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Burkina Faso vs Syria

Digital government compared, on the UN’s 2024 index and the figures behind it.

Syria leads on 3 of 5 measures, and the overall scores are 0.099 apart. Measured against what their incomes predict, Syria does more with what it has (+0.031, against −0.057 for Burkina Faso).

E-Government Index

Burkina Faso 0.289

Syria 0.389

Online services

Burkina Faso 0.338

Syria 0.307

Human capital

Burkina Faso 0.167

Syria 0.417

Telecoms

Burkina Faso 0.364

Syria 0.443

E-participation

Burkina Faso 0.219

Syria 0.069

Burkina FasoSyriaEach track runs from 0 to 1. The higher score in each row is in bold.
Burkina Faso and Syria: context figures
The contextBurkina FasoSyria
Income per person (PPP)$2,730$2,910
Population23.3 million23.2 million
Using the internet20%36%
Score vs what income predicts−0.057+0.031

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Sources: UN E-Government Survey 2024, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs; income per person (GDP, PPP) and population from the World Bank World Development Indicators, via the Quality of Government Standard Dataset, January 2025.