Agriculture: accounts for 50% of GDP; cash crops - coffee, cotton,
tea; food crops - corn, sorghum, sweet potatoes, bananas, manioc;
livestock - meat, milk, hides and skins
Economic aid:
recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $71 million;
Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-89), $10.2 billion; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $32 million;
Communist countries (1970-89), $175 million
Currency: 1 Burundi franc (FBu) = 100 centimes
Exchange rates: Burundi francs (FBu) per US$1 - 248.51 (December 1994), 252.66 (1994), 242.78 (1993), 208.30 (1992), 181.51 (1991), 171.26 (1990), 158.67 (1989), 140.40 (1988)
Fiscal year: calendar year
@Burundi:Transportation
Railroads: 0 km
Highways:
total: 5,900 km
paved: 640 km
unpaved: gravel, crushed stone 2,260 km; improved, unimproved earth
3,000 km (1990)
Inland waterways: Lake Tanganyika
Ports: Bujumbura