y in an early stage
of economic development, Burundi is predominately agricultural with only
a few basic industries. Its economic health depends 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: $1.1 billion, per capita $200; real growth rate 1.5% (1989)

_#_Inflation rate (consumer prices): 11.7% (1989)

_#_Unemployment rate: NA%

_#_Budget: revenues $158 million; expenditures $204 million,
including capital expenditures of $131 million (1989 est.)

_#_Exports: $81 million (f.o.b., 1989);

commodities--coffee 88%, tea, hides, and skins;

partners--EC 83%, US 5%, Asia 2%

_#_Imports: $197 million (c.i.f., 1989);

commodities--capital goods 31%, petroleum products 15%, foodstuffs,
consumer goods;

partners--EC 57%, Asia 23%, US 3%

_#_External debt: $957 million (December 1990 est.)

_#_Industrial production: real growth rate 5.1% (1986); accounts
for about 10% of GDP

_#_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

_#_Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $71
million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-88), $10.1 billion; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $32 million;
Communist countries (1970-89), $175 million

_#_Currency: Burundi franc (plural--francs); 1 Burundi franc
(FBu) = 100 centimes

_#_Exchange rates: Burundi francs (FBu) per US$1--163.29 (January
1991), 171.26 (1990), 158.67 (1989), 140.40 (1988), 123.56 (1987), 114.17
(1986), 120.69 (1985)

_#_Fiscal year: calendar year

_*_Communications
_#_Highways: 5,900 km total; 400 km paved, 2,500 km gravel or
laterite, 3,000 km improved or unimproved earth

_#_Inland waterways: Lake Tanganyika

_#_Ports: Bujumbura (lake port) connects to transportation systems of
Tanzania and Zaire

_#_Civil air: 1 major transport aircraft

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