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of
Burkina Faso Burkina Faso (, ; , ff, 𞤄𞤵𞤪𞤳𞤭𞤲𞤢 𞤊𞤢𞤧𞤮, italic=no) is a landlocked country in West Africa with an area of , bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to ...
, including
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, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
Burkina Faso Burkina Faso (, ; , ff, 𞤄𞤵𞤪𞤳𞤭𞤲𞤢 𞤊𞤢𞤧𞤮, italic=no) is a landlocked country in West Africa with an area of , bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to ...
's million people belong to two major West African cultural groups—the Gur (Voltaic) and the Mandé. The Voltaic are far more numerous and include the Mossi, who make up about one-half of the population. The Mossi claim descent from warriors who migrated to present-day Burkina Faso and established an empire that lasted more than 800 years. Predominantly farmers, the Mossi are still bound by the traditions of the Mogho Naba, who hold court in
Ouagadougou Ouagadougou ( , , ) is the capital and largest city of Burkina Faso and the administrative, communications, cultural, and economic centre of the nation. It is also the country's largest city, with a population of 2,415,266 in 2019. The city's ...
. About 12,000 Europeans reside in Burkina Faso, the majority of whom are French. Most of Burkina Faso's population is concentrated in the south and center of the country, with a population density sometimes exceeding . This population density, high for Africa, causes annual migrations of hundreds of thousands of Burkinabé to Ivory Coast and
Ghana Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, and To ...
for seasonal agricultural work. About a third of Burkinabé adhere to traditional African religions. The introduction of Islam to Burkina Faso was initially resisted by the Mossi rulers. Christians, predominantly
Roman Catholic Roman or Romans most often refers to: *Rome, the capital city of Italy * Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD * Roman people, the people of ancient Rome *'' Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a let ...
s, are largely concentrated among the urban elite. Few Burkinabé have had formal education. Schooling is free but not compulsory, and only about 29% of Burkina's primary school-age children receive a basic education. The
University of Ouagadougou Founded in 1974, the University of Ouagadougou (UO; french: Université de Ouagadougou) is in the area of Dagnöen Nord (pronounced dag-no-en noor) in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. It was officially renamed in 2015 as l’Université Ouaga 1 Profes ...
, founded in 1974, was the country's first institution of higher education. The
Polytechnic University of Bobo-Dioulasso The Nazi Boni University (Université Nazi Boni) is a university in Bobo-Dioulasso, Houet Province, Burkina Faso. It is one of three public universities in Burkina Faso (the others are the University of Koudougou and the University of Ouagadougou ...
in
Bobo-Dioulasso Bobo-Dioulasso is a city in Burkina Faso with a population of 904,920 (); it is the second-largest city in the country, after Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso's capital. The name means "home of the Bobo-Dioula". The local Bobo-speaking population (r ...
was opened in 1995.


Population

According to the United Nations' Population Division, the population was 20,903,000 in 2020, compared to only 4,284,000 in 1950. The proportion of children below the age of 15 in 2020 was 44.4%, 53.2% of the population was between 15 and 65 years of age, while 2.4% was 65 years or older. Population Estimates by Sex and Age Group (1 July 2020):


Vital statistics

Registration of vital events is not complete in Burkina Faso. The website
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prepared the following estimates based on statistics from the Population Department of the
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Fertility and births

Total Fertility Rate (TFR) (Wanted Fertility Rate) and Crude Birth Rate (CBR): Fertility data as of 2013 (DHS Program):


Other demographic statistics

Demographic statistics according to the World Population Review in 2022. *One birth every 40 seconds *One death every 3 minutes *One net migrant every 21 minutes *Net gain of one person every 52 seconds The following demographic statistics are from the CIA World Factbook, unless otherwise indicated.


