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Economy ::Burundi

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 rests primarily on weather conditions and international coffee and tea prices. The Tutsi minority, 14% of the population, dominates the coffee trade. 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 4% annually in 2006–08. 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.

GDP (purchasing power parity):

$3.109 billion (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 173 $2.976 billion (2007 est.)

$2.872 billion (2006 est.)

note: data are in 2008 US dollars

GDP (official exchange rate):

$1.097 billion (2008 est.)

GDP - real growth rate:

4.5% (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 96 3.6% (2007 est.)

5.1% (2006 est.)

GDP - per capita (PPP):

$300 (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 227 $300 (2007 est.)

$300 (2006 est.)

note: data are in 2008 US dollars

GDP - composition by sector:

agriculture: 33.4%

industry: 21%

services: 45.6% (2008 est.)

Labor force:

4.245 million (2007) country comparison to the world: 84

Labor force - by occupation:

agriculture: 93.6%

industry: 2.3%

services: 4.1% (2002 est.)

Unemployment rate: