Member state

Burkina Faso at the United Nations

Flag of Burkina Faso.svg by Drawn by SKopp, rewritten by Gabbe and Андрей Перцев (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons

Admitted: 1960-09-20
ISO 3166-1: BF / BFA
Admitted by: A/RES/1483 (XV)
Formerly: Upper Volta, until 4 August 1984

International organisations

Every organisation this state belongs to that is compiled here, with the date it joined. Membership is resolved against this site’s own list of member states rather than taken from a query.

Organisation	Joined
United Nations	1960-09-20
World Meteorological Organization	1960-10-31
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization	1960-11-14
International Telecommunication Union	1962-01-16
Universal Postal Union	1963-03-29
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development	1963-05-02
Organisation of Islamic Cooperation	1974
World Health Organization	not recorded
World Trade Organization	not recorded
African Union	not recorded

Peacekeeping contribution

Uniformed personnel this state had deployed to UN missions in 2026-07-31, the most recent month the UN Peace and Security Data Hub reports. Counts are deployments, not distinct people.

Personnel	Deployed	Of whom women
Individual Police	61	21
Staff Officer	3	0
Experts on Mission	3	1

Every contributor, month by month

Position in General Assembly voting

A statistical estimate of where this state sat on the main axis of General Assembly voting, not a record of any vote. The range is what the model treats as credible; neither end of the scale is the better one.

Year	Estimate	Credible range	Votes cast
2025	-0.93	-1.28 to -0.61	169
2024	-0.96	-1.24 to -0.67	87
2023	-0.55	-0.85 to -0.27	62
2022	-0.43	-0.70 to -0.18	66
2021	-0.60	-0.93 to -0.32	73
2020	-0.44	-0.78 to -0.15	78

Every state's position

People of concern

As recorded by UNHCR’s Refugee Data Finder for 2025 — UNHCR’s own reporting categories, not a census.

Category	People
Refugees hosted	40,996
Asylum-seekers hosted	1,957
Internally displaced	2,062,534
Refugees from Burkina Faso abroad	351,209

Population projection

United Nations World Population Prospects, median variant — a projection, not a count.

2025	2030	2035	2040	2045	2050
24,074,580	26,730,324	29,469,746	32,193,645	34,829,690	37,304,383

Service on principal organs

Elected terms as recorded by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library. A year marked pending is one the Library publishes as a partial list because its elections have not yet been held.

Permanent mission

Mission: Permanent Mission of Burkina Faso to the United Nations
Address: Permanent Mission of Burkina Faso to the United Nations, 633 Third Avenue, Suite 31A, 31st Floor between 40th and 41st Streets, New York, NY 10017
National holiday: 11 December
Accredited diplomats: 14

Accredited diplomats

Mr. Seydou Sinka Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary / Permanent Representative
Mr. Ouinibani Konate Ambassador / Deputy Permanent Representative
Mrs. Salamata Odette Niamba Congo Minister Counsellor
Ms. Wendbigda Honorine Bonkoungou First Counsellor
Mr. Halidou Savadogo First Counsellor
Mr. Wendpanga Jean Didier Ramde First Counsellor
Mr. Levi Yameogo First Counsellor
Mr. Dofini Aubin Tiahoun First Counsellor
Mr. Vincent Ido Second Secretary
Mr. Faboule Bamoule Attaché
Mrs. Abibata Bamoule Sawadogo Attaché
Mr. Gervais Remen Attaché / Defense Attaché
Mrs. Jeanne Clarisse Korotimie Ramde Zagre Attaché
Mr. Gustave Billa Attaché / Financial Attaché

The numbers

Indicator	Latest	Year
Adult literacy rate	41.57	2023
CO2 emissions per capita	0.275	2024
GDP	27,627,297,461	2025
GNI per capita	980	2025
Life expectancy at birth	61.29	2024
Military expenditure (% of GDP)	4.68	2024
Net official development assistance received	1,436,421,997	2023
Population	24,074,580	2025
Refugees hosted (UNHCR mandate)	40,996	2025
Refugees originating (UNHCR mandate)	351,209	2025

World Bank, World Development Indicators, CC BY 4.0. The sparkline shows the shape of each run from its first reported year; the number beside it carries the magnitude, and there is deliberately no axis on it.

