# Burkina Faso - Link: https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/burkina-faso/ - Published: 2026-05-22T20:17:50-05:00 - Author: Preeti Sinha National Blueprint · One of 195 # Burkina Faso A nation of 24.1 million whose gold lifted growth to 5.3% in 2025, and which secured $215.9 million in 2026 to transform its farms. Perfect Nations values what Burkina Faso owns and raises capital against it, through** innovative financing for development (FfD)** and **super intelligence (SI)**. Burkina Faso at a glance * **24.1m**PeopleWorld Bank, 2025 * _Furthest from reach · Shelter_**87.9%**of city dwellers in Burkina Faso live in slums[UN-Habitat, 2022](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.POP.SLUM.UR.ZS?locations=BF) * **3**Instruments and investments on record[Capital already committed](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/burkina-faso/#bp-register) [Work with us](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/burkina-faso/#bp-studio)[Read the Letter to Burkina Faso](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/burkina-faso/#bp-letter) What we do for Burkina Faso ## Assets. Capital. Solutions. Perfect Nations is a new-age sovereign advisory firm, and its clients are nations. 1. [01AssetsThe cupFive sovereign assets, valued, from The Gold to The People.](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/burkina-faso/#bp-assets) 2. [02CapitalThe laurels3 instruments and investments on record, every one sourced.](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/burkina-faso/#bp-capital) 3. [03SolutionsThe seven starsSeven basic standards of living, star by star. Shelter is furthest from reach today.](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/burkina-faso/#bp-pc) **The whole logo:** a Perfect Nation, where every citizen has all seven basic standards of living, led by good governance. [01](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/burkina-faso/#bp-do)**Assets** · The cup · Sovereign Assets ## Five assets no balance sheet counts. Each is owned today, earns today, and can carry Burkina Faso toward seven basic standards of living for every citizen. * **43.2%**Rise in gold exports, 2025 * ### The Gold * Gold carried the current account into surplus in 2025; the task is to bank the windfall into lasting assets. * **62.6%**Of the land in agriculture, 2024 * ### The Farmland * Six tenths of the land in agriculture: the base for food at home and income abroad. * **20.1%**Of GDP from natural resource rents, 2021 * ### The Ground * What lies under the land already earns; the task is to turn the rent into lasting assets. * **12.3%**Of the land under forest, 2024 * ### The Forest * Standing forest that stores carbon and water, and can earn as it stands. * **24.1m**Citizens, 2025 * ### The People * 41.2% are under fifteen: the workforce and the market of the next generation. [Every figure, with its source](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/burkina-faso/#bp-sources) [The Sovereign Assets ledger](https://perfectnations.com/sovereign-assets/) [02](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/burkina-faso/#bp-do)**Capital** · The laurels · Capital Architecture ## Gold income, and capital for the farms. Bonds, guarantees, swaps and loans that raise capital against what Burkina Faso owns, every line sourced. [Capital Architecture](https://perfectnations.com/capital-architecture/) The record in figures * **$215.9M**Burkina Faso Agricultural Transformation Project, approved 10 March 2026[World Bank, 2026](https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2026/03/10/burkina-faso-a-new-project-to-accelerate-the-transformation-of-the-agricultural-sector) * **$120M**Economic opportunities and social protection, approved 15 June 2026: $100 million IDA credit and a $20 million grant[World Bank, 2026](https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2026/07/15/burkina-faso-new-world-bank-financing-to-expand-economic-opportunities-and-strengthen-social-protection-systems) * **$302M**Extended Credit Facility, 48 months, approved September 2023, augmented June 2026[IMF, 2026](https://www.imf.org/-/media/files/publications/cr/2026/english/1bfaea2026002.pdf) * **52.1%**Total