Burkina Faso

Capital city: Ouagadougou
Languages: French (official); native African languages belonging to the Sudanic family (other)

Economic profile
Monetary unit: West African CFA franc (1CFAfr = $0.001874)¹
GDP per capita: $1 313²
GDP composition by sector:
Agriculture: 34.7%³
Industry: 23.3%³
Services: 42%³
GDP growth rate: 5.1%⁴
Consumer price inflation: 2.8%⁵
Industries: Cotton lint, beverages, agricultural processing, soap, cigarettes, textiles, gold³
Exports of goods and nonfactor services: Cotton, not carded or combed (37.4%); black tea and decaffeinated (70.2%); other partly fermented tea (13.1%)⁶
Import commodities: Capital goods, foodstuffs, petroleum³
Reserves (excluding gold, in million dollars): 843.3⁷
Foreign direct investment (in million dollars): 37⁸
 

Budget:
Government revenue, including grants (as percentage of GDP): 17.2%⁹
Government expenditure and net lending: 25.3%⁹
 

Social profile
Population (in thousands): 35 980¹⁰
Population growth: 2.9%¹⁰
Life expectancy at birth (in years): 55.4¹¹
Adult literacy (people over 15): 28.7%¹²
School enrolment primary (total gross enrolment): 79.4%¹³
School enrolment secondary (total gross enrolment): 22.6%¹³
School enrolment tertiary: 4%¹⁴
Unemployment: 77%³
Number of people living with HIV/Aids: 1.2%¹⁵

¹ http:// www.exchangerate.com
² African Economic Outlook. Basic indicators (2011).
³ Central Intelligence Agency. World Factbook: Economy (2011).

⁴ African Economic Outlook. Real GDP growth rates (2011).
⁵ African Economic Outlook. Monetary indicators: inflation (2011).

⁶ African Economic Outlook. Exports (2010).
⁷ African Economic Outlook. Monetary indicators: reserves (2011).
⁸ African Economic Outlook. Foreign direct investment (2010).
⁹ African Economic Outlook. Public finances (2011).

¹⁰African Economic Outlook. Demographic indicator (2010).

¹¹ African Economic Outlook. Basic health indicators (2011).
¹² African Economic Outlook. Basic education indicators (2009).
¹³ African Economic Outlook. School enrolment (2011).

¹⁴ World Bank. School enrolment tertiary (2010 to 2011).

¹⁵ African Economic Outlook. Major diseases (2009).