Facts and Figures

Full name: Burundi

Nationality      
        noun: Burundian(s)
        adjective: Burundian

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Area  
        total: 27,830 sq km
        water: 2,180 sq km
        land: 25,650 sq km

Population: 6,370,609
Note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2005 est.)

Ethnic groups
        Hutu (Bantu) 85%
        Tutsi (Hamitic) 14%
        Twa (Pygmy) 1%
        Europeans 3,000
        South Asians 2,000

Capital:Bujumbura 

Largest Cities: Bujumbura 
 
Official Language
        Kirundi (official)
        French (official)
        Swahili (along Lake Tanganyika and in the Bujumbura area)

Religion
        Christian 67% (Roman Catholic 62%, Protestant 5%)
        indigenous beliefs 23%
        Muslim 10%

Political system: Republic

GDP: purchasing power parity - $4.001 billion (2004 est.)  
  
GDP per head:  purchasing power parity - $600 (2004 est.)

Annual growth: 3% (2004 est.)

GDP - composition by sector
        agriculture 48.1%
        industry: 19%
        services: 32.9% (2004 est.) 
 
Inflation: 8.5% (2004 est.) 

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