Burundi
61 figures for Burundi, each the latest the source has. Pick one to see how Burundi compares.
Economy
- GDP per person $234 (2025)
- GDP per person, price-adjusted $1,248 (2025)
- Economic growth +4.2% (2025)
- Unemployment 0.9% (2025)
- Inflation +20.2% (2024)
- Income per person $859 (2023)
- Household wealth 22.8 (2019)
- Poorer households 94.0% (2019)
- Wealth inequality 0.35 (2019)
- Women in paid work 78.8% (2019)
People
- Population 13.7 million (2023)
- Population growth +2.41% (2025)
- Births per woman 4.79 (2024)
- Typical age 15.9 (2023)
- Living in cities 25.7% (2025)
- Human Development Index 0.439 (2023)
- Women’s vs men’s development 0.932 (2023)
- People per household 6.0 (2019)
- People over 65 2.9% (2019)
- Children under 15 48.5% (2019)
- Women’s age at first marriage 19.8 (2019)
- Mothers’ age at first birth 20.7 (2019)
Health
- Life expectancy 63.7 (2023)
- Child deaths (under 5) 47.1 (2024)
- Mothers dying in childbirth 392 (2023)
- Health spending per person $28 (2023)
- Measles vaccination 86% (2024)
- Overweight adults 16.3% (2022)
- Stunted children 55.3% (2019)
- Overweight children 1.1% (2019)
- Homes with piped water 6.5% (2019)
- Homes with a flush toilet 2.5% (2019)
Education
- Years of schooling 3.5 (2023)
- Expected years in school 9.8 (2023)
- Secondary school enrollment 44.9% (2020)
- Education spending 4.9% (2021)
- Teens in school 56.5% (2019)
Environment
- CO₂ per person 0.0653 (2024)
- Total CO₂ emissions 916,664 (2024)
- Forest cover 10.9% (2023)
- Air pollution (PM2.5) 40.4 (2024)
- Renewable energy share 83.1% (2021)
- Average temperature 20.9 (2022)
Energy
- Access to electricity 20.1% (2024)
- Renewable electricity 75.5% (2024)
- Nuclear electricity 0.0% (2024)
- Coal electricity 0.0% (2024)
- Cooking with wood or dung 99.7% (2019)
Technology
- Internet users 8.6% (2024)
- Mobile phone subscriptions 56.3 (2022)
- Home broadband 0.0 (2022)
- Homes with a mobile phone 55.1% (2019)
Food and farming
- Cereal yield 1,168 (2023)
- Farmland 83.9% (2023)
- Jobs in farming 85.3% (2025)
Government
- Electoral democracy 0.19 (2025)
- Human rights 0.27 (2025)
- Control of corruption −1.54 (2025)
- Women in parliament 39.6% (2025)
- Military spending 3.8% (2024)
- Clean government 73.0 (2022)