Because Burundi is a relatively small country with a large population, poor resources, no access to the sea, is a landlocked country, thus limiting the economic development of Burundi, and Burundi is a country that is mainly based on the development of agriculture and animal husbandry, which leads to the slow development of the country's economy. And Burundi's economic development has a lot of problems, because the country's economy is limited, so that Burundi's development plan can be successfully realized this problem, to a large extent, depends on external support, at the same time, because of Burundi's lack of high-quality personnel and equipment, resulting in administrative inefficiency.
Combined with the lack of market transparency, few export commodities, poor infrastructure, poor social services and small market size, Burundi's economy is difficult to develop, and ultimately lead to serious unemployment. Burundi's industrial base is relatively weak, ranking third in the national economy, and in the first place of agriculture and animal husbandry, in Burundi this country, more than 90% of the population engaged in this industry, and Burundi's pasture area accounts for 30% of the whole country.
The government of Burundi signed the third phase of structural adjustment program with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 1991, aiming to give priority to the development of agriculture, and to support the diversified business, the development of agro-processing, the improvement of transportation, the expansion of foreign trade, and the reorganization of the national enterprises, and to carry out a comprehensive reform of these. But whether it can finally be implemented or not depends on the development of the country of Burundi, as well as external support and other multiple issues.
Burundi's domestic transportation mostly relies on air transport, and the import and export of commodities need to go through the Tanzanian port of Dar es Salaam or the Kenyan port of Mombasa, and there is no railroad in the country, which makes the transportation very inconvenient. And Burundi and more than 50 countries have trade exchanges, medical facilities are relatively backward, in Burundi, every ten thousand people have 19 beds.