General Debate statements

60 statements to the General Debate since 1962, 169,893 words in all. The longest was 1974, at 10,246 words, delivered by Mr. Zerbo.

Of the 32 statements since 1994 whose speaker’s post the record gives: Minister for Foreign Affairs ×13, President ×11, Prime Minister ×1, Minister of Foreign Affairs ×1. Earlier years are excluded because UN records do not consistently identify a speaker’s post before 1994, and counting those years as though they did would make any state look as though it sent nobody senior.

2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 1985 1984 1983 1982 1981 1980 1979 1978 1977 1976 1975 1974 1973 1972 1971 1969 1967 1966 1963 1962

Emblems and location

Coat of arms. Coat of arms of Burkina Faso (1984-2025).svg by F l a n k e r (CC BY-SA) — Wikimedia Commons

Location of Burkina Faso — Location. BFA orthographic.svg by Addicted04 (CC BY-SA) — Wikimedia Commons

Treaties joined

78 actions recorded by the Secretary-General as depositary. Only treaties whose participant counts match the depositary’s own stated totals contribute rows.

Treaty	Signed	Ratified or acceded
Revised General Act for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes	-	27 Mar 1962 a
Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations	-	27 Apr 1962 a
Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the Specialized Agencies	-	6 Apr 1962 a
Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations	-	4 May 1987 a
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations	24 Apr 1963	11 Aug 1964
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes	24 Apr 1963	11 Aug 1964
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide	-	14 Sep 1965 a
International Convention against Apartheid in Sports	16 May 1986	29 Jun 1988
Convention on the Rights of the Child	26 Jan 1990	31 Aug 1990
International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families	16 Nov 2001	26 Nov 2003
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities	23 May 2007	23 Jul 2009
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance	6 Feb 2007	3 Dec 2009
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination	-	18 Jul 1974 a
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights	-	4 Jan 1999 a
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights	-	4 Jan 1999 a
Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights	-	4 Jan 1999 a
International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid	3 Feb 1976	24 Oct 1978
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women	-	14 Oct 1987 a
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment	-	4 Jan 1999 a
Constitution of the World Health Organization	-	4 Oct 1960 A
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control	22 Dec 2003	31 Jul 2006
Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness	-	3 Aug 2017 a
Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees	-	18 Jun 1980 a
Protocol Bringing under International Control Drugs Outside the Scope of the Convention of 13 July 1931 for Limiting the Manufacture and Regulating the Distribution of Narcotic Drugs, as amended by the Protocol signed at Lake Success, New York, on 11 December 1946	-	26 Apr 1963 A
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961	-	16 Sep 1969 a
Convention on psychotropic substances	-	20 Jan 1987 a
United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances	-	2 Jun 1992 a
Multilateral Agreement for the Establishment of an International Think Tank for Landlocked Developing Countries	-	10 Nov 2016 a
Agreement establishing the African Development Bank	21 Nov 1963	22 Sep 1964
United Nations Convention on the International Effects of Judicial Sales of Ships	5 Sep 2023	-
Convention on Transit Trade of Land-locked States	-	23 Mar 1987 a
Articles of Association for the establishment of an Economic Community of West Africa	-	4 May 1967 s
Agreement establishing the International Fund for Agricultural Development	-	14 Dec 1977 a
Constitution of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization	16 Nov 1979	9 Jul 1982
Protocol on Road Signs and Signals	-	31 Aug 2009 a
United Nations Convention on the Carriage of Goods by Sea, 1978	-	14 Aug 1989 a
Convention on a Code of Conduct for Liner Conferences	-	30 Mar 1989 a
Agreement on the Importation of Educational, Scientific and Cultural Materials	-	14 Sep 1965 A
International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations	-	14 Oct 1987 a
Convention for the Protection of Producers of Phonograms against Unauthorized Duplication of their Phonograms	-	14 Oct 1987 a
Protocol to the Agreement on the Importation of Educational, Scientific and Cultural Materials of 22 November 1950	-	3 Dec 2009 a
Statutes of the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology	-	30 Sep 2014 a
Convention on the Political Rights of Women	-	9 Dec 1998 a
Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages	-	8 Dec 1964 a
Convention on the International Right of Correction	-	23 Mar 1987 a
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court	30 Nov 1998	16 Apr 2004
International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism	-	1 Oct 2003 a
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime	15 Dec 2000	15 May 2002
Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Criminal Court	7 May 2004	10 Oct 2005
United Nations Convention against Corruption	10 Dec 2003	10 Oct 2006
United Nations Convention against Cybercrime; Strengthening International Cooperation for Combating Certain Crimes Committed by Means of Information and Communications Technology Systems and for the Sharing of Evidence in Electronic Form of Serious Crimes	25 Oct 2025	-
International Convention Against the Taking of Hostages	-	1 Oct 2003 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents	-	1 Oct 2003 a
Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel	-	27 Oct 2008 a
International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings	-	1 Oct 2003 a
Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction	25 Sep 2024	-
Convention on the High Seas	-	4 Oct 1965 a
Convention on Fishing and Conservation of the Living Resources of the High Seas	-	4 Oct 1965 a
Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks	15 Oct 1996	-
Protocol on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Seabed Authority	-	6 Oct 2017 a
Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards	-	23 Mar 1987 a
European Convention on International Commercial Arbitration	-	26 Jan 1965 a
Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties between States and International Organizations or between International Organizations	21 Mar 1986	-
Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons which may be deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to have Indiscriminate Effects (with Protocols I, II and III)	-	26 Nov 2003 a
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction	14 Jan 1993	8 Jul 1997
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty	27 Sep 1996	17 Apr 2002
Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction	3 Dec 1997	16 Sep 1998
Convention on Cluster Munitions	3 Dec 2008	16 Feb 2010
Arms Trade Treaty	3 Jun 2013	3 Jun 2014
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons	22 Sep 2022	-
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa	14 Oct 1994	26 Jan 1996
Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses	-	22 Mar 2011 a
Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade	11 Sep 1998	11 Nov 2002
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants	23 May 2001	31 Dec 2004
Minamata Convention on Mercury	10 Oct 2013	10 Apr 2017
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer	12 Dec 1985	30 Mar 1989
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal	-	4 Nov 1999 a
Convention on Biological Diversity	12 Jun 1992	2 Sep 1993

