Economy · GDP per capita · Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso’s GDP per capita rose to $1,148 in 2025.
$1,148
2025
Up $165.1 from 2024.
Updated 8 Oct 2026
In plain words
$1,148
What it is. GDP per capita takes the value of all goods and services produced in Burkina Faso in a year and divides it by the number of people living there. Because it is measured in current US dollars, it moves with local prices and with the CFA franc's exchange rate against the dollar, as well as with real output. It is an average, so it shows nothing about how income is shared between households. Work done outside formal markets enters only to the extent statisticians estimate it.
Higher is better. More output per person means more income to spend, save and tax, so a higher figure is better. The latest figure, for 2025, is $1,148, up from $982.5 in 2024, a rise of 16.8%. That is the highest level since 2016, the start of the window, when the figure stood at its lowest, $663.7. The 2025 figure therefore sits at the top of its own range for the period.
Why it matters. An average of $1,148 per person a year is the base from which households earn and spend and from which the state draws taxes. A 16.8% rise in dollar terms raises the average purchasing power of the economy over imported goods such as fuel and machinery, and makes dollar-denominated debt lighter relative to output. How much of the gain reaches individual households depends on how it is distributed, which this average does not show.
| Period | GDP per capita · Burkina Faso |
|---|---|
| 2016 | $663.7 |
| 2017 | $709.1 |
| 2018 | $777.5 |
| 2019 | $764.9 |
| 2020 | $825.2 |
| 2021 | $895.5 |
| 2022 | $827.3 |
| 2023 | $873.2 |
| 2024 | $982.5 |
| 2025 | $1,148 |
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators (CC BY 4.0) · Licence: CC BY 4.0
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Strata-AF™ Data, GDP per capita, Burkina Faso, 2025; source World Bank, World Development Indicators (CC BY 4.0), retrieved 8 Oct 2026; https://data.strata-af.com/economy/gdp-per-capita/burkina-faso
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Gross domestic product per person at current US dollars. Unit: USD.
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators (series NY.GDP.PCAP.CD), retrieved through the World Bank API and published under CC BY 4.0. Updated annually; the World Bank's own source notes apply.