0.40 %	2020
Electricity generation sources - fossil fuels	38	89.40 %	2020
Electricity generation sources - hydroelectricity	108	6.90 %	2020
Electricity generation sources - solar	38	3.30 %	2020
Energy consumption per capita	178	3.230 million Btu/person	2019
Petroleum - refined petroleum consumption	123	30800 bbl/day	2019
Refined petroleum products - imports	112	23580 bbl/day	2015
Environment
Air pollutants - carbon dioxide emissions	132	3 megatons	2016
Air pollutants - methane emissions	80	13 megatons	2020
Air pollutants - particulate matter emissions	22	41 micrograms per cubic meter	2019
Land use - agricultural land	76	44	2018
Land use - arable land	47	22	2018
Land use - forest	125	19	2018
Land use - permanent crops	4	37	2018
Land use - permanent pasture	71	22	2018
Revenue from forest resources	14	5 % of GDP	2018
Total renewable water resources	130	13.500 billion cubic meters	2020
Total water withdrawal - agricultural	103	420.000 million cubic meters	2020
Total water withdrawal - industrial	94	20.000 million cubic meters	2020
Total water withdrawal - municipal	78	380.000 million cubic meters	2020
Urbanization - rate of urbanization	5	4.75	N/A
Urbanization - urban population	153	33	2023
Geography
Area - land	76	273800 sq km	N/A
Area - total	78	274200 sq km	N/A
Area - water	121	400 sq km	N/A
Elevation - highest point	147	749 meters	N/A
Elevation - mean elevation	109	297 meters	N/A
Irrigated land	108	550 sq km	2016
Land boundaries - total	57	3611 km	N/A
Land use - agricultural land	76	44	2018
Land use - arable land	47	22	2018
Land use - forest	125	19	2018
Land use - permanent crops	4	37	2018
Land use - permanent pasture	71	22	2018
Population Density	129	82.14 Persons per sq km	N/A
Military
Military expenditures	21	3 % of GDP	2022
Population
Alcohol consumption per capita - beer	105	1 liters of pure alcohol	2019
Alcohol consumption per capita - other alcohols	3	6 liters of pure alcohol	2019
Alcohol consumption per capita - total	52	7 liters of pure alcohol	2019
Birth rate	21	32.70 births/1,000 population	2023
Children under the age of 5 years underweight	20	18 %	2021
Contraceptive prevalence rate	89	35.30 %	2021
Current health expenditure	51	7 % of GDP	2020
Currently married women (ages 15-49)	6	74 %	2023
Death rate	53	7.50 deaths/1,000 population	2023
Dependency ratios - elderly dependency ratio	145	4.80 %	N/A
Dependency ratios - potential support ratio	12	20.90 %	2021
Dependency ratios - total dependency ratio	12	87.40 %	N/A
Dependency ratios - youth dependency ratio	10	82.60 %	N/A
Drinking water source - improved	41	95 % of population	N/A
Drinking water source - rural	33	29 % of population	N/A
Drinking water source - total	22	22 % of population	2020
Drinking water source - unimproved	24	5 % of population	N/A
Education expenditures	31	6 % of GDP	2020
Gross reproduction rate	18	2.04 %	2023
Infant mortality rate - female	20	43.80 deaths/1,000 live births	N/A
Infant mortality rate - male	24	52.40 deaths/1,000 live births	N/A
Infant mortality rate - total	21	48.20 deaths/1,000 live births	2023
Life expectancy at birth - female	129	66 years	N/A
Life expectancy at birth - male	131	62 years	N/A
Life expectancy at birth - total population	130	64 years	2023
Literacy - definition	2	15	N/A
Literacy - female	112	38 %	2021
Literacy - male	93	55 %	N/A
Literacy - total population	102	46 %	N/A
Maternal mortality ratio	33	264.00 deaths/100,000 live births	2020
Median age - female	158	19 years	N/A
Median age - male	159	18 years	N/A
Median age - total	149	19 years	2023
Mother's mean age at first birth	75	20	2021
Net migration rate	64	0.60 migrant(s)/1,000 population	N/A
Obesity - adult prevalence rate	131	5.60 %	2016
Physicians density	152	0.09 physicians/1,000 population	2019
Population	60	22.489 million	2023
Population growth rate	20	2.46 %	2023
Sanitation facility access - improved	47	91 % of population	N/A
Sanitation facility access - rural	30	62 % of population	N/A
Sanitation facility access - total	24	46 % of population	2020
Sanitation facility access - unimproved	48	9 % of population	N/A
Sex ratio - 0-14 years	13	1.03 male(s)/female	N/A
Sex ratio - 15-64 years	31	0.92 male(s)/female	N/A
Sex ratio - 65 years and over	39	0.74 male(s)/female	N/A
Sex ratio - at birth	11	1.03 male(s)/female	N/A
Sex ratio - total population	23	0.96 male(s)/female	N/A
Total fertility rate	23	4.14 children born/woman	2023
Urbanization - rate of urbanization	5	4.75	N/A
Urbanization - urban population	153	33	2023
Transportation
Airports	82	49	2024
National air transport system - annual freight traffic on registered air carriers	129	100000	2018
National air transport system - annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers	136	151531	2018
National air transport system - inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers	99	3.00	N/A
National air transport system - number of registered air carriers	27	1	2020
Railways - narrow gauge	40	622	2014
Railways - total	77	622 km	2014
Roadways - paved	71	3642 km	2014
Roadways - total	76	15304 km	2017

*CALCULATED FIGURES are those that we calculated from data presented by the CIA World Factbook. For example, we calculated population density by dividing the total population by the land area, the electricity consumption per capita by dividing electricity consumption by the total population, etc.

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