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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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