Burundi is a landlocked, resource-poor country
with an underdeveloped manufacturing sector. The economy is
predominantely agricultural with roughly 90% of the population
dependent on subsistence agriculture. Its economic health depends on
the coffee crop, which accounts for 80% of foreign exchange earnings.
The ability to pay for imports therefore rests largely on the vagaries
of the climate and the international coffee market. Since October 1993
the nation has suffered from massive ethnic-based violence which has
resulted in the death of perhaps 250,000 persons and the displacement
of about 800,000 others. Foods, medicines, and electricity remain in
short supply.

purchasing power parity - $4.2 billion (1999 est.)

-1% (1999 est.)

purchasing power parity - $730 (1999 est.)

agriculture: 46%
industry: 17%
services: 37% (1998 est.)

36.2% (1990 est.)

lowest 10%: NA%
highest 10%: NA%

26% (1999 est.)

1.9 million

agriculture 93%, government 4%, industry
and commerce 1.5%, services 1.5% (1983 est.)

NA%

revenues: $125 million
expenditures: $176 million, including capital expenditures of $NA
(2000 est.)

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

NA%

127 million kWh (1998)

fossil fuel: 1.57%
hydro: 98.43%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (1998)

153 million kWh (1998)

0 kWh (1998)

35 million kWh
note: imports some electricity from Democratic Republic of the Congo
(1998)

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

$56 million (f.o.b., 1999)

coffee, tea, sugar, cotton, hides

UK, Germany, Benelux, Switzerland (1998)

$108 million (f.o.b., 1999)

capital goods, petroleum products, foodstuffs

Benelux, France, Zambia, Germany, Kenya, Japan
(1998)

$1.247 billion (1997 est.)

$1.344 billion (1999 est.)

1 Burundi franc (FBu) = 100 centimes

Burundi francs (FBu) per US$1 - 626.79 (January 2000),
563.56 (1999), 477.77 (1998), 352.35 (1997), 302.75 (1996), 249.76
(1995)

calendar year