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Burundi

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Burundi is a country. The capital city is Bujumbura, located in the Eastern Africa region of Africa. It has a land area of 25,680 km², a population of 13,689,450 people and uses the currency Burundi franc. The President is Pierre Nkurunziza.

Key facts

currency: Burundi franc
capital city: Bujumbura
region: Eastern Africa
continent: Africa
land area: 25,680 km²
population: 13,689,450 people
political leader: Pierre Nkurunziza (President)

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expense: 15.12 % of GDP
GDP: 2,642,161,668.85 current US$
inflation: 26.94 annual %
self-employed workers: 84.76 % of total employment
tax revenue: 15.64 % of GDP
unemployment: 0.92 % of total labor force
vulnerable employment: 83.55 % of total employment
armed forces personnel: 31,000 people
democracy score: 2.33
democracy type: Authoritarian
internally displaced persons, by conflict and violence: 8,100 people
individuals using the Internet: 11.10 % of population
military expenditure: 3.66 % of GDP
net migration: 1,995 people
press freedom: 1.48
proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments: 38.21 %
birth rate: 34.11 per 1,000 people
death rate: 7.31 per 1,000 people
health expenditure per capita: 24.27 current US$
health expenditure: 9.10 % of GDP
incidence of HIV: 0.10 per 1,000 uninfected population
hospital beds: 0.71 per 1,000 people
life expectancy at birth: 62
suicide mortality rate: 6.20 per 100,000 population
agricultural land: 21,030.00 km²
carbon dioxide emissions (CO2): 0.84 Mt of CO2 equivalent
access to electricity: 10.30 % of population
fertility rate: 4.98 births per woman
forest area: 2,796 km²
greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, SF6): 7.05 Mt of CO2 equivalent
median age: 12.10
methane emissions: 4.87 Mt of CO2 equivalent
nitrous oxide emissions: 1.13 Mt of CO2 equivalent
female population: 6,889,475 people
male population: 6,799,975 people
renewable energy consumption: 83.00 % of total final energy consumption
rural land area: 24,150.63 km²
rural population: 11,665,602 people
urban land area: 887.84 km²
urban population: 2,023,848 people
urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters : 0.00 % of total population

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