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Burkina Faso

Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Capital City: Ouagadougou
Country Code: BF

Purchasing Power Parity (PPP)

Year: 2024 = 199.487239
Year: 2023 = 197.110620
Year: 2021 = 192.504242
Year: 2020 = 191.772705
Year: 2019 = 190.084991

Lending Interest Rate

Year: 2021 = 6.250%
Year: 2020 = 6.538%
Year: 2019 = 6.688%
Year: 2018 = 6.763%
Year: 2017 = 6.512%

Unfortunately, lending rates are from the World Bank and may be outdated, as many countries stopped reporting lending rates after 2019. You may easily get more updated data from the Reserve Bank for the country, or any commercial bank website.

Human Development Index (HDI)

Year: 2023 = 0.266
Year: 2022 = 0.281
Year: 2021 = 0.285
Year: 2020 = 0.250
Year: 2019 = 0.268

The HDI is recalculated every year using the most recent data and functional forms. Rankings in one report cannot be directly compared to earlier editions.


Data Attribution: The World Bank | UNDP/HDRO
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