Demographics of Burkina Faso

Total Fertility Rate (TFR) (Wanted Fertility Rate) and Crude Birth Rate (CBR):[4][5] [6] [7][8]

Fertility data as of 2013 (DHS Program):[9]

Burkina Faso has a young age structure – the result of declining mortality combined with steady high fertility – and continues to experience rapid population growth, which is putting increasing pressure on the country's limited arable land. More than 65% of the population is under the age of 25, and the population is growing at 3% annually. Mortality rates, especially those of infants and children, have decreased because of improved health care, hygiene, and sanitation, but women continue to have an average of almost 6 children. Even if fertility were substantially reduced, today's large cohort entering their reproductive years would sustain high population growth for the foreseeable future. Only about a third of the population is literate and unemployment is widespread, dampening the economic prospects of Burkina Faso's large working-age population.[12]

20,107,509 (July 2017 est.)

Note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected

Pyramid population of Burkina Faso in 2017

0-14 years: 44.28% (male 4,434,908 /female 4,307,438)

15-24 years: 20.19% (male 1,980,755 /female 2,004,763)

25-54 years: 28.82% (male 2,639,235 /female 3,051,333)

55-64 years: 3.55% (male 304,642 /female 396,072)

65 years and over: 3.16% (male 273,031 /female 350,538) (2018 est.)

0-14 years: 44.88% (male 4,519,960/female 4,503,937)

15-24 years: 20.07% (male 2,024,501/female 2,012,053)

25-54 years: 29.42% (male 2,999,941/female 2,915,264)

55-64 years: 3.2% (male 284,374/female 359,159)

65 years and over: 2.43% (male 181,996/female 306,324) (2017 est.)

total: 17.4 years Country comparison to the world: 218th

male: 16.6 years

female: 18.2 years (2018 est.)

Total: 17.3 years

Male: 17.1 years

Female: 17.4 years (2017 est.)

2.76% (2018 est.) Country comparison to the world: 12th

3% (2017 est.)

36.9 births/1,000 population (2018 est.) Country comparison to the world: 14th

8.7 deaths/1,000 population (2018 est.) Country comparison to the world: 72nd

0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2017 est.) Country comparison to the world: 76th

19.4 years (2010 est.)

note: median age at first birth among women 25-29

4.77 children born/woman (2018 est.) Country comparison to the world: 19th

25.4% (2016/17)

urban population: 29.4% of total population (2018)

rate of urbanization: 4.99% annual rate of change (2015-20 est.)

At birth: 1.03 male(s)/female

Under 15 years: 1.01 male(s)/female

15-64 years: 0.99 male(s)/female

65 years and over: 0.65 male(s)/female

Total population: 0.99 male(s)/female (2009 est.)

A girl from Burkina Faso

total population: 61.8 years (2018 est.)

male: 60.1 years (2018 est.)

female: 63.6 years (2018 est.)

Adult prevalence rate: 1.6% (2007 est.)

People living with HIV/AIDS: 130,000 (2007 est.)

Deaths: 9,200 (2007 est.)

Degree of risk: very high

Food or waterborne diseases: bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever

Vectorborne disease: malaria and yellow fever

Water contact disease: schistosomiasis

Respiratory disease: meningococcal meningitis

Animal contact diseases: rabies (2009)

Noun: Burkinabé (singular and plural)

Adjective: Burkinabé

Bobo men in Bobo-Dioulasso

Mossi [13] 52.5%, Fulani [13] 8.4%, Gurma [13] 6.8%, Bobo [13] 4.8%, Gurunsi [13] 4.5%, Senufo [13] 4.4%, Bissa [13] 3.9%, Lobi [13] 2.5%, Dagara [13] 2.4%, Tuareg [13]/Ikelan [13] 1.9%, Dioula [13] 0.8%, Unspecified[13] /No answer [13] 0.1%, Other[13] 7% (2010 est.)

Islam[13] 61.6%, Roman Catholic[13] 23.2%, Traditional[13]/Animist[13] 7.3%, Protestant[13] 6.7%, Other/No Answer[13] 0.2%, None[13] 0.9% (2010 est.)

French[13] (official), native African languages belonging to Sudanic family spoken by 90% of the population [13]

Definition: age 15 and over can read and write

Total population: 36%

Male: 43%

Female: 29.3% (2015 est.)

In 2018, an estimated 82,000 people in the country were living under "modern slavery" according to the Global Slavery Index.[14] News reports also indicate that "most child slaves on cocoa farms (Ivory Coast and Ghana) come from Mali and Burkina Faso, two of the poorest nations on Earth. The children, some as young as ten, are sent by their families or trafficked by agents with the promise of money. They are made to work long hours for little or no money."[15]

4.2% of GDP (2015)