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Economy
Overview: A landlocked, resource-poor country in an early
stage of economic development, Burundi is predominately
agricultural with only a few basic industries. Its economic
health is dependent on the coffee crop, which accounts for
an average 90% of foreign exchange earnings each year. The
ability to pay for imports therefore continues to rest largely
on the vagaries of the climate and the international coffee
market.
GDP: $1.3 billion, per capita $255; real growth rate 2.8% (1988).
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 4.4% (1988 est.).
Unemployment rate: NA%.
Budget: revenues $213 million; expenditures $292 million,
including capital expenditures of $131 million (1988 est.).
Exports: $128 million (f.o.b., 1988); commodities--coffee
88%, tea, hides and skins; partners--EC 83%, US 5%, Asia 2%.
Imports: $204 million (c.i.f., 1988); commodities--capital
goods 31%, petroleum products 15%, foodstuffs, consumer goods;
partners--EC 57%, Asia 23%, US 3%.
External debt: $795 million (December 1989 est.).
Industrial production: real growth rate 5.1% (1986).
Electricity: 51,000 kW capacity; 105 million kWh produced,
19 kWh per capita (1989).
Industries: light consumer goods such as blankets, shoes,
soap; assembly of imports; public works construction; food
processing.
Agriculture: accounts for 60% of GDP; 90% of population
dependent on subsistence farming; marginally self-sufficient
in food production; cash crops--coffee, cotton, tea; food crops--
corn, sorghum, sweet potatoes, bananas, manioc; livestock--meat,
milk, hides, and skins.
Aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-88), $68 million;
Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-87), $10 billion; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $32
million; Communist countries (1970-88), $175 million.
Currency: Burundi franc (plural--francs); 1 Burundi franc
(FBu) = 100 centimes.
Exchange rates: Burundi francs (FBu) per US$1--176.20 (January
1990), 158.67 (1989), 140.40 (1988), 123.56 (1987), 114.17
(1986), 120.69 (1985).
Fiscal year: calendar year.