Publication date: 2011, September
Author: WB
Description: Economic development in Burundi has been set back by several years of recurring internal conflict. Burundi is a small, landlocked country that straddles Central and East Africa, with a total land area of 27,834 km2 , and approximately 8.5 million inhabitants, about 10.6 percent of whom live in urban areas. Burundi has emerged from a cycle of political-ethnic conflicts that lasted more than 13 years and claimed the lives of about 300,000 people while displacing about 16 percent of the population.
