COUNTRY FACTS:

• Total population: 12.1 million
• People currently displaced by conflict: 460,000
• Rank in Human Development Index: 185 of 189
• Second lowest Gross Domestic Product in the world
• Before independence, the country was named Ruanda-Urundi.
• More than 70 percent of the country lives in POVERTY.
• ​ 32 percent of Burundi’s children complete their lower secondary education
• ​Burundi has TWO capitals. The commercial capital is Bujumbura but the political capital is Gitega.
• Burundi is widely known for the traditional drums.
• 36 percent of students complete their first 6 years of school.
• The literacy rate is 35.3 percent
• Majority of of the country speaks two to three languages, Kirundi, Swahili, and/or French.