The 2008 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency
credit:
$342 million (31 December 2007)
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:
6.4% (2007 est.)
Electricity - production:
87 million kWh (2006 est.)
Electricity - consumption:
120.9 million kWh (2006 est.)
Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2007 est.)
Electricity - imports:
40 million kWh; note - supplied by the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2007 est.)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 0.6% hydro: 99.4% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (2001)
Oil - production:
0 bbl/day (2007 est.)
Oil - consumption:
2,956 bbl/day (2006 est.)
Oil - exports:
0 bbl/day (2005)
Oil - imports:
2,635 bbl/day (2005)
Oil - proved reserves:
0 bbl (1 January 2006 est.)
Natural gas - production:
0 cu m (2007 est.)
Natural gas - consumption:
0 cu m (2007 est.)
Natural gas - exports:
0 cu m (2007 est.)
Natural gas - imports:
0 cu m (2007 est.)
Natural gas - proved reserves:
0 cu m (1 January 2006 est.)
Current account balance:
-$101 million (2007 est.)
Exports:
$44 million f.o.b. (2007 est.)
Exports - commodities:
coffee, tea, sugar, cotton, hides
Exports - partners:
Germany 31.3%, Pakistan 6.8%, Belgium 5.8%, Sweden 4.3%, Rwanda 4.3%, France 4.2%, Sudan 4% (2007)
Imports:
$272 million f.o.b. (2007 est.)
Imports - commodities:
capital goods, petroleum products, foodstuffs
Imports - partners:
Saudi Arabia 17%, Kenya 11.4%, Belgium 8.7%, France 6.1%, Uganda 5.4%, Germany 5.4%, India 4.8%, Pakistan 4.2% (2007)
Economic aid - recipient:
$365 million (2005)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$177.1 million (31 December 2007 est.)
Debt - external:
$1.2 billion (2003)
Market value of publicly traded shares:
$NA
Currency (code):
Burundi franc (BIF)
Currency code:
BIF
Exchange rates:
Burundi francs (BIF) per US dollar - 1,065 (2007), 1,030 (2006), 1,138 (2005), 1,100.91 (2004), 1,082.62 (2003)
Communications
Burundi
Telephones - main lines in use:
35,000 (2006)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
250,000 (2007)
Telephone system:
general assessment: primitive system; telephone density one of the lowest in the world; fixed-line connections stand at well less than 1 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular usage is increasing but remains at a meager 3 per 100 persons domestic: sparse system of open-wire, radiotelephone communications, and low-capacity microwave radio relay international: country code - 257; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Indian Ocean) (2007)
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 0, FM 4, shortwave 1 (2001)
Radios:
440,000 (2001)
Television broadcast stations:
1 (2001)
Televisions:
25,000 (1997)
Internet country code:
.bi
Internet hosts:
162 (2008)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
1 (2000)
Internet users:
60,000 (2006)
Transportation
Burundi
Airports:
8 (2007)
Airports - with paved runways:
total: 1 over 3,047 m: 1 (2007)
Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 7 914 to 1,523 m: 4 under 914 m: 3 (2007)
Heliports:
1 (2007)
Roadways:
total: 12,322 km paved: 1,286 km unpaved: 11,036 km (2004)
Waterways:
mainly on Lake Tanganyika (2005)
Ports and terminals:
Bujumbura
Military
Burundi
Military branches:
National Defense Force (Forces de Defense Nationales, FDN): Army (includes Naval Detachment and Air Wing), Gendarmerie (2008)
Military service age and obligation:
16 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military service; children as young as 10 years of age have been conscripted into the armed forces; the enrollment of children is still not prohibited (2007)
Manpower available for military service:
males age 16–49: 1,878,544 females age 16–49: 1,851,676 (2008 est.)
Manpower fit for military service:
males age 16–49: 1,083,899 females age 16–49: 1,062,488 (2008 est.)
Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:
male: 98,105 female: 98,533 (2008 est.)
Military expenditures:
5.9% of GDP (2006 est.)
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