Nationality:
noun: Burundian(s)
adjective: Burundian

Ethnic groups:
Hutu (Bantu) 85%, Tutsi (Hamitic) 14%, Twa (Pygmy) 1%, Europeans 3,000, South Asians 2,000

Languages:
Kirundi 29.7% (official), Kirundi and other language 9.1%, French (official) and French and other language 0.3%, Swahili and Swahili and other language 0.2% (along Lake Tanganyika and in the Bujumbura area), English and English and other language 0.06%, more than 2 languages 3.7%, unspecified 56.9% (2008 est.)

Religions:
Catholic 62.1%, Protestant 23.9% (includes Adventist 2.3% and other Protestant 21.6%), Muslim 2.5%, other 3.6%, unspecified 7.9% (2008 est.)

Population:
10,395,931
country comparison to the world: 86
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality, higher death rates, lower population growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2014 est.)
[see also: Population country ranks ]

Age structure:
0-14 years: 45.7% (male 2,385,571/female 2,361,367)
15-24 years: 19.3% (male 1,001,486/female 1,005,617)
25-54 years: 28.6% (male 1,483,936/female 1,491,401)
55-64 years: 3.9% (male 190,707/female 216,983)
65 years and over: 2.5% (male 109,434/female 149,429) (2014 est.)
population pyramid:

Dependency ratios:
total dependency ratio: 89.2 %
youth dependency ratio: 84.7 %
elderly dependency ratio: 4.5 %
potential support ratio: 22.2 (2014 est.)

Median age:
total: 17 years
male: 16.7 years
female: 17.2 years (2014 est.)

Population growth rate:
3.28% (2014 est.)
country comparison to the world: 8
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Birth rate:
42.33 births/1,000 population (2014 est.)
country comparison to the world: 6
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Death rate:
9.54 deaths/1,000 population (2014 est.)
country comparison to the world: 55
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Net migration rate:
0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2014 est.)
country comparison to the world: 102
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Urbanization:
urban population: 10.9% of total population (2011)
rate of urbanization: 4.12% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.)

Major urban areas - population:
BUJUMBURA (capital) 605,000 (2011)

Sex ratio:
at birth: 1.03 male(s)/female
0-14 years: 1.01 male(s)/female
15-24 years: 1 male(s)/female
25-54 years: 1 male(s)/female
55-64 years: 0.99 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.67 male(s)/female
total population: 0.98 male(s)/female (2014 est.)

Mother's mean age at first birth:
21.3
note: median age at first birth among women 25-29 (2010 est.)
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Maternal mortality rate:
800 deaths/100,000 live births (2010)
country comparison to the world: 6
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Infant mortality rate:
total: 63.44 deaths/1,000 live births
country comparison to the world: 20
male: 70.22 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 56.46 deaths/1,000 live births (2014 est.)

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 59.55 years
country comparison to the world: 196
male: 57.94 years
female: 61.22 years (2014 est.)

Total fertility rate:
6.14 children born/woman (2014 est.)
country comparison to the world: 3
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Contraceptive prevalence rate:
21.9% (2010/11)
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Health expenditures:
8.7% of GDP (2011)
country comparison to the world: 50
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Physicians density:
0.03 physicians/1,000 population (2004)
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Hospital bed density:
1.9 beds/1,000 population (2011)
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Drinking water source:
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