$138.2 million f.o.b. (2004 est.)
Imports - commodities:
capital goods, petroleum products, foodstuffs
Imports - partners:
Kenya 13.7%, Tanzania 11.2%, US 8.9%, Belgium 8.5%, France 8.4%,
Italy 6%, Uganda 5.6%, Japan 4.6%, Germany 4.5% (2004)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$76.89 million (2004 est.)
Debt - external:
$1.133 billion (2002)
Economic aid - recipient:
$92.7 million (2000)
Currency (code):
Burundi franc (BIF)
Currency code:
BIF
Exchange rates:
Burundi francs per US dollar - 1,100.91 (2004), 1,082.62 (2003),
930.75 (2002), 830.35 (2001), 720.67 (2000)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Communications Burundi
Telephones - main lines in use:
23,900 (2003)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
64,000 (2003)
Telephone system:
general assessment: primitive system
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)
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:
22 (2003)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
1 (2000)
Internet users:
14,000 (2003)
Transportation Burundi
Highways: total: 14,480 km paved: 1,028 km unpaved: 13,452 km (1999 est.)
Waterways:
mainly on Lake Tanganyika (2004)
Ports and harbors:
Bujumbura
Airports:
8 (2004 est.)
Airports - with paved runways:
total: 1
over 3,047 m: 1 (2004 est.)
Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 7
914 to 1,523 m: 4
under 914 m: 3 (2004 est.)
Military Burundi
Military branches:
National Defense Force (Forces de Defense Nationales, FDN): Army
(includes Naval Detachment and Air Wing), National Gendarmerie (2005)
Military service age and obligation:
16 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military service (2001)
Manpower available for military service:
males age 16–49: 1,379,793 (2005 est.)
Manpower fit for military service:
males age 16–49: 693,956 (2005 est.)
Manpower reaching military service age annually:
males: 84,597 (2005 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$38.7 million (2004)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
6% (2004)
Transnational Issues Burundi
Disputes - international:
Tutsi, Hutu, other conflicting ethnic groups, associated political
rebels, armed gangs, and various government forces continue fighting
in the Great Lakes region, transcending the boundaries of Burundi,
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda in an effort to
gain control over populated and natural resource areas; government
heads pledge to end conflict, but localized violence continues
despite the presence of about 6,000 peacekeepers from the UN
Operation in Burundi (ONUB) since 2004; although some 150,000
Burundian refugees have been repatriated, as of February 2005,
Burundian refugees still reside in camps in western Tanzania as well
as the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Refugees and internally displaced persons:
refugees (country of origin): 60,288 (Democratic Republic of the
Congo)
IDPs: 140,000 (armed conflict between government and rebels; most
IDPs in northern and western Burundi) (2004)
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