| People | Burundi |
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Economy - overview:
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Burundi is a landlocked, resource-poor country with an underdeveloped manufacturing sector. The economy is predominantly agricultural with more than 90% of the population dependent on subsistence agriculture. Economic growth depends on coffee and tea exports, which account for 90% of foreign exchange earnings. The ability to pay for imports, therefore, rests primarily on weather conditions and international coffee and tea prices. The Tutsi minority, 14% of the population, dominates the government and the coffee trade at the expense of the Hutu majority, 85% of the population. An ethnic-based war that lasted for over a decade resulted in more than 200,000 deaths, forced more than 48,000 refugees into Tanzania, and displaced 140,000 others internally. Only one in two children go to school, and approximately one in 15 adults has HIV/AIDS. Food, medicine, and electricity remain in short supply. Burundi's GDP grew around 5% annually in 2006-07. Political stability and the end of the civil war have improved aid flows and economic activity has increased, but underlying weaknesses - a high poverty rate, poor education rates, a weak legal system, and low administrative capacity - risk undermining planned economic reforms. Burundi will continue to remain heavily dependent on aid from bilateral and multilateral donors; the delay of funds after a corruption scandal cut off bilateral aid in 2007 reduced government's revenues and its ability to pay salaries. |
GDP (purchasing power parity):
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$6.389 billion (2007 est.) |
GDP (official exchange rate):
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$989 million (2007 est.) |
GDP - real growth rate:
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5.5% (2007 est.) |
GDP - per capita (PPP):
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$800 (2007 est.) |
GDP - composition by sector:
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agriculture: 44.9%
industry: 20.9%
services: 34.1% (2006 est.) |
Investment (gross fixed):
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25.9% of GDP (2007 est.) |
Population below poverty line:
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68% (2002 est.) |
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
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lowest 10%: 1.7%
highest 10%: 32.8% (1998) |
Distribution of family income - Gini index:
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42.4 (1998) |
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
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7% (2007 est.) |
Labor force:
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2.99 million (2002) |
Labor force participation rate:
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34.40 % of population |
Labor force - by occupation:
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agriculture: 93.6%
industry: 2.3%
services: 4.1% (2002 est.) |
Unemployment rate:
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NA% |
Budget:
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revenues: $259.4 million
expenditures: $331.8 million; including capital expenditures of $NA (2007 est.) |
Budget revenues per capita:
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30 USD per capita |
Public debt:
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void |
Industries:
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light consumer goods such as blankets, shoes, soap; assembly of imported components; public works construction; food processing |
Industrial production growth rate:
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7.5% (2007 est.) |
Electricity - production:
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137 million kWh (2005) |
Electricity - production per capita:
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16 kWh per capita |
Electricity - consumption:
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161.4 million kWh (2005) |
Electricity - consumption - per capita:
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19 kWh per capita |
Electricity - exports:
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0 kWh (2005) |
Electricity - imports:
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34 million kWh; note - supplied by the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2005) |
Oil - production:
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0 bbl/day (2005) |
Oil - production per capita:
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void |
Oil - consumption:
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2,900 bbl/day (2005 est.) |
Oil - consumption - per capita:
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0.12 bbl/year per capita |
Oil - exports:
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0 bbl/day (2004) |
Oil - imports:
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2,687 bbl/day (2004) |
Oil - proved reserves:
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0 bbl (1 January 2006 est.) |
Natural gas - production:
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0 cu m (2005 est.) |
Natural gas - production per capita:
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void |
Natural gas - consumption:
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0 cu m (2005 est.) |
Natural gas - consumption - per capita:
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void |
Natural gas - exports:
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0 cu m (2005 est.) |
Natural gas - imports:
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0 cu m (2005) |
Natural gas - proved reserves:
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0 cu m (1 January 2006 est.) |
Agriculture - products:
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coffee, cotton, tea, corn, sorghum, sweet potatoes, bananas, manioc (tapioca); beef, milk, hides |
Current account balance:
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-$137.3 million (2007 est.) |
Current account balance - per capita:
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-15 USD per capita |
Exports:
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$74.17 million f.o.b. (2007 est.) |
Exports per capita:
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9 USD per capita |
Exports - commodities:
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coffee, tea, sugar, cotton, hides |
Exports - partners:
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Switzerland 33.7%, UK 12.2%, Pakistan 8.5%, Rwanda 5.3%, Egypt 4.2% (2006) |
Imports:
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$340.2 million f.o.b. (2007 est.) |
Imports per capita:
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40 USD per capita |
Imports - commodities:
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capital goods, petroleum products, foodstuffs |
Imports - partners:
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Saudi Arabia 12.6%, Kenya 8.2%, Japan 7.8%, Russia 4.7%, UK 4.6%, France 4.4%, China 4.4% (2006) |
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
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$117.7 million (31 December 2007 est.) |
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold - per capita:
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14 USD per capita |
Debt - external:
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$1.2 billion (2003) |
Debt - external - per capita:
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139 USD per capita |
Stock of direct foreign investment - at home:
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void |
Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad:
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void |
Market value of publicly traded shares:
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$NA |
Economic aid - donor:
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void |
Economic aid - recipient:
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$365 million (2005) |
Economic aid - recipient per capita:
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42 USD per capita |
Currency (code):
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Burundi franc (BIF) |
Exchange rates:
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Burundi francs per US dollar - 1,065 (2007), 1,030 (2006), 1,138 (2005), 1,100.91 (2004), 1,082.62 (2003) |
Fiscal year:
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calendar year |
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