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Agriculture > products coffee, cotton, tea, corn, sorghum, sweet potatoes, bananas, manioc; beef, milk, hides |
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Aid as % of GDP
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13.5% |
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[21st of 129]
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Debt > External
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$1,200,000,000.00 |
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[108th of 136]
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Distribution of family income > Gini index
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42.4 |
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[19th of 43]
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Economy > Overview 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. |
Exchange rates Burundi francs per US dollar - 1,100.91 (2004), 1,082.62 (2003), 930.75 (2002), 830.35 (2001), 720.67 (2000) |
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Exports
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$44,000,000.00 |
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[151st of 189]
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GDP
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$806,617,200.00 |
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[151st of 203]
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GDP > PPP
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$4,957,000,000.00 |
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[139th of 163]
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GDP > Real growth rate
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3.6% |
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[134th of 198]
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GDP growth > annual %
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0.91 annual %
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[160th of 187]
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GINI index
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42.39
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[21st of 40]
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Gross National Income
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$692,344,000.00 |
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[144th of 172]
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Human Development Index
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0.378 |
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[170th of 178]
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Income category
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Low income |
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Income distribution > Poorest 10%
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1.8% |
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[86th of 114]
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Income distribution > Richest 10%
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32.9% |
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[40th of 114]
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Population below poverty line
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68% |
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[5th of 46]
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Research and development spending
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0.3% |
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[51st of 69]
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Tourist arrivals
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11,000 |
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[147th of 152]
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SOURCES: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; calculated on the basis of data on ODA from OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), Development Assistance Committee. 2002. DAC Online. Database. Paris.; and data on GDP from World Bank. 2002. World Development Indicators 2002. CD-ROM. Washington, DC; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; World Development Indicators database and CIA World Factbook; World Bank. 2005. World Development Indicators 2005.; World Development Indicators database; ; Human Development Report 2006, United Nations Development Programme; ; World Bank. 2002. World Development Indicators 2002. CD-ROM. Washington, DC; World Bank. 2002. World Development Indicators 2002. CD-ROM. Washington, DC; aggregates calculated for the Human Development Report Office by the World Bank; United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook
ALTERNATIVE NAMES:
Burundi, Republic of Burundi, Republika y'u Burundi
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