Burkina FasoandNiger

c. 1050 · 3 August 1960

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 →

Niger

3 August 1960 — Independence of the Republic of Niger

Dossier →Chronicle →

Shared indicators
41
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

BFANER
  • GDP
    $28 B2025$22 B2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • GDP per capita
    $1,1482025$7752025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • GDP growth
    5.3%20257.0%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Inflation
    -0.6%2025-4.5%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Trade openness
    65.0%202533.9%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded

Society

BFANER
  • Population
    24 m202528 m2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Life expectancy
    61.3 yrs202461.4 yrs2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Urban population
    28.9%202518.4%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Fertility rate
    4.120245.92024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Governance

BFANER

Health

BFANER
  • Health spending
    7.8%20234.0%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Physicians
    0.1520220.042023
    Observed 2022 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Under-5 mortality
    74.92024110.72024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Measles immunisation
    88.0%202481.0%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Education

BFANER
  • Adult literacy
    41.6%202335.6%2022
    Observed 2023 / 2022 · figures compared, never graded
  • Education spending
    5.3%20234.1%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Primary enrolment
    77.2%202464.7%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Secondary enrolment
    30.0%202419.9%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Tertiary enrolment
    10.0%20244.2%2019
    Observed 2024 / 2019 · figures compared, never graded

Technology

BFANER
  • R&D spending
    0.1%2024—
    Observed 2024 / — · figures compared, never graded
  • Researchers (per million)
    472010272013
    Observed 2010 / 2013 · figures compared, never graded
  • Internet users
    28.3%202415.6%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Mobile subscriptions
    1172024612024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • High-tech exports
    1.6%20248.6%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Geography

BFANER
  • Land area
    273,600 km²20231,266,700 km²2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Forest area
    22.2%20230.8%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Agricultural land
    53.4%202336.8%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • CO₂ per capita (t)
    0.320240.12024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Renewable energy
    71.4%202279.6%2021
    Observed 2022 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded

Resources

BFANER
  • Resource rents
    20.1%20216.4%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Oil rents
    0.0%20210.6%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Mineral rents
    15.5%20210.8%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Forest rents
    4.7%20214.9%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Electricity access
    34.0%202421.3%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Military

BFANER
  • Military burden
    4.7%20242.2%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Defense spending
    $1.0 B2024$436 M2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Armed forces
    11,000202010,0002020
    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. 5 September 1932

    Upper Volta partitioned

    The colony is dismembered for economic reasons and divided among Côte d'Ivoire, French Sudan and Niger.

    Colonisation · from the Burkina Faso chronicle · Conquest and the Colony of Upper Volta · REFS 2 — French Upper Volta, Background Notes: Burkina Faso