public debt, share of GDP, projected for 2025, down from 57.2% in 2024[Ecofin Agency, 2026](https://www.ecofinagency.com/news/1902-53078-imf-completes-fourth-review-of-burkina-fasos-extended-credit-facility-and-approves-124-3-million-climate-resilience-program) Capital already committed * MultilateralApprovedAgricultural Transformation Project$215.9M * IDA · Approved 10 March 2026 * Productivity, storage, agro-processing and access to finance in four high-potential regions, with women and youth included. * World Bank * [Source](https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2026/03/10/burkina-faso-a-new-project-to-accelerate-the-transformation-of-the-agricultural-sector) * MultilateralApprovedEconomic Opportunities for Resilience$120M * IDA and Sahel Adaptive Social Protection Program · Approved 15 June 2026 * Economic opportunities for vulnerable households and a stronger social protection system, over five years. * World Bank * [Source](https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2026/07/15/burkina-faso-new-world-bank-financing-to-expand-economic-opportunities-and-strengthen-social-protection-systems) * MultilateralActiveExtended Credit Facility and Resilience and Sustainability Facility * IMF · ECF approved September 2023 · RSF approved February 2026 * Fifth ECF review, augmentation and first RSF review completed 26 June 2026. * IMF * [Source](https://www.imf.org/-/media/files/publications/cr/2026/english/1bfaea2026002.pdf) ### The Burkina Faso Newswire [The Solutions Wire](https://perfectnations.com/state-of-nations/#sn-wire) ![Aminata Ouédraogo, Nation Steward of Burkina Faso](https://perfectnations.com/ wp-content/uploads/2026/11/Aminata-Ouedraogo-Nation-Steward-of-Burkina-Faso-150x150. png) **Aminata Ouédraogo**Nation Steward of Burkina Faso · SI ResearcherLast updated 12 November 2026 * 18 Mar 2026[**Burkina Faso: World Bank Grants $216 Million to Boost Agriculture**](https://www.capmad.com/post/burkina-faso-world-bank-grants-216-million-to-boost-agriculture) Capmad * 19 Feb 2026[**IMF Completes Fourth Review of Burkina Faso’s Extended Credit Facility and Approves $124.3 Million Climate Resilience Program**](https://www.ecofinagency.com/news/1902-53078-imf-completes-fourth-review-of-burkina-fasos-extended-credit-facility-and-approves-124-3-million-climate-resilience-program) Ecofin Agency ## Already working in Burkina Faso. Independent firms and social enterprises already at work in Burkina Faso, highlighted by Perfect Nations. None is a partner of Perfect Nations. [Suggest an enterprise](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/burkina-faso/contact@perfectnations.com?subject=An%20enterprise%20already%20at%20work%20in%20Burkina%20Faso) * ### The first firms and social enterprises at work in Burkina Faso are being gathered. * Name one already at work there: it may be highlighted here, with its source. [03](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/burkina-faso/#bp-do)**Solutions** · The seven stars · Perfect Capita ## Perfect Burkina Faso, _star by star._ **Perfect Capita** is the yearly cost, per person, of lifting everyone above the Living Line in all seven basic living standards, set with Burkina Faso in its own prices. [How Perfect Capita works](https://perfectnations.com/perfect-capita/) **12.1%** Shelter · furthest from reachCity dwellers outside slums; 87.9% live in slums[UN-Habitat, 2022](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.POP.SLUM.UR.ZS?locations=BF) Tap a star for its figure and source. The price of Perfect Burkina Faso To be set with Burkina Faso, from its own figures and in its own prices: Perfect Capita times the people of Burkina Faso, each year. Read more * Food**58.8%**Not food insecure; 41.2% are moderately or severely food insecure [FAO, 2024](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SN.ITK.MSFI.ZS?locations=BF) * Water**50%**Basic drinking water; safely managed water is not measured (lenient) [WHO/UNICEF, 2024](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.H2O.BASW.ZS?locations=BF) * Shelter**12.1%**City dwellers outside slums; 87.9% live in slums[UN-Habitat, 2022](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.POP.SLUM.UR.ZS?locations=BF) * Energy**13.5**About 