World population/Burkina Faso
Africa
Population of Burkina Faso
24,601,699
Growing by 0.02 people every second
#59
world rank
0.30%
of world population
+2.15%
yearly change
+529,214
people this year
747,913
births a year
191,225
deaths a year
How the figure for Burkina Faso is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Burkina Faso at 24,601,699 on 1 July 2026, and projects 25,130,913 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.02 people added every second.
That places Burkina Faso at number 59 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.30 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 58 entries in Africa.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 747,913 births and 191,225 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.
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