Country comparison: Burkina Faso / France

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

General information

	Burkina Faso	France
Region:	Western Africa	Western Europe
Area:	274,220 km²	549,087 km²
National language:	French	French
Government form:	Presidential republic	Semi-presidential republic
Independent since:	1960 AD	843 AD
Capital:	Ouagadougou	Paris

Population

Details for Burkina Faso and France

	Burkina Faso	France
Population:	22,101,000	67,750,000
Inhabitants/km²:	80.6	123.4
Life expectancy males:	Ø 58 years	Ø 79 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 62 years	Ø 85 years
Average age:	Ø 17.9 years	Ø 41.7 years
Birth rate:	36.09 ‰	10.90 ‰
Death rate:	8.81 ‰	9.90 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.61 ‰	1.06 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Burkina Faso	France
Political stability:	37	74
Civil rights:	41	85
Health:	1	92
Climate:	46	41
Cost of Living:	60	30
Popularity:	38	71

Economy

Details for Burkina Faso and France

	Burkina Faso	France
Currency:	West African franc	euro (1 EUR =100 Cent)
Unemployment rate:	5.2 %	7.9 %
Inflation rate:	3.65 %	1.64 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	33.95 %	96.23 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	41.30 %	60.70 %
Average income:	830 US$	44,160 US$
Corruption index:	58 (bad)	28 (good)

	BFA: total	per 1000 inh.	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	19,738 M US$	0.89 M US$	2,957,880 M US$	43.66 M US$
Gross national product:	18,393 M US$	0.83 M US$	2,991,553 M US$	44.16 M US$
Exported goods:	5,356 M US$	0.24 M US$	920,864 M US$	13.59 M US$
Imported goods:	4,779 M US$	0.22 M US$	957,717 M US$	14.14 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Burkina Faso and France

	BFA: total	per 1000 inh.	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	15,304 km	0.69 km	1,053,215 km	15.55 km
Railways:	518 km	0.02 km	29,640 km	0.44 km
Passenger airports:	2	0.0001	61	0.0009

Energy balance

Details for Burkina Faso and France

	BFA: total	per 1000 inh.	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	1.55 bn kWh	70,178.83 kWh	450.80 bn kWh	6.65 m kWh
Energy production:	990.00 m kWh	44,795.00 kWh	529.10 bn kWh	7.81 m kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	61.41 bn kWh	906,425.59 kWh
Energy imports:	630.00 m kWh	28,505.91 kWh	19.90 bn kWh	293,728.53 kWh
CO2 emissions:	5.00 m t	226.24 t	300.52 m t	4,435.74 t

Telecommunication

Details for Burkina Faso and France

	Burkina Faso	France
International dialing:	+226	+33
Internet domain:	.bf	.fr

	BFA total	BFA per 1000 inh.	FRA total	FRA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	81,374	4	37,759,000	557
Mobile cellulars:	24,678,315	1117	72,751,000	1074
Internet server:	1,795	0	17,266,000	255
Internet users:	4,862,150	220	58,329,375	861
Broadband Internet:	16,291	1	30,627,000	452

Healthcare system

Details for Burkina Faso and France

	Burkina Faso	France
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	0.40	5.91
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.06	3.23
Diabetes:	7.3 %	4.8 %
HIV:	0.12 %	0.17 %
Tuberculosis:	0.45 ‰	0.08 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	82.0 %	37.0 %
Smokers:	14.3 %	33.4 %

Climate

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

	Burkina Faso	France
Daytime temperatures:	35.4 °C	16.9 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	22.6 °C	7.9 °C
Rel. humidity:	51 %	78 %
Rain days:	5.3	8.9
Sunshine hours per day:	8.2	5.5

Native languages

	Burkina Faso	France
French:	1.3 %	93.6 %
Mossi:	50.2 %	n/a
Fula:	9.7 %	n/a
Gourmanche:	5.7 %	n/a
Bambara:	4.8 %	n/a
Bissa:	3.2 %	n/a
Dyula:	2.6 %	n/a
Arabic:	n/a	2.5 %
Bwamu:	2.1 %	n/a
Dagara:	2.0 %	n/a
San:	1.9 %	n/a
Lobiri:	1.8 %	n/a
Lyele:	1.7 %	n/a
Portuguese:	n/a	1.2 %
Italian:	n/a	0.4 %
Spanish:	n/a	0.4 %
Turkish:	n/a	0.4 %
other:	13.0 %	1.5 %

Religions

	Burkina Faso	France
Christianity:	23.2 %	64.0 %
Islam:	60.5 %	8.0 %
Nondenominational:	0.4 %	24.0 %
Animism:	15.3 %	n/a
Jewry:	n/a	0.7 %
Buddhism:	n/a	0.6 %
other:	0.6 %	2.7 %

Data inventory and updates

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