Burkina Faso's international tourism, expenditures for travel items (current US$) was US$114.6 million in 2019, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 79.06% from US$64 million in 2009 (6% a year on average, compounded).
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | US$114.6 million | 2019 |
| Five years earlier | US$132 million | 2014 |
| Ten years earlier | US$64 million | 2009 |
| Highest | US$144 million | 2013 |
| Lowest | US$20 million | 2000 |
| Average since 2010 | US$106.16 million | 2010–2019 |
| First recorded | US$20 million |
What the numbers say
In 2019, Burkina Faso's international tourism, expenditures for travel items (current US$) fell 3.7% on 2018 (from US$119 million to US$114.6 million).
Across the 18 yearly changes before that (2001 to 2018), the average change was +12.3% and a typical year strayed about 22.9% from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.7 standard deviations below that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 87% in 2013 and the biggest yearly fall was 22% in 2015. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2010 to 2019 the straight-line trend is upward, about US$4.96 million a year. A straight line explains 34% of the movement over 10 observed years.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
How it compares
In 2019, Burkina Faso had the 7th highest value of the 13 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | US$114.6 million | 2019 |
| World | US$1.4 trillion | 2019 |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | US$26.04 billion | 2019 |
| Low income | US$3.29 billion | 2019 |
Closest to Burkina Faso in the 2019 ranking
What this measures
International tourism expenditures are expenditures of international outbound visitors in other countries. The goods and services are purchased by, or on behalf of, the traveler or provided, without a quid pro quo, for the traveler to use or give away. These may include expenditures by residents traveling abroad as same-day visitors, except in cases where these are so important as to justify a separate classification. Excluded is the international carriage of travelers, which is covered in passenger travel items. Data are in current U.S. dollars.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a gap-filled total.
All 20 values
| Year | International tourism, expenditures for travel items (current US$) |
|---|---|
| 2019 | 114,599,998 |
| 2018 | 119,000,000 |
| 2017 | 116,000,000 |
| 2016 | 115,000,000 |
| 2015 | 103,000,000 |
| 2014 | 132,000,000 |
| 2013 | 144,000,000 |
| 2012 | 77,000,000 |
| 2011 | 72,000,000 |
| 2010 | 69,000,000 |
International tourism, expenditures for travel items (current US$) in nearby economies
- Angola — US$615 million (2020)
- Benin — US$94 million (2019)
- Botswana — US$89 million (2020)
- Burundi — US$23 million (2018)
- Cabo Verde — US$52 million (2020)
- Cameroon — US$553 million (2020)
- Comoros — US$31 million (2020)
- Congo, Dem. Rep. — US$204 million (2020)
- Congo, Rep.
More private sector & trade data for Burkina Faso
- Merchandise trade (% of GDP) — 67.5% (2025)
- Merchandise imports (current US$) — US$7.57 billion (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$) — US$11.08 billion (2025)
- Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) — 41.7% (2023)
- Merchandise imports by the reporting economy, residual (% of total merchandise imports) — 0% (2023)
- Merchandise imports by the reporting economy (current US$) — US$5.88 billion (2023)
- Merchandise exports to high-income economies (% of total merchandise exports) — 82.37% (2023)
- Merchandise exports to low- and middle-income economies in Sub-Saharan Africa (% of total merchandise exports)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Burkina Faso's international tourism, expenditures for travel items (current US$)?
- US$114.6 million in 2019, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 2000?
- It is up 473% from US$20 million in 2000 (9.62% a year on average, compounded). The highest value was US$144 million in 2013 and the lowest US$20 million in 2000.
- How does Burkina Faso rank?
- 7th highest of 13 economies with data for 2019.
- Is the latest change in international tourism, expenditures for travel items (current US$) unusual for Burkina Faso?
- In 2019, Burkina Faso's international tourism, expenditures for travel items (current US$) fell 3.7% on 2018 (from US$119 million to US$114.6 million). Across the 18 yearly changes before that (2001 to 2018), the average change was +12.3% and a typical year strayed about 22.9% from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.7 standard deviations below that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator ST.INT.TVLX.CD, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Yearbook of Tourism Statistics, Compendium of Tourism Statistics and data files, UN Tourism Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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