Names: conventional long form: Republic of Burundi conventional short form: Burundi local long form: Republique du Burundi/Republika y'u Burundi local short form: Burundi former: Urundi

Capital City: Bujumbura

Population: 8,090,068 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 2006 est.)

GDP Per Capita: $700 (2006 est.)

Currency: Burundi franc (BIF)

Languages: Kirundi (official), French (official), Swahili (along Lake Tanganyika and in the Bujumbura area)

Total Area: total: 27,830 sq km land: 25,650 sq km water: 2,180 sq km slightly smaller than Maryland

Region: Africa

Industries: light consumer goods such as blankets, shoes, soap; assembly of imported components; public works construction; food processing

Agriculture: coffee, cotton, tea, corn, sorghum, sweet potatoes, bananas, manioc (tapioca); beef, milk, hides

Resources: nickel, uranium, rare earth oxides, peat, cobalt, copper, platinum, vanadium, arable land, hydropower, niobium, tantalum, gold, tin, tungsten, kaolin, limestone

Labor Force: 2.99 million (2002)
agriculture: 93.6% industry: 2.3% services: 4.1% (2002 est.)

Exports: $55.68 million f.o.b. (2006 est.)
coffee, tea, sugar, cotton, hides

Imports: $207.3 million f.o.b. (2006 est.)
capital goods, petroleum products, foodstuffs

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 10 adults has HIV/AIDS. Food, medicine, and electricity remain in short supply. 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 grew about 5 percent in 2006. Delayed disbursements of funds from the World Bank may add to budget pressures in 2007. Burundi will continue to remain heavily dependent on aid from bilateral and multilateral donors.

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In 2007 Missouri exported $212,099 in goods to Burundi. This ranks Burundi 172^nd among the 223 international buyers of Missouri goods. Missouri exports to Burundi increased from the previous year by $108,499 a change of 104.73%. State exports to Burundi have increased over the last 5 years by $205,989 a change of 3371.34%. Missouri exports account for .00%. of all 2007 US exports to Burundi.