_#_Environment: soil exhaustion; soil erosion; deforestation

_#_Note: landlocked; straddles crest of the Nile-Congo watershed

_*People #_Population: 5,831,233 (July 1991), growth rate 3.2% (1991)

_#_Birth rate: 47 births/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Death rate: 15 deaths/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Net migration rate: 0 migrants/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Infant mortality rate: 109 deaths/1,000 live births (1991)

_#_Life expectancy at birth: 50 years male, 54 years female (1991)

_#_Total fertility rate: 6.9 children born/woman (1991)

_#_Nationality: noun—Burundian(s); adjective—Burundi