Editing Demographics of Burkina Faso (section)

==Population==
Burkina Faso has a young age structure – the result of declining mortality combined with steady high fertility – and continues to experience rapid population growth, which is putting increasing pressure on the country's limited arable land. More than 65% of the population is under the age of 25, and the population is growing at 3% annually. Mortality rates, especially those of infants and children, have decreased because of improved health care, hygiene, and sanitation, but women continue to have an average of almost 6 children. Even if fertility were substantially reduced, today's large cohort entering their reproductive years would sustain high population growth for the foreseeable future. Only about a third of the population is literate and unemployment is widespread, dampening the economic prospects of Burkina Faso's large working-age population.

According to the United Nations' Population Division, the population was 20,903,000 in 2020, compared to only 4,284,000 in 1950.<ref name="WPP Data Query">{{cite web|url=http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/index.htm|title=Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat, World Population Prospects: Data Query|website=Esa.un.org|access-date=2021-01-31}}</ref> The proportion of children below the age of 15 in 2020 was 44.4%, 53.2% of the population was between 15 and 65 years of age, while 2.4% was 65 years or older.<ref name="WPP Data Query"/>
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: right;"
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!
! width="80" |Total population
! width="80" |Population aged 0–14 (%)
! width="80" |Population aged 15–64 (%)
! width="80" |Population aged 65+ (%)
|-
| 1950
|4 284 000||40.7||57.3||2.0
|-
| 1955
|4 517 000||41.0||56.9||2.2
|-
| 1960
|4 829 000||41.3||56.3||2.3
|-
| 1965
|5 175 000||42.2||55.2||2.5
|-
| 1970
|5 625 000||43.3||53.9||2.8
|-
| 1975
|6 155 000||44.2||52.8||3.0
|-
| 1980
|6 823 000||45.6||51.2||3.2
|-
| 1985
|7 728 000||46.7||50.0||3.3
|-
| 1990
|8 811 000||47.3||49.5||3.3
|-
| 1995
|10 090 000||47.1||49.8||3.1
|-
| 2000
|11 608 000||46.8||50.5||2.8
|-
| 2005
|13 422 000||46.5||50.9||2.6
|-
| 2010
|15 605 000||46.2||51.3||2.5
|-
| 2015
|18 111 000||45.6||52.0||2.4
|-
| 2020
|20 903 000||44.4||53.2||2.4
|}

Population Estimates by Sex and Age Group (1.VII.2021) (Data refer to national projections.):<ref>{{cite web | url=https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic-social/products/dyb/#statistics | title=UNSD — Demographic and Social Statistics }}</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! width="80pt"|Age Group
! width="80pt"|Male
! width="80pt"|Female
! width="80pt"|Total
! width="80pt"|%
|-
| align="right" | Total
| align="right" | 10 393 241
| align="right" | 11 116 202 
| align="right" | 21 509 443
| align="right" | 100
|-
| align="right" | 0–4
| align="right" | 1 971 908
| align="right" | 1 860 417
| align="right" | 3 832 325
| align="right" | 17.82
|-
| align="right" | 5–9
| align="right" | 1 646 122 
| align="right" | 1 589 070
| align="right" | 3 235 192
| align="right" | 15.04
|-
| align="right" | 10–14
| align="right" | 1 367 531
| align="right" | 1 390 910
| align="right" | 2 758 441
| align="right" | 12.82
|-
| align="right" | 15–19
| align="right" | 1 122 566
| align="right" | 1 204 719
| align="right" | 2 327 285
| align="right" | 10.82
|-
| align="right" | 20–24
| align="right" | 908 843
| align="right" | 1 033 776
| align="right" | 1 942 619
| align="right" | 9.03
|-
| align="right" | 25–29
| align="right" | 730 372
| align="right" | 884 547
| align="right" | 1 614 919
| align="right" | 7.51
|-
| align="right" | 30–34
| align="right" | 588 794
| align="right" | 728 172
| align="right" | 1 316 966
| align="right" | 6.12
|-
| align="right" | 35–39
| align="right" | 468 316
| align="right" | 586 269
| align="right" | 1 054 585
| align="right" | 4.90
|-
| align="right" | 40–44
| align="right" | 372 345
| align="right" | 466 984
| align="right" | 839 329
| align="right" | 3.90
|-
| align="right" | 45–49
| align="right" | 300 835
| align="right" | 370 491
| align="right" | 671 326
| align="right" | 3.12
|-
| align="right" | 50–54
| align="right" | 248 194
| align="right" | 293 790
| align="right" | 541 984
| align="right" | 2.52
|-
| align="right" | 55–59
| align="right" | 194 917
| align="right" | 224 363
| align="right" | 419 280
| align="right" | 1.95
|-
| align="right" | 60–64
| align="right" | 149 409
| align="right" | 164 492
| align="right" | 313 901
| align="right" | 1.46
|-
| align="right" | 65–69
| align="right" | 112 992
| align="right" | 120 551
| align="right" | 233 543
| align="right" | 1.09
|-
| align="right" | 70–74
| align="right" | 83 974
| align="right" | 84 008 
| align="right" | 167 982
| align="right" | 0.78
|-
| align="right" | 75–79
| align="right" | 60 706
| align="right" | 51 775
| align="right" | 112 481
| align="right" | 0.52
|-
| align="right" | 80+
| align="right" | 65 417
| align="right" | 61 868
| align="right" | 127 285
| align="right" | 0.59
|-
! width="50"|Age group 
! width="80pt"|Male
! width="80"|Female
! width="80"|Total
! width="50"|Percent
|-
| align="right" | 0–14
| align="right" | 4 985 561
| align="right" | 4 840 397
| align="right" | 9 825 958
| align="right" | 45.68
|-
| align="right" | 15–64
| align="right" | 5 084 591
| align="right" | 5 957 603
| align="right" | 11 042 194
| align="right" | 51.34
|-
| align="right" | 65+
| align="right" | 323 089
| align="right" | 318 202
| align="right" | 641 291
| align="right" | 2.98
|-
|}