Benin vs Burkina Faso: GDP

Benin
14.30 trillion current LCU
in 2025
Burkina Faso
16.08 trillion current LCU
in 2025
Benin rank
54th
Burkina Faso rank
52nd

GDP over time

  • Benin
  • Burkina Faso
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How they compare

Burkina Faso currently reports 16.08 trillion current LCU against 14.30 trillion current LCU in Benin, a difference of 1.78 trillion current LCU.

That makes Burkina Faso's figure about 1.1 times Benin's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 66 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Burkina Faso ahead.

Globally, Benin ranks 54th and Burkina Faso ranks 52nd of 213 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
GDP (current LCU)
Unit
current LCU
Source
Country official statistics, National Statistical Organizations and/or Central Banks
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
213 places, 11,862 data points, 1960–2025
Last refreshed

Gross domestic product is the total income earned through the production of goods and services in an economic territory during an accounting period. It can be measured in three different ways: using either the expenditure approach, the income approach, or the production approach. This indicator is expressed in current prices, meaning no adjustment has been made to account for price changes over time. This series is expressed in local currency units.