Born As · country file
If you were born in Burkina Faso today
About 1 in 168 babies born in the world right now is born in Burkina Faso (0.60%). This is what that life starts with — and you can live one, to the very end.
Life expectancy at birth61.6years · world 69.3
Children who die before five89per 1,000 births · world 48
Income per person$2,129a year, at local prices · world $13,616
Expected years of school8.5years · world 12.0
Life satisfaction4.7out of 10 · world 4.8
Live in cities34%world 52%
Mothers who die giving birth320per 100,000 births · world 239
Girls married before 1852%world 22%
- Out of every 1,000 babies born here, about 89 will not live to see their fifth birthday — 1.8 times the world average.
- A life here lasts 61.6 years on average — 7.7 years shorter than the world's 69.3.
- Income per person is about $2,129 a year at local prices, 0.16 times the world's.
Armed conflict affects parts of the country right now, and the game includes it.
Be born — maybe hereWhere you are born is drawn by real birth odds: today, 0.60% of the time it is Burkina Faso.
Lives lived here by visitors
No one has left a life from here in the memorial yet.
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Sources: UN World Population Prospects, UN IGME, World Bank, UNDP, World Happiness Report, WHO, UNICEF. Some small territories use regional estimates.