Country comparison: Burkina Faso / Ivory Coast

This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast. There, we provide many explanations and details per country that go far beyond this comparison.

General information

	Burkina Faso	Ivory Coast
Region:	Western Africa	Western Africa
Area:	274,220 km²	322,460 km²
National language:	French	French
Government form:	Presidential republic	Presidential republic
Independent since:	1960 AD	1960 AD
Capital:	Ouagadougou	Yamoussoukro

Population

Details for Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast

	Burkina Faso	Ivory Coast
Population:	22,101,000	27,478,000
Inhabitants/km²:	80.6	85.2
Life expectancy males:	Ø 58 years	Ø 58 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 62 years	Ø 60 years
Average age:	Ø 17.9 years	Ø 20.3 years
Birth rate:	36.09 ‰	34.20 ‰
Death rate:	8.81 ‰	8.82 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.61 ‰	1.18 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
See also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life

	Burkina Faso	Ivory Coast
Political stability:	37	49
Civil rights:	41	36
Health:	1	11
Climate:	46	53
Cost of Living:	60	50
Popularity:	38	37

Economy

Details for Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast

	Burkina Faso	Ivory Coast
Currency:	West African franc	West African franc
Unemployment rate:	5.2 %	2.8 %
Inflation rate:	3.65 %	4.09 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	33.95 %	42.67 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	41.30 %	50.10 %
Average income:	830 US$	2,420 US$
Corruption index:	58 (bad)	63 (bad)

	BFA: total	per 1000 inh.	CIV: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	19,738 M US$	0.89 M US$	70,043 M US$	2.55 M US$
Gross national product:	18,393 M US$	0.83 M US$	66,460 M US$	2.42 M US$
Exported goods:	5,356 M US$	0.24 M US$	13,232 M US$	0.48 M US$
Imported goods:	4,779 M US$	0.22 M US$	12,660 M US$	0.46 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast

	BFA: total	per 1000 inh.	CIV: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	15,304 km	0.69 km	81,996 km	2.98 km
Railways:	518 km	0.02 km	660 km	0.02 km
Passenger airports:	2	0.0001	2	0.0001

Energy balance

Details for Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast

	BFA: total	per 1000 inh.	CIV: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	1.55 bn kWh	70,178.83 kWh	6.25 bn kWh	227,270.67 kWh
Energy production:	990.00 m kWh	44,795.00 kWh	9.73 bn kWh	354,098.25 kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	872.00 m kWh	31,734.19 kWh
Energy imports:	630.00 m kWh	28,505.91 kWh	19.00 m kWh	691.46 kWh
CO2 emissions:	5.00 m t	226.24 t	10.83 m t	394.13 t

Telecommunication

Details for Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast

	Burkina Faso	Ivory Coast
International dialing:	+226	+225
Internet domain:	.bf	.ci

	BFA total	BFA per 1000 inh.	CIV total	CIV per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	81,374	4	265,513	10
Mobile cellulars:	24,678,315	1117	44,561,505	1622
Internet server:	1,795	0	9,115	0
Internet users:	4,862,150	220	9,971,569	363
Broadband Internet:	16,291	1	335,041	12

Healthcare system

Details for Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast

	Burkina Faso	Ivory Coast
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	0.40	0.40
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.06	0.23
Diabetes:	7.3 %	2.4 %
Malaria:	398.7 %	330.6 %
HIV:	0.12 %	0.33 %
Tuberculosis:	0.45 ‰	1.28 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	82.0 %	84.0 %
Smokers:	14.3 %	9.4 %

Climate

We also provide a more detailed climate comparison of both countries.
The data for each country can be found here: Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast

	Burkina Faso	Ivory Coast
Daytime temperatures:	35.4 °C	32.2 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	22.6 °C	22.1 °C
Rel. humidity:	51 %	78 %
Rain days:	5.3	7.9
Sunshine hours per day:	8.2	6.3

Native languages

	Burkina Faso	Ivory Coast
Mossi:	50.2 %	n/a
Akan:	n/a	30.0 %
Gur:	n/a	11.7 %
Malinke:	n/a	11.4 %
Kru:	n/a	10.5 %
Fula:	9.7 %	n/a
Bambara:	4.8 %	8.4 %
South-Mande:	n/a	7.7 %
Gourmanche:	5.7 %	n/a
Bissa:	3.2 %	n/a
Dyula:	2.6 %	n/a
Bwamu:	2.1 %	n/a
French:	1.3 %	2.1 %
Dagara:	2.0 %	n/a
San:	1.9 %	n/a
Lobiri:	1.8 %	n/a
Lyele:	1.7 %	n/a
other:	13.0 %	18.2 %

Religions

	Burkina Faso	Ivory Coast
Islam:	60.5 %	38.6 %
Christianity:	23.2 %	32.8 %
Nondenominational:	0.4 %	16.7 %
Animism:	15.3 %	n/a
Native religions:	n/a	11.9 %
other:	0.6 %	0.0 %

Data inventory and updates

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