Demographic profile

Burkina Faso has a young age structure – the result of declining mortality combined with steady high fertility – and continues to experience rapid population growth, which is putting increasing pressure on the country's limited arable land. More than 65% of the population is under the age of 25, and the population is growing at 3% annually. Mortality rates, especially those of infants and children, have decreased because of improved health care, hygiene, and sanitation, but women continue to have an average of almost 6 children. Even if fertility were substantially reduced, today's large cohort entering their reproductive years would sustain high population growth for the foreseeable future. Only about a third of the population is literate and unemployment is widespread, dampening the economic prospects of Burkina Faso's large working-age population.


Population

:21,935,389 (2022 est.) :21,382,659 (July 2021 est.) :''Note'': estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected


Religions

Muslim 63.2%, Roman Catholic 24.6%, Protestant 6.9%, traditional/animist 4.2%, none 0.7%, unspecified 0.4% (2017-18 est.)


Age structure

:0-14 years: 43.58% (male 4,606,350/female 4,473,951) :15-24 years: 20.33% (male 2,121,012/female 2,114,213) :25-54 years: 29.36% (male 2,850,621/female 3,265,926) :55-64 years: 3.57% (male 321,417/female 423,016) :65 years and over: 3.16% (male 284,838/female 374,057) (2020 est.) :0-14 years: 44.88% (male 4,519,960/female 4,503,937) :15-24 years: 20.07% (male 2,024,501/female 2,012,053) :25-54 years: 29.42% (male 2,999,941/female 2,915,264) :55-64 years: 3.2% (male 284,374/female 359,159) :65 years and over: 2.43% (male 181,996/female 306,324) (2017 est.)


Median age

:Total: 17.9 years Country comparison to the world: 216th :Male: 17.0 years :Female: 18.7 years (2020 est.) :Total: 17.3 years :Male: 17.1 years :Female: 17.4 years (2017 est.)


Population growth rate

:2.53% (2022 est.) Country comparison to the world: 20th :2.58% (2020 est.) Country comparison to the world: 14th :3% (2017 est.)


Birth rate

:33.57 births/1,000 population (2022 est.) Country comparison to the world: 19 :34.34 births/1,000 population (2021 est.) Country comparison to the world: 20th


Death rate

:7.71 deaths/1,000 population (2022 est.) Country comparison to the world: 103rd :7.92 deaths/1,000 population (2021 est.) Country comparison to the world: 89th


Net migration rate

:-0.61 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2022 est.) Country comparison to the world: 127th :-0.62 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2021 est.) Country comparison to the world: 131st


Mother's mean age at first birth

:19.4 years (2010 est.) :note: median age at first birth among women 25-29


Total fertility rate The total fertility rate (TFR) of a population is the average number of children that would be born to a woman over her lifetime if: # she were to experience the exact current age-specific fertility rates (ASFRs) through her lifetime # she were t ...

:4.27 children born/woman (2022 est.) Country comparison to the world: 22nd :4.39 children born/woman (2021 est.) Country comparison to the world: 18th


Contraceptive prevalence rate

:30.1% (2020) :32.5% (2018/19)


Urbanization

:urban population: 31.9% of total population (2022) :rate of urbanization: 4.75% annual rate of change (2020-25 est.) :Urban population: 30.6% of total population (2020) :Rate of urbanization: 4.99% annual rate of change (2015-20 est.)


Sex ratio

:At birth: 1.03 male(s)/female :0-14 years: 1.03 male(s)/female :15-24 years: 1.00 male(s)/female :25-54 years: 0.87 male(s)/female :55-64 years: 0.76 male(s)/female :65 years and over: 0.76 male(s)/female :Total population: 0.96 male(s)/female (2020 est.)


Life expectancy at birth

:total population: 63.44 years :male: 61.63 years :female: 65.31 years (2022 est.) :Total population: 63.06 years :Male: 61.28 years :Female: 64.89 years (2021 est.)


