Burkina Faso
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| Burkina_Faso | |
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| Population (In Millions) | 16.47 |
| Human Development Index | 181/169 |
| Gross Domestic Product (In USD Billions - World Bank) | 8.82 |
| Global Peace Index | 51/153 |
| Happy Planet Index | 138/143 |
| Social Institutions and Gender Index | 63/102 |
| Environmental Performance Index | 128/163 |
| Child Mortality Rate | 92.6 |
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Geography
Burkina Faso is is situated in Western Africa, north of Ghana. It has borders with Benin for 306km, Cote D'Ivoire for 584km, Ghana for 549km, Mali for 1000km, Niger for 628km and Togo for 126km. [1]
Quality of Life
Multidimensional Poverty Index
The Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) for Burkina Faso is 0.536. The MPI is an international measure of acute poverty covering 109 countries. The MPI reflects the multiple deprivations that poor people face at the same time in three dimensions: health, education and living standards. The MPI reflects both the incidence or headcount ratio (H) of poverty – the proportion of the population that is multidimensionally poor – and the average intensity (A) of their poverty – the average proportion of indicators in which poor people are deprived. More information on the MPI in Burkina Faso is available here.
UNDP Human Development Report Trends - 2011
According to the United Nations Development Programme, Burkina Faso's HDI is 0.331, which gives the country a rank of 181 out of 187 countries with comparable data. The HDI of Sub-Saharan Africa as a region increased from 0.365 in 1980 to 0.463 today, placing Burkina Faso below the regional average. [2].
Burkina Faso's HDI breaks as follow:
Health: 0.559
Education:0.187
Income: 0.349
Jobs and Earnings
Civic Engagement and Governance
Burkina Faso was ranked at the 51st place out of 153 countries on the 2011 Global Peace Index with a score of 1.832 [3]. Likewise, Burkina was categorized as a "partly free" country, by Freedom House on its 2011 report [4] and among the most perceived to be corrupted countries in the world with a score of 3[5]
Official Statistics
National Institute of Statistics and Demography
Development Progress Story: Progress in water supply in Burkina Faso’s cities
Burkina Faso, one of the poorest countries in Africa, has major constraints in terms of water resources and faces the challenge of ensuring a water supply to growing urban populations. This issue has been has been highlighted as a part the Overseas Development Institute 's Development Progress Stories, an initiative looking at what is working in development and why. Key messagesfrom the research include:
- Since 2000, improved production and distribution in Burkina Faso have extended water supply to nearly 2 million people in the four principal urban centres in the country. In the capital, Ouagadougou, the number with access to the network more than doubled in six years.
- Progress has been driven mainly by a turnaround in performance of the urban water utility, ONEA. Investment in human resources has strengthened staff capacities and enabled a substantial improvement in operations and finance, in line with government targets. One key lesson is that public utilities can be transformed by competent managers working within a government-set framework that allows for a combination of autonomy and accountability.
- Meanwhile, equity goals expressed in national policy need to be set as objectives in performance contracts, and social policy needs to be developed further, based on disaggregated information on water customers, in order to ensure improved water services reach low-income households.
Happiness in Burkina Faso
This is an overview of findings on Happiness in Burkina Faso.The available findings are presented in the latest ‘Nation Report’ on Burkina Faso.[6]. This report is ordered by type of happiness questions and within these types by year. This ordering is to facilitate the assessment of progress, comparison over time being most fruitful using the same questions.
The report presents means and standard deviations, both on the original scale range and transformed to a common range 0-10. The means inform about the level of happiness in the country and the standard deviations about inequality of happiness.
Links provide more detail about the precise text of the question, the full distribution of responses and technical details of the survey. The report is continuously updated.
