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Geography Hilly and mountainous declining to a plateau in the east. Rank Burundi is located in central Africa bordering DR Congo, Tanzania and Rwanda. Area 27,830 km ² Capital Bujumbura (250,000 inhabitants) Highest point Heha 2,670 m above sea level. Lowest point Tanganyika 950 m above sea level. Climate A total of the equator with large height differences, which means large variations in temperature. Average annual rainfall 150 cm.
	Environment Annual electricity consumption per. head 28.48 kWh (2001) Annual oil comsumtion per 1,000 inhabitants 0.44 barrels Annual CO2 emissions per. head 0.03 metric tons. Its share of global CO2 emissions ~ 0 per cent.
People Populations Hutus 85 percent., Tutsi 14 percent., twa (Pygmies) 1 per cent., 3000 Europeans, sydasiater 2000. Language Kirundi (official), French (official), Swahili (by Lake Tanganyika and in Bujumbura area). Population 6.4 million. population (estimated July 2005) Population 2.22 percent. (estimated 2005) Births 39.66 births per. 1,000 (estimated 2005) Deaths 17.43 deaths per. 1,000 (estimated 2005) Infant mortality 69.29 deaths per. 1000 live births (estimated 2005) Fertility Rate 5.81 births per. woman (estimated 2005) Life expectancy The entire population: 43.5 years. Men: 42.91 years. Women: 44.12 years (estimated 2005)
	Health AIDS patients 6.0 percent. or 250,000 people (estimated 2003) Number of AIDS deaths each. years 25,000 (estimated 2003) Other diseases High-risk country. Eating or drinking water-borne diseases: bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A and typhoid. In addition, there is a high risk of malaria. Access to clean drinking water 78 percent. (2000) Number of physicians per. 100,000 inhabitants 0989 (2004) Number of nurses per. 100,000 inhabitants 28.45 (2004) Education 48.4 percent. illiterates (2003)
Communications and infrastructure Railway lines Unknown. Motor and highways, asphalt ready 1028 km (1999) Uasfalterede roads 13,452 km (1999) per Radios. 1,000 70.61 per TV. 1,000 4.01 phones in use 23,900 (2003) Mobile phones in use 64,000 (2003) Internet users 14,000 (2003)
Religion Christians 67 percent. (Roman Catholic 62 percent., Protestants 5 percent.) Indigenous religions 23 percent. Muslims 10 percent.
Economic Burundi is a resource-poor country with an underdeveloped industrial sector. There is very much a rural economy; over 90 percent. of the population is employed in this sector. Economic growth is dependent on coffee and tea exports, which account for 90 percent. its earnings of foreign currency. The ability to pay for imports depends largely on weather and international coffee and tepriser. The long civil war and the continuing unstable security situation has affected Burundi's economy very negatively. Currency 1 Burundi franc = 0.005952 kroner (July 2005). GDP 24.6 billion. DKK (estimated 2004) GDP. capita 3,700 kroner (estimated 2004) (Denmark: 260,000 DKK) Growth 3.0 percent. (estimated 2004) GDP by sector Agriculture: 48.1 percent., industry: 19.0 percent., service: 32.9 percent. (estimated 2004) Population below poverty line 68 percent. (estimated 2002) Inflation Rate 8.5 percent. (estimated 2004) Workforce 2.99 million. (2002) Workforce by industry Agriculture: 93.6 percent., industry: 2.3 percent., services: 4.1 (estimated 2002) Unemployment Unknown. Industrial Small consumer goods like shoes and soap and madtilberedning. Agricultural Coffee, cotton, tea, maize, sorghum, potato, banana, cassava, meat, milk and hides. Export 196.1 million. DKK (estimated 2004) exports Coffee, tea, sugar, cotton, hides .. largest trading partners (export) Switzerland 25.8 percent., Germany 12.2 percent., Belgium 7.9 percent., United States 5.5 percent., Thailand 5.3 percent., Rwanda 5.2 percent. (2004) Import 851.3 million. DKK (estimated 2004) Import Goods means of production, petroleum, food. largest trading partners (imports) Kenya 11.7 percent., Tanzania 9.6 per cent., United States 9.1 percent., Belgium 9 percent., France 8.8 percent., Italy 5.4 percent., Japan 4.8 percent. , Uganda 4.8 percent., Zambia 4.2 percent. (2004) Foreign 7.0 billion. DKK (estimated 2002) International economic aid per. capita 116 kroner (2003) Costs for military as a percentage of GDP 6 percent. (2004)