Burkina FasoandGhana

c. 1050 · 6 March 1957

Two sourced records set beside each other — the figures each nation publishes, and the events each chronicle records of the other. Compared, never graded.

Burkina Faso

c. 1050 — Oubri founds the Ouagadougou dynasty of the Mossi

Dossier →Chronicle →

Ghana

6 March 1957 — The Gold Coast is proclaimed independent as Ghana

Dossier →Chronicle →

Shared indicators
42
Domains
9
Crossed events
0
Data through
2026-08-22

The figures, side by side

Each figure is the same observation, with the same source, as on the two dossiers. Every value shows the year it was observed — vintages differ by indicator and nation. A “—” is an absence in the source data, never a zero. Metric names link to the world ranking; values open the figure on its own dossier.

Economy

BFAGHA
  • GDP
    $28 B2025$114 B2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • GDP per capita
    $1,1482025$3,2572025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • GDP growth
    5.3%20256.0%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Inflation
    -0.6%202514.2%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Trade openness
    65.0%202569.0%2024
    Observed 2025 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Society

BFAGHA
  • Population
    24 m202535 m2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Life expectancy
    61.3 yrs202465.7 yrs2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Urban population
    28.9%202558.9%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Fertility rate
    4.120243.32024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Governance

BFAGHA

Health

BFAGHA
  • Health spending
    7.8%20232.9%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Physicians
    0.1520220.272023
    Observed 2022 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Under-5 mortality
    74.9202435.92024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Measles immunisation
    88.0%202490.0%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Safe drinking water
    —42.9%2024
    Observed — / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Education

BFAGHA
  • Adult literacy
    41.6%202376.5%2021
    Observed 2023 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Education spending
    5.3%20232.9%2022
    Observed 2023 / 2022 · figures compared, never graded
  • Primary enrolment
    77.2%2024101.0%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Secondary enrolment
    30.0%202475.7%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Tertiary enrolment
    10.0%202421.3%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Technology

BFAGHA
  • R&D spending
    0.1%20240.4%2010
    Observed 2024 / 2010 · figures compared, never graded
  • Researchers (per million)
    472010872015
    Observed 2010 / 2015 · figures compared, never graded
  • Internet users
    28.3%202472.2%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Mobile subscriptions
    11720241142024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • High-tech exports
    1.6%20242.1%2023
    Observed 2024 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded

Geography

BFAGHA
  • Land area
    273,600 km²2023227,533 km²2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Forest area
    22.2%202335.2%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Agricultural land
    53.4%202355.4%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • CO₂ per capita (t)
    0.320240.72024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Renewable energy
    71.4%202239.0%2021
    Observed 2022 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded

Resources

BFAGHA
  • Resource rents
    20.1%202113.3%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Oil rents
    0.0%20214.1%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Mineral rents
    15.5%20215.2%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Forest rents
    4.7%20213.8%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Electricity access
    34.0%202491.9%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Gold (mined)
    —150 t2025
    Observed — / 2025 · figures compared, never graded

Military

BFAGHA
  • Military burden
    4.7%20240.4%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Defense spending
    $1.0 B2024$269 M2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Armed forces
    11,000202016,0002020
    Observed 2020 / 2020 · figures compared, never graded

Entangled histories

Neither nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — across both archives, no recorded event crosses between them. That is a fact about the two records as they stand, not a gap filled here: this page reports what the archives hold, and holds nothing they do not.