Diplomatic briefing
Embassy of India
EmbassyBurkina Faso · Ambassador: Shri Om Prakash Meena
9 figures · 2 sources · built 2 hours ago
In short
India’s embassy in Burkina Faso records bilateral trade of $579.8m, a reported community of 1,001 and a UN voting alignment with India of 73%. Led by Shri Om Prakash Meena, ambassador.
Total bilateral trade
$579.8m
US dollars · as stated in the brief
Source· retrieved 2 hours ago
Bilateral Brief — Burkina Faso
Source: Ministry of External Affairs, India
Where: “Economic and Commercial Relations:” section
“(in US $ millions) Sl. No. Item 2021-22 2022-23 2023-24 2024-25 2025-26 1 2 Exports Imports 196.64 425.44 176.78 116.34 120.82 203.05 144.39 80.43 145.74 434.07 Total Trade 622.08 293.12 323.87 224.82 579.81”
Published: undated · Read: 8 October 2026
Read from the briefing by a language model. The quoted sentence was verified by string matching against the extracted PDF text before this figure was accepted.
Overseas Indians
Medium confidence1,001
persons · as of Jan 2026
Source· retrieved 1 day ago
Population of Overseas Indians
Source: Ministry of External Affairs, India
Where: row "Burkina Faso"
“PIOs 1 + NRIs 1,000 = 1,001”
Published: undated · Read: 7 October 2026
MEA publishes no methodology for these estimates and told a Parliamentary committee it holds "no authentic data". The page also repeats some countries from an older vintage with the PIO/NRI columns swapped; the first occurrence is used here. This country appears 2× on the page.
UN votes matching India’s
73%
share of UNGA votes matching India’s · UNGA session 78
Source· retrieved 12 hours ago
United Nations General Assembly Voting Data — Ideal Point Estimates
Source: Bailey, Strezhnev & Voeten — Harvard Dataverse
Where: row “Burkina Faso”, session 78, IndiaAgree over 63 votes
Published: undated · Read: 8 October 2026
UN General Assembly Voting Data (v39), non-commercial licence. The share is the dataset’s own IndiaAgree column — roll-call votes on which this country and India voted the same way, as the dataset defines agreement — not our calculation. Independent of MEA.
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The relationship, in figures
Trade
Exports to Burkina FasoUS dollars · as stated in the brief$145.7m
Bilateral Brief — Burkina Faso
Source: Ministry of External Affairs, India
Where: “Economic and Commercial Relations:” section
“(in US $ millions) Sl. No. Item 2021-22 2022-23 2023-24 2024-25 2025-26 1 2 Exports Imports 196.64 425.44 176.78 116.34 120.82 203.05 144.39 80.43 145.74 434.07 Total Trade 622.08 293.12 323.87 224.82 579.81”
Published: undated · Read: 8 October 2026
Read from the briefing by a language model. The quoted sentence was verified by string matching against the extracted PDF text before this figure was accepted.
Imports from Burkina FasoUS dollars · as stated in the brief$434.1m
Bilateral Brief — Burkina Faso
Source: Ministry of External Affairs, India
Where: “Economic and Commercial Relations:” section
“(in US $ millions) Sl. No. Item 2021-22 2022-23 2023-24 2024-25 2025-26 1 2 Exports Imports 196.64 425.44 176.78 116.34 120.82 203.05 144.39 80.43 145.74 434.07 Total Trade 622.08 293.12 323.87 224.82 579.81”
Published: undated · Read: 8 October 2026
Read from the briefing by a language model. The quoted sentence was verified by string matching against the extracted PDF text before this figure was accepted.
Trade balance in India’s favourUS dollars · as stated in the brief · our calculation−$288.3m
Exports minus imports, as stated in the same briefing (in USD)
exports − imports
People
Indian community in Burkina Fasopersons · as stated in the brief1,500
Bilateral Brief — Burkina Faso
Source: Ministry of External Affairs, India
Where: “Indian Community:” section
“As of now, about 1500 Indians reside in Burkina Faso.”
Published: undated · Read: 8 October 2026
Read from the briefing by a language model. The quoted sentence was verified by string matching against the extracted PDF text before this figure was accepted.
Diplomacy
Most recent high-level visityear of the visit · as stated in the brief2025
Bilateral Brief — Burkina Faso
Source: Ministry of External Affairs, India
Where: “High-level Visits” section
“President/ Speaker of the Transitional Legislative Assembly (PALT) of Burkina Faso, Dr. Ousmane Bougouma, visited India from November 23-28, 2025 and called on Hon'ble Speaker, Lok Sabha, Shri Om Birla in Parliament House on November 27, 2025.”
Published: undated · Read: 8 October 2026
Read from the briefing by a language model. The quoted sentence was verified by string matching against the extracted PDF text before this figure was accepted.
Agreements on record (0)
MEA Treaties DatabaseMEA's treaties database returns no agreements recorded against this country.
The briefing
MEA publishes a bilateral brief — 47 sections, 15,874 characters of extractable text. Sections include: Brief on India-Burkina Faso Relations · Political Relations · High-level Visits · High Level Visits: · Bilateral Mechanism · Economic and Commercial Relations:.
Open the briefing (PDF)Where the sources disagree
Two public sources disagree on the size of the Indian community — 50% apart
- Overseas Indians1,001
- Indian community in Burkina Faso1,500
Both are published by the Ministry of External Affairs, with no stated methodology. Neither is averaged away or preferred — the disagreement is the honest answer.