Burundi 
Facts
Population: 8,390,505
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 2007 est.).
Age structure: 0-14 years: 46.3% (male 1,951,879/female 1,930,371)
15-64 years: 51.2% (male 2,131,759/female 2,162,093)
65 years and over: 2.6% (male 85,522/female 128,881) (2007 est.).
Population growth rate: 3.593% (2007 est.).
Birth rate: 41.97 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Death rate: 13.17 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Net migration rate: 7.13 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Sex ratio: at birth: 1.03 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.011 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 0.986 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.664 male(s)/female
total population: 0.988 male(s)/female (2007 est.).
Infant mortality rate: total: 61.93 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 68.91 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 54.75 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 51.29 years
male: 50.48 years
female: 52.12 years (2007 est.).
Total fertility rate: 6.48 children born/woman (2007 est.).
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 6% (2003 est.).
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 250,000 (2003 est.).
HIV/AIDS - deaths: 25,000 (2003 est.).
Nationality: noun: Burundian(s)
adjective: Burundian.
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: 59.3%
male: 67.3%
female: 52.2% (2000 est.).
GDP (purchasing power parity): $5.781 billion (2006 est.).
GDP - real growth rate: 3.8% (2006 est.).
GDP - per capita (PPP): $700 (2006 est.).
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 44.9%
industry: 20.9%
services: 34.1% (2006 est.).
Labor force: 2.99 million (2002).
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 93.6%
industry: 2.3%
services: 4.1% (2002 est.).
Population below poverty line: 68% (2002 est.).
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 1.8%
highest 10%: 32.9% (1998).
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 11% (2006 est.).
Unemployment rate: NA%.
Budget: revenues: $239.9 million
expenditures: $297 million; including capital expenditures of $NA (2006 est.).
Agriculture - products: coffee, cotton, tea, corn, sorghum, sweet potatoes, bananas, manioc (tapioca); beef, milk, hides.
Industries: light consumer goods such as blankets, shoes, soap; assembly of imported components; public works construction; food processing.
Industrial production growth rate: 18% (2001).
Electricity - production: 137 million kWh (2004).
Electricity - consumption: 157.4 million kWh (2004).
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (2004).
Electricity - imports: 30 million kWh; note - supplied by the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2004).
Exports: $55.68 million f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Exports - commodities: coffee, tea, sugar, cotton, hides.
Exports - partners: Germany 24.6%, Belgium 11.2%, Netherlands 8.1%, Switzerland 5.9%, US 4.7% (2005).
Imports: $207.3 million f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Imports - commodities: capital goods, petroleum products, foodstuffs.
Imports - partners: Kenya 17.1%, Tanzania 10%, Belgium 9.9%, Italy 7.7%, France 5.1%, Uganda 5%, China 4.7% (2005).
Debt - external: $1.2 billion (2003).
Economic aid - recipient: $105.5 million (2003).
Currency (code): Burundi franc (BIF).
Exchange rates: Burundi francs per US dollar - 1,030 (2006), 1,138 (2005), 1,100.91 (2004), 1,082.62 (2003), 930.75 (2002).
Fiscal year: calendar year.
Statistics: C.I.A. World Factbook. Updated: July 20, 2007.
Press
Le Renouveau du Burundi
(Government-owned), Bujumbura
Burundi in the News
Burundi's future appeared rosy as international donors pledged $665.6 million in May for a three-year poverty reduction plan, but a brewing political crisis could upset everything.
World Press Review correspondent Brent Gregston speaks with Burundian President Domitien Ndayizeye about his country's efforts to put 11 years of bloody civil strife behind it.
World Press Review correspondent Dan Teng'o reviews regional press coverage of the Dar es Salaam summit that produced a cease-fire in Burundi.
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