GDP (purchasing power parity):
$15.74 billion (2004 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
4.8% (2004 est.)
GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $1,200 (2004 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 39.5%
industry: 19.3%
services: 41.3% (2004 est.)
Labor force:
5 million
note: a large part of the male labor force migrates annually to
neighboring countries for seasonal employment (2003)
Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture 90% (2000 est.)
Unemployment rate:
NA%
Population below poverty line:
45% (2003 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 2%
highest 10%: 46.8% (1994)
Distribution of family income - Gini index:
48.2 (1994)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
2.4% (2004 est.)
Investment (gross fixed):
29.1% of GDP (2004 est.)
Budget:
revenues: $695.2 million
expenditures: $876.3 million, including capital expenditures of NA
(2004 est.)
Agriculture - products:
cotton, peanuts, shea nuts, sesame, sorghum, millet, corn, rice;
livestock
Industries:
cotton lint, beverages, agricultural processing, soap, cigarettes,
textiles, gold
Industrial production growth rate:
14% (2001 est.)
Electricity - production:
361 million kWh (2002)
Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 69.9% hydro: 30.1% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (2001)
Electricity - consumption:
335.7 million kWh (2002)
Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2002)
Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (2002)
Oil - production:
0 bbl/day (2001 est.)
Oil - consumption:
8,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)
Oil - exports:
NA
Oil - imports:
NA
Current account balance:
$-471.7 million (2004 est.)
Exports:
$418.6 million f.o.b. (2004 est.)
Exports - commodities:
cotton, livestock, gold
Exports - partners:
China 32.1%, Singapore 11.5%, Ghana 4.7%, Bangladesh 4.3% (2004)
Imports:
$866.3 million f.o.b. (2004 est.)
Imports - commodities:
capital goods, foodstuffs, petroleum
Imports - partners:
France 29.3%, Cote d'Ivoire 16%, Togo 9.8% (2004)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$474.9 million (2004 est.)
Debt - external:
$1.3 billion (2000)
Economic aid - recipient:
$484.1 million (1995)
Currency (code):
Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (XOF); note - responsible
authority is the Central Bank of the West African States
Currency code:
XOF
Exchange rates:
Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (XOF) per US dollar - 528.29
(2004), 581.2 (2003), 696.99 (2002), 733.04 (2001), 711.98 (2000)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Communications Burkina Faso
Telephones - main lines in use:
65,400 (2003)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
227,000 (2003)
Telephone system:
general assessment: all services only fair
domestic: microwave radio relay, open-wire, and radiotelephone
communication stations
international: country code - 226; satellite earth station - 1
Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 3, FM 17, shortwave 3 (2002)
Radios:
394,020 (2000)
Television
