Burkina Faso

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This page was generated on 13 September 2026 at 14:14 UTC. The bundled facts on it were retrieved between 13 July 2026 and 8 August 2026. Aletheia's source record for emergency numbers records no retrieval date, so it is not covered by that range.

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Country outlines on Aletheia come from Natural Earth's 1:10-million public-domain boundary set, made by volunteer cartographers and supported by NACIS. Where a border is disputed, the line drawn is one cartographic convention among the competing claims — not a settled fact, and not Aletheia taking a side. Disputes we can source are listed rather than hidden inside the outline.

Locator map of Burkina Faso. Burkina Faso is filled; surrounding countries are drawn in a dimmer tone and nothing is hidden behind them. No contested area from this source overlaps it. View spans 6.2°W to 3.1°E and 8.9°N to 15.6°N. Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m.

Burkina Faso is filled. The 8 other countries reaching this view are drawn in a dimmer tone — dimmed, not hidden. Unpainted ground is where no boundary in this dataset falls: open water, or land none of them claims.

Nothing is hatched because no disputed area in this source overlaps Burkina Faso. That is not a finding that none exists — the source says plainly that its list is not exhaustive.

Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m. Disputed areas: Natural Earth (public domain). Equirectangular projection, standard parallel 12.2°N — distances and areas away from that parallel are stretched. View: 6.2°W–3.1°E, 8.9°N–15.6°N.

Disputed areas

none listedNo disputed area in this source overlaps Burkina Faso. That is not a finding that none exists — the source says plainly that its list is not exhaustive.

  1. News sources

    3 sources from Burkina Fasoin Aletheia’s registry. Coverage here is covered.

    • Sidwaya
    • Le Pays
    • L'Économiste du Faso

    sources not yet assessed · state-affiliated source present

  2. Official alerts

    An official alerting source is connected for Burkina Faso: ANAM (Burkina Faso).

    This says a source is connected — not whether any warning is in force right now. Open Alerts for that.

  3. National legislature

    National Assembly of Burkina Faso ↗

    Wikidata P856 · link checked and reachable

  4. Local time

    One time zone.

    The current time needs JavaScript, so it is not shown here rather than shown wrong.

  5. Conditions at the capital

    Right now in Ouagadougou

    32°C / 90°FClearwind 5 km/h / 3 mph

    Checked 14 minutes ago

    Conditions at the capital, not across the country.

    Weather from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)

    Ouagadougou, 2026-09-13Sunrise 5:55 AM · sunset 6:08 PM12h 13m of daylightWaxing crescent, 4% lit

  6. At a glance

    ISO code
    BFAuncited
    Driving side
    rightcited
    Mains voltage
    220 Vcited
    Capital
    Ouagadougouuncited
    Official languages
    Bissa, Dioula, Moorécited
    Plug types
    Type C (Europlug), Type Ecited · letters are the IEC classification
    Official website
    gouvernement.gov.bf ↗From the source's "official website" statement, kept here because the site is a government portal. We have not tested whether it loads.uncited

  7. Population and economy

    Population

    Population of Burkina Faso: the UN's 2025 estimate is 24,074,580 people. The page shows that figure carried forward at about 1.0 more a minute. It is a projection, not a count, and the figure shown changes as time passes.

    Not a count. This is the UN's 2025 estimate carried forward at the rate implied by the two most recent published years — arithmetic, not a measurement. Nobody counts a country continuously, and the true figure right now is unknown.

    Where this number comes from
    Base figure
    24,074,580 people
    For the year
    2025 — a mid-year estimate, so it describes 1 July 2025
    Compared with
    23,548,781 people in 2024
    Rate applied
    about 1.0 more a minute (526,148 a year)
    How that rate was found
    The difference between the 2024 and 2025 estimates, divided by the time between them. It is our arithmetic on two published figures — the source does not publish this rate.
    Carried forward
    0 days beyond the base figure's date
    Source
    UN World Population Prospects and national statistical offices, compiled by the World Bank · source updated 2026-07-13
    The source's own definition
    The values shown are midyear estimates.

    THIS NUMBER IS NOT A MEASUREMENT, AND ITS MOVEMENT IS NOT NEWS. No country counts its population continuously. A census is periodic, and every figure between censuses — including the estimate this starts from — is a projection. What you are watching is that projection's trend applied to the clock on your phone. It moves because time passes, not because anyone was born or died. Treat the digits beyond the first few as arithmetic rather than knowledge: the trend is real, the precision is not.

    Population
    24,074,5802025
    GDP
    27,627,297,4612025
    GDP per capita
    1,1482025
    Life expectancy at birth
    61.3 years2024
    Exports
    35.0%2025
    Imports
    30.0%2025

    Compiled by the World Bank from: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wpp/, publisher: UN Population Division · source updated 2026-07-13 · each figure is dated because the most recent value was chosen by us, not by the source

  8. In this country's own words

    A motto IS recorded for this country, but not in any of its official languages. Aletheia does not quote a country in a language it does not use officially — the risk is quoting a mis-tagged entry as a nation's own words. That is our rule declining it, not the source failing to record one.

    Also recorded in Bulgarian, English, French, Spanish and Welsh.

  9. World Heritage Sites

    4 World Heritage Sitesshow all
    1. W-Arly-Pendjari Complex · inscribed 1996 · shared with Benin, Niger
    2. Ruins of Loropéni · inscribed 2009
    3. Ancient ferrous metallurgy sites of Burkina Faso · inscribed 2019
    4. Royal Court of Tiébélé · inscribed 2024

    Register from Wikidata (CC0) · in inscription order · links go to UNESCO

  10. Emergency numbers

    • 17listed as: police
    • 18listed as: fire department
    • 112listed as: emergency medical services

    Shown in numerical order, which is not an order of priority.

    Listed by the source, mostly from ITU-T E.129. We have not dialled these numbers, and where a service is named it is the source's description rather than ours.

  11. Explore this country

  12. Regions

    First-level regions as GeoNames lists them, shown alphabetically · each page computes daylight at the region’s own coordinates

  13. Currency

    XOF

News coverage here is counted from Aletheia’s bundled source registry plus the sources the Host had admitted as of 2026-09-07. A source admitted since that date has not reached this page yet, so this is a floor rather than a total.

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