The heading BUSINESS maintains two catalogues - a catalogue of employment and a catalogue of the most active companies.
• GDP (purchasing power parity): $3.103 billion (2008); $2.969 billion (2007); $2.866 billion (2006)
• GDP (official exchange rate): $903 million (2008)
• GDP - real growth rate: 4.5% (2008); 3.6% (2007); 5.1% (2006)
• GDP - per capita: $400 (2008); $400 (2007); $400 (2006)
• GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 32.9% ; industry: 21.3%; services: 45.8% (2008)
• Investment: 28.4% of GDP (2008)
• Budget: revenues: $292.2 million; expenditures: $351.3 million; including capital expenditures of $NA (2008)
• Inflation rate (consumer prices): 12% (2008)
• Agriculture - products: coffee, cotton, tea, corn, sorghum, sweet potatoes, bananas, manioc (tapioca); beef, milk, hides
• Industries: light consumer goods such as blankets, shoes, soap; assembly of imported components; public works construction; food processing
• Industrial production growth rate: 8% (2008)
• Electricity - production: 87 million kWh (2006)
• Electricity - consumption: 120.9 million kWh (2006)
• Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (2007)
• Electricity - imports: 40 million kWh; note - supplied by the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2007)
• Oil - production: 0 bbl/day (2007)
• Oil - consumption: 2,956 bbl/day (2006)
• Oil - exports: 0 bbl/day (2005)
• Oil - imports: 2,635 bbl/day (2005)
• Natural gas - production: 0 cu m (2007)
• Natural gas - consumption: 0 cu m (2007)
• Natural gas - exports: 0 cu m (2007)
• Natural gas - imports: 0 cu m (2007)
• Current account balance: -$120 million (2008)
• Exports: $47 million (2008)
• Exports - commodities: coffee, tea, sugar, cotton, hides
• Exports - partners: Germany 31.3%, Pakistan 6.8%, Belgium 5.8%, Sweden 4.3%, Rwanda 4.3%, France 4.2%, Sudan 4% (2007)
• Imports: $307 million (2008)
• Imports - commodities: capital goods, petroleum products, foodstuffs
• Imports - partners: Saudi Arabia 17%, Kenya 11.4%, Belgium 8.7%, France 6.1%, Uganda 5.4%, Germany 5.4%, India 4.8%, Pakistan 4.2% (2007)
• Reserves of foreign exchange and gold: $134 million (31 December 2008)
• Debt - external: $1.2 billion (2003)
• Exchange rates: Burundi francs (BIF) per US dollar - 1,198 (2008), 1,065 (2007), 1,030 (2006), 1,138 (2005), 1,100.91 (2004)
Burundi - business -- Companies
One of the import export companies is called Maimo Import Export. A leading company in the aviation industry is Air Burundi. The African Transport Services is a leading company in the transportation sector. The Burundi Tobacco Company is dealing with tobacco. The IT sector is presented by CBINF.COM which has a market share of approximately 65.69 %. Apart from this there are other companies dealing with computer technology including Computer and Electronic Center SARL and Computer Applications Burundi. There are a number of companies dealing with shipping of cargo and freight, logistics, maritime shipping and air shipping.
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