Because Burundi is landlocked, its exports are costly. They also lose competitiveness due to the tariffs imposed on them from neighboring countries. The most important and largest sector in the economy is agriculture, both for the domestic supply of food and for the provision of
Communications | |||||||||
Country | Newspapers | Radios | TV Sets a | Cable subscribers a | Mobile Phones a | Fax Machines a | Personal Computers a | Internet Hosts b | Internet Users b |
1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1998 | 1998 | 1998 | 1998 | 1999 | 1999 | |
Burundi | 3 | 71 | 4 | N/A | 0 | 0.7 | N/A | 0.00 | 2 |
United States | 215 | 2,146 | 847 | 244.3 | 256 | 78.4 | 458.6 | 1,508.77 | 74,100 |
Dem. Rep. of Congo | 3 | 375 | 135 | N/A | 0 | N/A | N/A | 0.00 | 1 |
Rwanda | 0 | 102 | 0 | N/A | 1 | 0.1 | N/A | 0.00 | 5 |
a Data are from International Telecommunication Union, World Telecommunication Development Report 1999and are per 1,000 people. | |||||||||
b Data are from the Internet Software Consortium ( http://www.isc.org ) and are per 10,000 people. | |||||||||
SOURCE : World Bank. World Development Indicators 2000. |
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