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Burundi, officially the Republic of Burundi, is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is located in the Great Rift Valley at the junction between the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa, with a population of over 14 million people. It is bordered by Rwanda to the north, Tanzania to the east and southeast, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west; Lake Tanganyika lies along its southwestern border. The political capital city is Gitega and the economic capital city is Bujumbura. The Twa, Hutu and Tutsi peoples have lived in Burundi for at least 500 years. For more than 200 of those years, Burundi was an independent kingdom. In 1885, it became part of the German colony of German East Africa. After the First World War and Germany's defeat, the League of Nations mandated the territories of Burundi and neighboring Rwanda to Belgium in a combined territory called Rwanda-Urundi. After the Second World War, this transformed into a United Nations Trust Territory. Burundi gained independence in 1962 and initially retained the monarchy. However, a coup d'état in 1966 replaced the monarchy with a one-party republic, and for the next 27 years, Burundi was ruled by a series of ethnic Tutsi dicta... [More]
  • Last : 110,884.64-
  • High : 111,764.99-
  • Low : 110,404.72-
  • Max Fluctuation : 806.88-
  • Max Fluctuation % : 0.73%-
  • Open : 111,145.04-
  • Time : 15:19:17-
  • Yesterday : 111,168.53-
  • Change % : 0.26%-
  • Change : 283.89-
  • Last : 3,336.74-
  • High : 3,347.59-
  • Low : 3,290.59-
  • Max Fluctuation : 16.77-
  • Max Fluctuation % : 0.2%-
  • Open : 3,294.43-
  • Time : 15:24:53-
  • Yesterday : 3,294.04-
  • Change % : 1.3%-
  • Change : 42.7-
  • Last : 60.8-
  • High : 61.4-
  • Low : 60.55-
  • Max Fluctuation : 0.68-
  • Max Fluctuation % : 0.41%-
  • Open : 60.81-
  • Time : 15:24:44-
  • Yesterday : 60.84-
  • Change % : 0.07%-
  • Change : 0.04-
  • Last : 0.8794-
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  • Open : 0.8866-
  • Time : 15:23:59-
  • Yesterday : 0.8864-
  • Change % : 0.8%-
  • Change : 0.007-

Burundi Currency Markets

Indicator Value Previous Low High Change Change % Time Chart
GBP/BIF Ask 4071.15 4069.65 4044.02 4071.15 22.31 0.55% 2025/05/23 Time 15:23
EUR/BIF Ask 3405.8 - 3405.8 3405.8 17.40 0.51% 2025/05/23 Time 15:18
USD/BIF Ask 3015 - 2960 3015 0.00 0.00% 2025/05/22 Time 20:48
BIF/USD Ask 0.0005 - 0.0005 0.0005 0.00 0.00% 2022/04/30 Time 14:32

Economic Indicators + Forecasts

  • Actual

  • Forecast

Indicator Last Time Previous Metric
Balance of Trade
-241120 25 Jan -218678 BIF Million
Banks Balance Sheet
8919684 25 Feb 8810834 BIF Million
CPI Housing Utilities
309 25 Mar 306 points
CPI Transportation
230 25 Mar 231 points
Central Bank Balance Sheet
4147903 25 Feb 4365636 BIF Million
Consumer Price Index CPI
303 25 Mar 296 points
Corruption Index
17 24 Dec 20 Points
Corruption Rank
165 24 Dec 162
Currency
2976 25 May 2976
Current Account
-1407 23 Dec -622 USD Million
Current Account to GDP
-8.2 23 Dec -13.4 percent of GDP
Electricity Production
33.68 25 Feb 37.47 Gigawatt-hour
Export Prices
193 22 Dec 166 points
Exports
30731 25 Jan 49476 BIF Million
External Debt
1873263 24 Dec 1880612 BIF Million
Fiscal Expenditure
202624 25 Feb 339215 BIF Million
Food Inflation
40.1 25 Mar 38.7 percent
Foreign Exchange Reserves
410725 25 Feb 454803 BIF Million
GDP
2.64 23 Dec 3.34 USD Billion
GDP Annual Growth Rate
2.8 23 Dec 1.8 percent
GDP per Capita
254 23 Dec 254 USD
GDP per Capita PPP
829 23 Dec 829 USD
Gold Reserves
0.03 24 Jun 0.03 Tonnes
Government Budget
-9.2 23 Dec -8.5 percent of GDP
Government Budget Value
-5261 25 Feb -116452 BIF Million
Government Debt to GDP
13.1 24 Dec 15.9 percent of GDP
Government Revenues
197363 25 Feb 222763 BIF Million
Import Prices
143 22 Dec 141 points
Imports
271851 25 Jan 268153 BIF Million
Industrial Production
-7.1 25 Jan -10.8 percent
Inflation Rate
41 25 Mar 39.7 percent
Inflation Rate MoM
2.2 25 Mar 2.8 percent
Interest Rate
12 25 Apr 12 percent
Loans to Private Sector
5704 25 Feb 5646 BIF Billion
Military Expenditure
172 24 Dec 145 USD Million
Money Supply M0
2125399 25 Feb 2146978 BIF Million
Money Supply M1
4407872 25 Feb 4404845 BIF Million
Money Supply M2
6043552 25 Feb 6033087 BIF Million
Money Supply M3
6655737 25 Feb 6616371 BIF Million
Population
13.24 23 Dec 12.89 Million
Terms of Trade
135 22 Dec 118 points
Terrorism Index
4.04 24 Dec 2.43 Points
Unemployment Rate
0.9 24 Dec 0.9 percent
Indicator Actual Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Metric
Consumer Price Index CPI 303 316.09 340.17 373.86 379.26 points
Current Account to GDP -8.2 -6 -8 -8 percent of GDP
Food Inflation 40.1 14 10 13 15 percent
GDP 2.64 2.72 2.79 2.87 USD Billion USD Billion
GDP Annual Growth Rate 2.8 3 percent
GDP per Capita 254 261.14 267.66 275.43 USD USD
GDP per Capita PPP 829 853.73 875.07 900.45 USD USD
Government Budget -9.2 -7.5 -6 -5 percent of GDP
Government Debt to GDP 13.1 15 13 14 percent of GDP
Inflation Rate 41 42 38 33 28 percent
Interest Rate 12 12 14 12 12 percent
Population 13.24 13.9 14.1 14.5 Million Million
Unemployment Rate 0.9 1.2 percent