28.25270081%
Individuals using the Internet (% of population) in 2024.
Internet use · BFA · 2024
Burkina Faso internet use rate: 28.25270081%
28.25270081% of people in Burkina Faso used the internet in 2024. Among the 182 countries currently included in this verified same-year dataset, Burkina Faso ranks 167th.
2024 OBSERVATION · BFA · IT.NET.USER.ZSHow Burkina Faso compares
167th of 182
This rank applies only to the countries currently included in this verified same-year dataset, not to a complete worldwide ranking.
53.850696559999996 pp below median
Burkina Faso is 53.850696559999996 percentage points below the 82.10339737% median of the 182 included countries and 71.74729919 percentage points below the highest included value of 100%.
Closest included countries
Somalia, Fed. Rep.
27.94020081% in 2024, 0.3125 percentage points lower.
Solomon Islands
29.04070091% in 2024, 0.7880001000000014 percentage points higher.
Guinea-Bissau
29.77739906% in 2024, 1.5246982500000001 percentage points higher.
Definition and provenance
Indicator: IT.NET.USER.ZS — Individuals using the Internet (% of population).
Individuals who have used the Internet from any location in the last 3 months.
Source: International Telecommunication Union (ITU), World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Database, surfaced via World Bank World Development Indicators (WDI), Indicators API v2. Unit: % of population. License: CC BY-4.0.
Observation year: 2024. Retrieved: 23 August 2026. Retrieval date is not treated as the observation year.
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Scope note
This page reports the 2024 observation from the same validated same-year dataset used by the parent comparison. It does not claim a historical WDI revision, a causal explanation or a complete global rank.