Transport and infrastructure in Burundi

Our listing of the primary types of transport compares the infrastructure of Burundi with the average of all countries in Africa. In many places, the traffic routes show considerable deficiencies and are often not in a particularly good condition.

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Road traffic

The network of roads and highways has a total length of 12,322 km. For each of the country's 12.55 million inhabitants, this corresponds to 0.98 meters. This puts Burundi in 204th place in the global ranking. However, the country's population density must also be taken into account, which is relatively high at around 451 inhabitants per km². The higher the population density of a country, the shorter the average distance traveled.

With an average of 3856 traffic fatalities per year (2013 - 2019), road traffic in Burundi is considered very dangerous. This corresponds to 34.6 accident fatalities per 100,000 inhabitants per year. By comparison, this figure is 12.3 in the USA and 17.0 worldwide.

In Burundi, traffic drives on the right-hand side of the road, i.e. people drive in the right-hand lane and overtake on the left. Oncoming traffic comes toward you on the left side. Here you can also find an overview of all countries with left-hand traffic.

	total	per 1 mio inhabitants	per km²
	Burundi
Roadways	12,300 km	981.74 km	442.76 m
Railroads	0 km	0.00 km	0.00 m
Waterways	673 km	53.62 km	24.18 m
Commercial harbors	0	0.00	0.000
Airports	2	0.16	0.072

	total	per 1 mio inhabitants	per km²
	Africa
Roadways	2,997,800 km	2,151.40 km	98.86 m
Railroads	88,600 km	63.57 km	2.92 m
Waterways	68,400 km	49.09 km	2.26 m
Commercial harbors	7,905	5.67	0.000
Airports	413	0.30	0.000

Data sources used

• Global Health Observatory Data Repository (World Health Organization)
• UNCTAD
• Internation Union of Railways (UIC)
• CIA Factbook
• OECD Statistics
• Wikipedia (german)

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