Burkina Faso World Economy Ranking: 61 stats

Economic indicators provided by The World Bank. Freedom indexes by The Heritage and Cato Institute. Human development data from the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime.

Gross Domestic Product & Income

Stat	Burkina Faso	Rank
GDP	$14.1B	129
GDP growth, 1 year	6%	30
GDP growth, 5-years average	5.3%	28
Population	19.2M	60
GDP per capita	$715	184
GDP per capita growth	3.81%	47
Purchasing Power Parity conversion factor	200.22	40
Price level ratio of PPP conversion factor GDP to market exchange rate	0.36	147
GDP per capita, PPP adjusted	$2k	180
GNI, Atlas method	$13.3B	126
GNI per capita	$670	178
GNI, PPP adjusted	$38.9B	117
GNI per capita, PPP adjusted	$2k	171

Financial system and Human development

Stat	Burkina Faso	Rank
Income Tax Rate	27.5%	76
Corporate Tax Rate	28%	110
Inflation, consumer prices	2%	71
Inflation, GDP deflator	2.4%	84
Unemployment	6.1%	107
Economic Freedom Index	56.7	127
Personal Freedom Index	7.63	67
Human Freedom Index	6.84	93
Property Rights Index	46.9	120
Judical Effectiveness Index	42.6	96
Business Freedom Index	47.6	157
Fiscal Health Index	49.2	136
Labor Freedom Index	52.1	129
Investment Freedom Index	65	79
Financial Freedom Index	40	119
Trade Freedom Index	61.8	151
Monetary Freedom Index	82.4	27
Government Spending Index	77	69
Tax Burden Index	81.3	64
Government Integrity Index	34.1	108
Corruption Perceptions Index	41	99
Life expectancy at birth, years	60.8	178
Suicide mortality rate, per 100,000 people	7.7	100
Mortality caused by road traffic injury, per 100,000 people	30.5	186
Intentional homicides, per 100,000 people	1.3	51
International tourism, number of arrivals	144k	161

Government debt & reserves

Stat	Burkina Faso	Rank
Central government debt, % of GDP	43%	114
External debt stocks, % of GNI	23.4%	102
External debt stocks	$3.3B	84
Short-term debt, % of total reserves	N/A	-
Total debt service, % of exports and primary income	3.5%	105
Adjusted net savings including particulate emission damage, % of GNI	-9%	143
Gross savings, % of GDP	19.1%	104
Gross capital formation, % of GDP	24.7%	72
Total reserves including gold	N/A	-
Foreign direct investment net inflows	$480M	108

Exports, imports and economic structure

Stat	Burkina Faso	Rank
Exports of goods and services, % of GDP	30.8%	116
Imports of goods and services, % of GDP	37.2%	117
Current account balance (balance of payments)	-$894.1M	104
Revenue excluding grants, % of GDP	18.9%	103
Grants excluding technical cooperation, BoP	$720.7M	34
Personal remittances received	$455.7M	108
Industry including construction value added, % of GDP	19.5%	134
Agriculture, forestry and fishing value added, % of GDP	28%	19
Charges for the use of intellectual property, payments BoP	$438k	150
Charges for the use of intellectual property, receipts BoP	$725k	110
Expense, % of GDP	19.5%	104
Government Expenditure, % of GDP	27.7%	111