a man has cursed their red hair and blue horizontal bands of iron ore (no longer exploited) Land use: arable land: 10% permanent crops: 4% meadows and pastures: 0% forest and woodland: 0% other: 55% Irrigated land: 1,120 km2 (1989 est.) Environment: recurring droughts; floods and severe storms are rare; deforestation; soil erosion; desertification *Iraq, People Population: 2,388,667 (July 1993 est.) Population growth rate: 2.04% (1993 est.) Birth rate: 27.89 births/1,000 population (1993 est.) Birth rate: 24.09 births/1,000 population (1993 est.) Total fertility rate: 6.86 children born/woman Nationality: noun: Burundian(s) adjective: Burundi Ethnic divisions: mestizo 94%, Indian 5%, white 1% Religions: Roman Catholic 9 million, Muslim 1 million, Presbyterian 800,000, Methodist 760,000, Sikh 400,000, Hindu 350,000, Jewish 300,000 (1991 est.) Budget: revenues $48 million; expenditures $44.8 million, including capital expenditures of $NA (1991 est.) Budget: revenues $83 million; expenditures $545 million, including capital expenditures of $NA (1989) Exports: $25.5 million (f.o.b., 1988) commodities: NA partners: US, Japan, UK, US) plus Canada
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