135 kWh of electricity a person a year, against the Living Line of 1,000; 18% cook with clean fuels (2024)[Ember, 2024](https://ember-energy.org/data/yearly-electricity-data/) * Education**26.1**26.1% of children read a simple text by the end of primary school; 2019, dated[World Bank, 2019](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.LPV.PRIM?locations=BF) * Health**47**WHO service coverage index[WHO, 2023](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/universal-health-coverage-index?country=~BFA) * Livelihood**56.8%**Above the national poverty line; 43.2% live below it[World Bank, 2021](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.NAHC?locations=BF) Perfect Nations estimate, to be confirmed with Burkina Faso. Figures marked dated rest on surveys more than five years old; lenient measures are marked as such. [The strict measures](https://perfectnations.com/perfect-capita/#pq-measures) Strict measures. Food: share not moderately or severely food insecure (FAO). Water: safely managed drinking water where measured; where it is not, basic water, marked as such. Shelter: the lower of safely managed sanitation and the share outside urban slums. Energy: the lower of electricity per person against 1,000 kWh and clean cooking; where electricity per person is not published, clean cooking. Education: the lower of children reading by the end of primary school and lower-secondary completion. Health: WHO service coverage index. Livelihood: share above the stricter of the national poverty line and the World Bank line for the nation’s income group. Each figure links to its source. ### Solutions for Perfect Burkina Faso [All Solutions](https://perfectnations.com/state-of-nations/#sn-solutions) * **The Solution for Burkina Faso**Shelter * ### Ring-fence bond money for homes and sanitation. - **01****The challenge**87.9% Of city dwellers in Burkina Faso live in slums. [UN-Habitat, 2022](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.POP.SLUM.UR.ZS?locations=BF) - **02****The deal** - Social bond, proved in Ecuador, 2020: $400M for affordable homes. [Inter-American Development Bank, 2020](https://www.iadb.org/en/news/ecuador-issues-worlds-first-sovereign-social-bond-support-idb-guarantee) - **03****What Perfect Nations advises**Nations where shelter is furthest from reach should issue a social bond whose proceeds can be spent only on eligible homes, toilets and sewers. With super intelligence, each unit can be planned, priced and verified, and reported to investors every year, until every family has a safe home. * Co-design it in**The ReDesign Studio**[The three mandates](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/burkina-faso/#bp-mandates) Perfect Nations® · Letters to the NationsBurkina Faso ## Dear Burkina Faso, Your gold lifted growth in 2025 and turned your current account to surplus. Read more Most of you live from the land, and four in ten are under fifteen. The task is to bank the gold into farms, schools and power that last beyond the price of gold. “Gold is a season. Farms, schools and power are a century. Let the season pay for the century.” Yours in design,**Preeti Sinha**President and CEO, Perfect Nations Work with us · The ReDesign Studio ## The Perfect Burkina Faso _ReDesign Studio_ One mission, three depths: the same four moves for Burkina Faso, taken as far toward market as you choose. Read more For the Government of Burkina Faso, its development partners and investors. Scope and fees are agreed in writing before any work begins. 1. **01**Identify the assets 2. **02**Estimate Perfect Capita 3. **03**Co-design the capital architecture 4. **04**Launch the instruments 1. Mandate 013 hours 2. ### The Nation Briefing 3. A private session for the people who decide. 4. You leave withThe gap, named and sized 5. Read more 6. a. **01**The five sovereign assets on this page, walked through. b. **02**Shelter, the standard furthest from reach, and the Gap, explained. c. **03**The instruments that could close the Gap, shortlisted. d. **04**The path to market, outlined. 7. [Request a Nation Briefing](https://perfectnations.com/contact/?about=briefing&country=Burkina%20Faso) 8. Mandate 023 days 9. ### The Blueprint Lab 10. Your team and ours, working the blueprint together. 