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Burkina Faso’s trade: exports, imports and the trade balance

Burkina Faso’s goods trade from official statistics: exports, imports and the balance.

Updated November 5, 2026

Bobo-Dioulasso railway station on the line to Abidjan, in 2012
Bobo-Dioulasso railway station on the line to Abidjan, in 2012. Photo: Adam Jones / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0

This page gathers the latest figures on this topic, each checked against its official source, and every Alama Report story on it. It is updated as new data comes out.

Latest figures

Goods exports, quarterly
2,334.4bn FCFA (€3.56bn) · Q2 2026
Source: https://www.insd.bf/sites/default/files/2026-10/SCE_2T2026.pdf
Gold’s share of export receipts
93.5% · Q2 2026
+2.9 pts from Q1 2026
Source: https://www.insd.bf/sites/default/files/2026-10/SCE_2T2026.pdf

Figures checked against their source. Euro equivalents at the fixed parity of 655.957 FCFA per euro.

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