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Burkina Faso
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Capital: Ouagadougou
Total Area: 105,869.21 sq mi,274,200.00 sq km,(slightly larger than Colorado)
Population: 12,272,289 (July 2001 est.),note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected
Estimated Population in 2050: 34,303,964
Languages: French (official), native African languages belonging to Sudanic family spoken by 90% of the population
Literacy: 19.2% total, 29.5% male, 9.2% female (1995 est.)
Religions: indigenous beliefs 40%, Muslim 50%, Christian (mainly Roman Catholic) 10%
Life Expectancy: 45.86 male, 46.98 female (2001 est.)
Government Type: parliamentary
Currency: 1 Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (CFAF) = 100 centimes
GDP (per capita): $1,000 (2000 est.)
Industry: cotton lint, beverages, agricultural processing, soap, cigarettes, textiles, gold
Agriculture: peanuts, shea nuts, sesame, cotton, sorghum, millet, corn, rice; livestock
Arable Land: 13%
Natural Resources: manganese, limestone, marble; small deposits of gold, antimony, copper, nickel, bauxite, lead, phosphates, zinc, silver
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