Burkina FasoandMali

c. 1050 · c. 1235

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 →

Mali

c. 1235 — Sundiata Keita founds the Mali Empire on the upper Niger

Dossier →Chronicle →

Shared indicators
42
Domains
9
Crossed events
1
Data through
2026-08-14

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

BFAMLI
  • GDP
    $28 B2025$30 B2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • GDP per capita
    $1,1482025$1,1932025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • GDP growth
    5.3%20255.6%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Inflation
    -0.6%20253.3%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Trade openness
    65.0%202548.8%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded

Society

BFAMLI
  • Population
    24 m202525 m2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Life expectancy
    61.3 yrs202460.7 yrs2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Urban population
    28.9%202532.2%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Fertility rate
    4.120245.52024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Governance

BFAMLI

Health

BFAMLI
  • Health spending
    7.8%20233.8%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Physicians
    0.1520220.192023
    Observed 2022 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Under-5 mortality
    74.9202473.02024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Measles immunisation
    88.0%202472.0%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Education

BFAMLI
  • Adult literacy
    41.6%202335.6%2024
    Observed 2023 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Education spending
    5.3%20234.2%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Primary enrolment
    77.2%202472.8%2023
    Observed 2024 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Secondary enrolment
    30.0%202438.9%2023
    Observed 2024 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Tertiary enrolment
    10.0%20245.1%2015
    Observed 2024 / 2015 · figures compared, never graded

Technology

BFAMLI
  • R&D spending
    0.1%20240.1%2023
    Observed 2024 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Researchers (per million)
    472010262023
    Observed 2010 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Internet users
    28.3%202436.8%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Mobile subscriptions
    11720241122022
    Observed 2024 / 2022 · figures compared, never graded
  • High-tech exports
    1.6%20245.4%2023
    Observed 2024 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded

Geography

BFAMLI
  • Land area
    273,600 km²20231,220,190 km²2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Forest area
    22.2%202310.9%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Agricultural land
    53.4%202335.5%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • CO₂ per capita (t)
    0.320240.32024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Renewable energy
    71.4%202271.1%2022
    Observed 2022 / 2022 · figures compared, never graded

Resources

BFAMLI
  • Resource rents
    20.1%202118.4%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Oil rents
    0.0%20210.0%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Mineral rents
    15.5%202116.2%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Forest rents
    4.7%20212.2%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Electricity access
    34.0%202449.5%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Lithium (mined)
    —9,400 t2025
    Observed — / 2025 · figures compared, never graded

Military

BFAMLI
  • Military burden
    4.7%20244.2%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Defense spending
    $1.0 B2024$929 M2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Armed forces
    11,000202041,0002020
    Observed 2020 / 2020 · figures compared, never graded

Entangled histories

One event in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

  1. December 1985

    Agacher Strip war with Mali

    A brief border conflict, the 'Christmas War', is fought with Mali over the mineral-rich Agacher Strip before regional mediation ends it.

    War & Rupture · from the Burkina Faso chronicle · Sankara's Revolution and the Birth of Burkina Faso · REFS 1 — Thomas Sankara