Burundi
Burundi in numbers
37 measures of Burundi from 1800 to 2025, each charted year by year with where it comes from. Where a source publishes projections, they run on to 2100, drawn apart from the estimates.
Every measure
Health
People
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spending3.24% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$169M in 2025
- Military spending per person$16 in 2025
- Military share of state spending14.9% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel31,000 people in 2020
- National power0.06% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.59% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports2 million TIV in 2019
Climate
Technology and environment
Compare Burundi with…
- Burundi vs Nigeria
- Burundi vs Ethiopia
- Burundi vs Congo - Kinshasa
- Burundi vs Tanzania
- Burundi vs South Africa
- Burundi vs Kenya
- Burundi vs Sudan
- Burundi vs Uganda
- Burundi vs Angola
- Burundi vs Mozambique
- Burundi vs Ghana
- Burundi vs Madagascar
- Burundi vs Côte d’Ivoire
- Burundi vs Cameroon
- Burundi vs Niger
- Burundi vs Mali
- Burundi vs Burkina Faso
- Burundi vs Malawi
- Burundi vs Zambia
- Burundi vs Chad
- Burundi vs Somalia
- Burundi vs Senegal
- Burundi vs Zimbabwe
- Burundi vs Guinea
- Burundi vs Benin
- Burundi vs Rwanda
- Burundi vs South Sudan
Good to know
- Sources: UN, Gapminder and UN IGME, IHME, World Bank, IMF, UNESCO, Our World in Data, V-Dem, UCDP, SIPRI, IISS, Correlates of War, ERA5, CMIP6, EDGAR, ITU and FAO. Each measure’s page names its own and what it counts.
- Values are drawn on today’s borders. Years without a published value are left empty, never filled in.
- 2 measures are climate model output, marked as modelled: not measurements.
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