HIV/AIDS

:Adult prevalence rate: 0.8% (2019 est.) County comparison to the world: 51st :People living with
HIV The human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV) are two species of ''Lentivirus'' (a subgroup of retrovirus) that infect humans. Over time, they cause acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), a condition in which progressive failure of the immune ...
/ AIDS: 100,000 (2019 est.) Country comparison to the world: 44th :Deaths: 3,100 (2019 est.) Country comparison to the world: 33rd


Major infectious diseases

:degree of risk: very high (2020) :food or waterborne diseases: bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever :vectorborne diseases: dengue fever and malaria :water contact diseases: schistosomiasis :animal contact diseases: rabies :respiratory diseases: meningococcal meningitis note: on 21 March 2022, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Burkina Faso is currently considered a high risk to travelers for polio; the CDC recommends that before any international travel, anyone unvaccinated, incompletely vaccinated, or with an unknown polio vaccination status should complete the routine polio vaccine series; before travel to any high-risk destination, CDC recommends that adults who previously completed the full, routine polio vaccine series receive a single, lifetime booster dose of polio vaccine


Nationality

:Noun: Burkinabé (singular and plural) :Adjective: Burkinabé


Ethnic groups

: Mossi 52%,
Fulani The Fula, Fulani, or Fulɓe people ( ff, Fulɓe, ; french: Peul, links=no; ha, Fulani or Hilani; pt, Fula, links=no; wo, Pël; bm, Fulaw) are one of the largest ethnic groups in the Sahel and West Africa, widely dispersed across the region. ...
8.4%, Gurma 7%,
Bobo Bobo may refer to: Animals and plants * Bobo (gorilla) a popular gorilla at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle from 1953 to 1968 * Bobo, Vietnamese name for Job's tears, a plant of south-east Asia Entertainment, arts and media * ''Bobo'' (mag ...
4.9%, Gurunsi 4.6%, Senufo 4.5%, Bissa 3.7%, Lobi 2.4%, Dagara 2.4%,
Tuareg The Tuareg people (; also spelled Twareg or Touareg; endonym: ''Imuhaɣ/Imušaɣ/Imašeɣăn/Imajeɣăn'') are a large Berber ethnic group that principally inhabit the Sahara in a vast area stretching from far southwestern Libya to southern Alg ...
/
Ikelan The Ikelan (Éklan/Ikelan or Ibenheren in Tamasheq; Bouzou in Hausa; Bella in Songhai; singular Akli) are a caste within Tuareg society, who were at one time slaves or servile communities. The Ikelan's situation is somewhat analogous to that of ...
1.9%, Dioula 0.8%, Unspecified/No answer 0.3%, Other 7.2% (including Europeans) (2010 est.)


Religions

: Islam 61.5%,
Roman Catholic Roman or Romans most often refers to: *Rome, the capital city of Italy * Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD * Roman people, the people of ancient Rome *'' Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a let ...
23.3%,
Traditional A tradition is a belief or behavior (folk custom) passed down within a group or society with symbolic meaning or special significance with origins in the past. A component of cultural expressions and folklore, common examples include holidays or ...
/ Animist 7.8%,
Protestant Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that follows the theological tenets of the Protestant Reformation, a movement that began seeking to reform the Catholic Church from within in the 16th century against what its followers perceived to b ...
6.5%, Other/No Answer 0.2%, None 0.7% (2010 est.)


Languages

: French(official), native
African languages The languages of Africa are divided into several major language families: * Niger–Congo or perhaps Atlantic–Congo languages (includes Bantu and non-Bantu, and possibly Mande and others) are spoken in West, Central, Southeast and Souther ...
belonging to Sudanic family spoken by 90% of the population


Literacy

:Definition: age 15 and over can read and write :Total population: 41.2% :Male: 50.1% :Female: 32.7% (2018 est.)


Education expenditure

:5.4% of GDP (2018)


Slavery

In 2018, an estimated 82,000 people in the country were living under "modern slavery" according to the Global Slavery Index. News reports also indicate that "most child slaves on cocoa farms (Ivory Coast and Ghana) come from Mali and Burkina Faso, two of the poorest nations on Earth. The children, some as young as ten, are sent by their families or trafficked by agents with the promise of money. They are made to work long hours for little or no money."


References

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External links

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Institut National de la Statistique et de la Démographie
{{DEFAULTSORT:Demographics Of Burkina Faso Society of Burkina Faso