Purchasing Power Parity · Burkina Faso
Cost of living in 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso vs the United States
Burkina Faso has a US-relative price level of 0.354 (US = 1.0) — about 65% cheaper than the United States. Reference year 2025.
What US salaries are worth in Burkina Faso
| US income | Feels like (US-equivalent) | Cost of a US lifestyle |
|---|---|---|
| $50,000 | $141,243 | $17,700 |
| $80,000 | $225,989 | $28,320 |
| $120,000 | $338,983 | $42,480 |
| $180,000 | $508,475 | $63,720 |
| $250,000 | $706,215 | $88,500 |
“Feels like” = income ÷ price level; “cost of a US lifestyle” = income × price level. Try your own number in the interactive calculator.
How the sources compare
Each provider measures Burkina Faso's price level slightly differently; a tight spread means high confidence.
Consensus (median) 0.354 2025
World Bank — GDP 0.374 2025
IMF (WEO) 0.367 2025
Penn World Table 0.337 2023
World Bank — Consumption 0.332 2025
Cost of living around the world
Every country shaded by its price level relative to the US (darker = more expensive). Burkina Faso is outlined.
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Countries with a similar cost of living
- 🇧🇯 Benin — price level 0.353
- 🇬🇶 Equatorial Guinea — price level 0.353
- 🇸🇿 Eswatini — price level 0.353
- 🇱🇸 Lesotho — price level 0.353
- 🇦🇴 Angola — price level 0.357
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Frequently asked questions
- How expensive is Burkina Faso compared to the United States?
- Burkina Faso has a price level of 0.354 relative to the US baseline of 1.0 (about 65% cheaper than the United States), based on the median of independent votes from the World Bank/IMF (one vote — both use the official exchange rate), the Eurostat-OECD PPP programme and the Penn World Table, reference year 2025.
- What is a $100,000 salary worth in Burkina Faso?
- In purchasing-power terms, $100,000 stretches to about $282,486 of US-equivalent lifestyle in Burkina Faso; conversely, sustaining a $100,000 US lifestyle there costs about $35,400.
- Where does the Burkina Faso cost-of-living data come from?
- Real price-level figures from the World Bank, IMF World Economic Outlook, OECD, Eurostat and Penn World Table, blended as a per-country median of independent votes and refreshed at build time.