11. You leave withThe structure, drawn 12. Read more 13. a. **01**The ledger tested against your ministries’ own data. b. **02**Each of the seven standards costed in local prices. c. **03**One financing structure, drawn with your team. d. **04**A term sheet and the partners to approach. 14. [Plan a Blueprint Lab](https://perfectnations.com/contact/?about=lab&country=Burkina%20Faso) 15. Mandate 03End to end 16. ### The Sovereign Mandate 17. Led personally by the President and CEO. 18. You leave withA structure ready for market 19. Read more 20. a. **01**A full sovereign asset ledger, valued and verified. b. **02**Perfect Capita set and agreed with government, with a monitoring plan. c. **03**The full structure: legal form, credit enhancement, guarantees and pricing. d. **04**Taken to investors and development partners, through to close. 21. [Discuss a Sovereign Mandate](https://perfectnations.com/contact/?about=commission&country=Burkina%20Faso) ### Co-design it with us Where Burkinabè and Co-designers design the nation they want to live in. * Writings * #### Write Perfect Burkina Faso into being. * Up to 1,500 words on your vision of Perfect Burkina Faso, published with your name. * [Submit your writing](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/burkina-faso/contact@perfectnations.com?subject=Writing%20for%20Perfect%20Burkina%20Faso&body=Your%20name%2C%20or%20a%20pen%20name%3A%0D%0AWhere%20you%20live%3A%0D%0ATitle%3A%0D%0A%0D%0AYour%20vision%20of%20Perfect%20Burkina%20Faso%2C%20and%20the%20economic%20solutions%20to%20achieve%20it%20%28up%20to%201%2C500%20words%29%3A%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0AI%20confirm%20that%20this%20is%20my%20own%20original%20writing%2C%20and%20I%20give%20Perfect%20Nations%20permission%20to%20publish%20it%20with%20credit%20to%20me.%0D%0A) * Voices of Perfect Nations Launching soon * #### The local leaders already building Perfect Burkina Faso. * Great local leaders: honest, dedicated and committed to basic standards of living for all. Every guest answers one question: “What does Burkina Faso already own, and how could it pay for a decent life for every citizen?” * [Nominate yourself](https://perfectnations.com/contact/?nation=burkina-faso&topic=nominate-self) [Suggest a guest](https://perfectnations.com/contact/?nation=burkina-faso&topic=guest) * Co-designers * #### Join the community. * Everyone who shares a vision, a voice or an enterprise here becomes a **Co-designer of Perfect Burkina Faso**. * [Become a Co-designer](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/burkina-faso/contact@perfectnations.com?subject=Becoming%20a%20Co-designer%20of%20Perfect%20Burkina%20Faso&body=Your%20name%3A%0D%0AWhere%20you%20live%3A%0D%0AHow%20you%20would%20like%20to%20contribute%20%28writing%2C%20a%20voice%20for%20the%20podcast%2C%20an%20enterprise%2C%20your%20expertise%29%3A%0D%0A) The Burkina Faso ReDesign Studio is open ## Design Perfect Burkina Faso with us. Share your vision, suggest a guest, or write to us: every message receives a personal reply. [Enter the ReDesign Studio](https://perfectnations.com/design-studio/)[Write to us](https://perfectnations.com/contact/?nation=burkina-faso) [All 195 nations](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/) Sources 1. World Bank, World Development Indicators (API, last updated 8 October 2026), accessed 10 November 2026: population 2025, ages 0 to 14 2025, land area and agricultural and forest land 2024, renewable fresh water per person 2022, natural resource rents 2021, renewable electricity output 2021, electricity access and clean cooking 2024. 2. The seven standards: FAO food insecurity, WHO/UNICEF JMP water and sanitation, UN-Habitat urban slums, World Bank clean cooking, learning poverty and lower-secondary completion, and poverty headcounts (all via the World Bank); WHO UHC service coverage index, 2023. 3. IMF, PR 26/054, 19 February 2026; IMF Country Report 26/207 (2026 Article IV, fifth ECF review), June 2026. Ecofin Agency, 19 February 2026. 4. World Bank press releases, 10 March and 15 June 2026. 5. Electricity used per person: Ember, Yearly Electricity Data (2026 release), accessed 12 November 2026.