Burundi

Facts

Population:  6,223,897 note:  estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2001 est.)
Age structure:  0-14 years:  46.82% (male 1,472,618; female 1,441,548) 15-64 years:  50.37% (male 1,541,131; female 1,593,743) 65 years and over:  2.81% (male 71,984; female 102,873) (2001 est.)
Population growth rate:  2.38% (2001 est.)
Birth rate:  40.13 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Death rate:  16.36 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Net migration rate:  0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Sex ratio:  at birth:  1.03 male(s)/female under 15 years:  1.02 male(s)/female 15-64 years:  0.97 male(s)/female 65 years and over:  0.7 male(s)/female total population:  0.98 male(s)/female (2001 est.)
Infant mortality rate:  70.74 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:  total population:  46.06 years male:  45.15 years female:  46.99 years (2001 est.)
Total fertility rate:  6.16 children born/woman (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:  11.32% (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:  360,000 (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths:  39,000 (1999 est.)
Nationality:  noun:  Burundian(s) adjective:  Burundi
Ethnic groups:  Hutu (Bantu) 85%, Tutsi (Hamitic) 14%, Twa (Pygmy) 1%, Europeans 3,000, South Asians 2,000
Religions:  Christian 67% (Roman Catholic 62%, Protestant 5%), indigenous beliefs 23%, Muslim 10%
Languages:  Kirundi (official), French (official), Swahili (along Lake Tanganyika and in the Bujumbura area)
Literacy:  definition:  age 15 and over can read and write total population:  35.3% male:  49.3% female:  22.5% (1995 est.)
GDP:  purchasing power parity - $4.4 billion (2000 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:  1.8% (2000 est.)
GDP - per capita:  purchasing power parity - $720 (2000 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:  agriculture:  50% industry:  18% services:  32% (1999 est.)
Population below poverty line:  36.2% (1990 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:  lowest 10%:  3.4% highest 10%:  26.6% (1992)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):  22% (2000 est.)
Labor force:  1.9 million
Labor force - by occupation:  NA
Unemployment rate:  NA%
Budget:  revenues:  $125 million expenditures:  $176 million, including capital expenditures of $NA (2000 est.)
Industries:  light consumer goods such as blankets, shoes, soap; assembly of imported components; public works construction; food processing
Industrial production growth rate:  6.3% (1999 est.)
Electricity - production:  141 million kWh (1999)
Electricity - production by source:  fossil fuel:  0.71% hydro:  99.29% nuclear:  0% other:  0% (1999)
Electricity - consumption:  160.1 million kWh (1999)
Electricity - exports:  0 kWh (1999)
Electricity - imports:  29 million kWh note:  supplied by the Democratic Republic of the Congo (1999)
Agriculture - products:  coffee, cotton, tea, corn, sorghum, sweet potatoes, bananas, manioc (tapioca); beef, milk, hides
Exports:  $32 million (f.o.b., 2000)
Exports - commodities:  coffee, tea, sugar, cotton, hides
Exports - partners:  Germany 17%, Belgium 14%, US 8%, France 6%, Switzerland 4% (1999)
Imports:  $110 million (f.o.b., 2000)
Imports - commodities:  capital goods, petroleum products, foodstuffs
Imports - partners:  Belgium 20%, Zambia 11%, Kenya 8%, South Africa 5%, France 4% (1999)
Debt - external:  $1.12 billion (1999 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:  $1.344 billion (1999 est.)
Currency:  Burundi franc (BIF)
Currency code:  BIF
Exchange rates:  Burundi francs per US dollar - 782.36 (January 2001), 720.67 (2000), 563.56 (1999), 477.77 (1998), 352.35 (1997), 302.75 (1996)
Fiscal year:  calendar year

Statistics: CIA World Factbook.

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