AREA: 274,000 sq KM
LANDLOCKED

BORDERING COUNTRIES: BENIN 386km, COTE D’IVOIRE 545km, GHANA 602km, MALI 1325km, NIGER 622km, TOGO 131km

POPULATION: 22,489,126 (2023 est.)
POPULATION BELOW POVERTY LINE: 41.4% (2018 est)

URBANIZATION: 32.5% of total population (2023)

ETHNIC GROUPS: Mossi 52%, Fulani 8.4%, Gurma 7%, Bobo 4.9%, Gurunsi 4.6%, Senufo 4.5%, Bissa 3.7%, Lobi 2.4%, Dagara 2.4%, Tuareg/Bella 1.9%, Dioula 0.8%, unspecified/no answer 0.3%, other 7.2% (2010 est.)

RELIGIONS: Muslim 63.2%, Roman Catholic 24.6%, Protestant 6.9%, traditional/animist 4.2%, uspecific 0.4% (2017 est.)

AGES:
0 to 14: 42.19% (male 4,813,760/female 4,674,649)
15 to 64: 54.62% (male 5,899,774/female 6,383,134)
65 older: 3.19% (male 305,233/female 412,576)

GOVERNMENT TYPE:
Presidential Republic

INDEPENDENCE:
August 5, 1960 (From France)

CHIEF OF STATE: transitional President Capt Ibrahim Traore (since September 30, 2022) Junta ousted President Lt. Col. Paul Henri Sandaogo Damiba.

MILITARY STRENGTH:
14,000 personnel
8,500 Army; 500 Air Force; 5,000 National Gendarmerie (2023)

Known Terrorism Groups: Ansarul Islam, Islamic State of Greater Sahara, al-Mulathamun Battalion, Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin

REFUGEES: 35,860 displaced from Mali (2023)

SOURCE: https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/burkina-faso/