Recorded votes

Resolution	Date	Vote
A/RES/80/290	2026-07-10	yes
A/RES/80/282	-	non-voting
A/RES/80/286	-	yes
A/RES/80/296	-	yes
A/RES/80/293 B	-	yes
A/RES/80/294	-	yes
A/RES/80/293 A	-	yes
A/RES/80/297	-	yes
A/RES/80/299	-	yes

Provenance

Every fact on this page, with where it came from and how sure we are.

Attribute	Value	Source	Confidence	Fetched
iso2	BF	wikidata	1.0	2026-10-12T02:20:06.561056+00:00
iso3	BFA	wikidata	1.0	2026-10-12T02:20:06.561087+00:00
m49	854	un_sdg	1.0	2026-10-12T02:20:11.768108+00:00
name	Burkina Faso	wikidata	1.0	2026-10-12T02:20:06.561044+00:00
un_admission_date	1960-09-20	wikidata	1.0	2026-10-12T02:20:06.561050+00:00
unsd_name	Burkina Faso	un_sdg	1.0	2026-10-12T02:20:11.768121+00:00

Where this page comes from

UN General Assembly ideal point estimates — CC0 1.0 · source
UN General Debate Corpus (Jankin, Baturo & Dasandi) — CC0 1.0 · source
UN Statistics Division SDG Indicators API — CC BY 4.0 · source
UNHCR Refugee Data Finder — Unassessed · source
Wikidata — CC0 1.0 · source
World Bank Open Data — CC BY 4.0 · source