Country comparison Burundi : United States

General information

	Burundi	United States
Region:	Eastern Africa	North America
Area:	27,830 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	Kirundi	English
Government form:	Presidential republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1962 AD	1776 AD
Capital:	Bujumbura	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Burundi	United States
Population:	11,891,000	331,501,000
Inhabitants/km²:	427.3	33.7
Life expectancy males:	Ø 60 years	Ø 75 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 64 years	Ø 80 years
Average age:	Ø 17.7 years	Ø 38.5 years
Birthrate:	37.77 ‰	10.90 ‰
Deathrate:	7.61 ‰	10.30 ‰
Migrationrate:	7.35 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
See also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life

	Burundi	United States
Political stability:	31	63
Civil rights:	11	81
Health:	9	71
Climate:	76	66
Cost of Living:	65	38
Popularity:	54	67

Economy

	Burundi	United States
Currency:	Burundi Franc (1 BIF = 100 Centimes)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	1.8 %	5.5 %
Inflation rate:	8.40 %	4.70 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	33.69 %	100.00 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	41.20 %	36.60 %
Average income:	230 US$	64,140 US$
Corruption index:	19 (very bad)	67 (moderate)

	BDI: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	2,842 M US$	0.24 M US$	20,953,030 M US$	63.21 M US$
Gross national product:	2,783 M US$	0.23 M US$	21,261,523 M US$	64.14 M US$
Exported goods:	285 M US$	0.02 M US$	2,134,445 M US$	6.44 M US$
Imported goods:	905 M US$	0.08 M US$	2,811,124 M US$	8.48 M US$

Infrastructure

	BDI: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	12,322 km	1.04 km	6,586,610 km	19.87 km
Airports:	7	0.001	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	BDI: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	382.70 m kWh	32,184.60 kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.77 m kWh
Energy production:	304.00 m kWh	25,566.02 kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.35 m kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,245.76 kWh
Energy imports:	100.00 m kWh	8,409.88 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	219,365.80 kWh
CO2 emissions:	590,000.00 t	49.62 t	4.98 bn t	15,026.50 t

Telecommunication

	Burundi	United States
International dialing:	+257	+1
Internet domain:	.bi	.us

	BDI total	BDI per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	18,300	2	103,052,000	311
Mobile cellulars:	6,631,154	558	442,457,000	1335
Internet server:	229	0	505,000,000	1523
Internet users:	618,321	52	294,658,590	889
Broadband Internet:	4,230	0	121,176,000	366

Healthcare system

	Burundi	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	0.79	2.87
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.05	2.59
Diabetes:	5.1 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.13 %	0.20 %
Tuberculosis:	1.0 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	94.0 %	75.0 %
Smokers:	11.8 %	23.0 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Burundi and United States

	Burundi	United States
Daytime temperatures:	28.9 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	18.8 °C	7.1 °C
Rel. humidity:	72 %	67 %
Rain days:	7.3	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	6.5	7.2

Native languages

	Burundi	United States
Kirundi:	98.1 %	n/a
English:	0.1 %	82.1 %
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Chinese:	n/a	0.9 %
French:	0.3 %	0.7 %
German:	n/a	0.6 %
Italian:	n/a	0.6 %
Tagalog:	n/a	0.4 %
Korean:	n/a	0.3 %
Polish:	n/a	0.3 %
Swahili:	0.2 %	n/a
Vietnamese:	n/a	0.2 %
Japanese:	n/a	0.2 %
Portuguese:	n/a	0.2 %
Russian:	n/a	0.2 %
Eskimo:	n/a	0.0 %
other:	1.3 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Burundi	United States
Christianity:	86.0 %	78.5 %
Islam:	2.5 %	1.1 %
Jewry:	n/a	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Hinduism:	n/a	1.0 %
Buddhism:	n/a	0.7 %
other:	11.5 %	15.3 %