Blaise Compaoré
Legacy
🇧🇫Burkina Faso
Rank #321
Score: 42
About Blaise Compaoré
Blaise Compaoré (b.1951) was President of Burkina Faso (1987–2014). He took power after the 1987 coup that killed Thomas Sankara and led for 27 years; his long rule combined regional influence and economic reforms with accusations of authoritarianism, human-rights abuses and corruption—he was later convicted in absentia over Sankara's killing.
HDI
Burkina Faso HDI ≈ 0.459 (Low)2/10
GDP per capita
Burkina Faso GDP per capita (PPP) — low income2/10
Gini coefficient
Gini ≈ 37.4 (World Bank / CEIC)3/10
Employment rate
Employment-to-population ratio (ILOSTAT / national data)3/5
Freedom index
Freedom House — long-standing restrictions and human-rights concerns associated with Compaoré era and later trials2/10
Corruption index
Transparency Int'l — CPI and corruption reporting (historical concerns during long Compaoré rule)1/5
Derived Criminal Score
Convicted in absentia (life sentence) for complicity in the 1987 assassination of Thomas Sankara (trial concluded 2022); conviction widely reported.0/20