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ISO 3166
BI
Main language + region
rn-BI
Currency
BIF · Burundian Franc
Region
SSA

Burundi

Burundi has 13.6M people, and 1.2M of them are online. Rundi is the most widely spoken language at 63%, one of 2 languages CLDR lists here. Rundi and French are official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to rn-BI.

RundiFrenchSSA

Market summary

Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.

People online

1.2M

0%world median 81%100%

9% of 13.6M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.

Income per person

$234

Higher than 0% of 213 territories

GDP per capita in current US dollars, World Bank Open Data, most recent reported year. A rough guide to spending power, not revenue.

Can pay online

7%

0%world median 71%100%

Adults aged 15 and over holding a bank or mobile-money account, World Bank Global Findex 2014. Below half means a card-only checkout excludes most of the market.

Languages

2

Rundi 63% · French 59%

Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 2 of them are official nationally.

English proficiency

—

Not in the EF EPI 2025 table. Absent is not the same as low.

Adult literacy

67%

0%world median 95%100%

Share of adults who can read, as recorded in CLDR territory data. Low literacy shifts a product toward icons, audio, and video before another language.

What people speak

Shares include second languages, so totals can exceed 100%.

Most spoken in Burundi

share of 13.6M people

Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%.

CLDR also records diaspora populations, so a language reaches further than any single page shows. The language profiles show each one's full footprint.

Day-one requirements

What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (rn-BI).

Plural categories

2

Word-forms a translator writes for counted text, like English's "1 item" and "2 items".

Script family

Latin

Default system fonts cover this script on all major platforms.

Reading direction

Left-to-right

Standard. Use dir='auto' on user-generated content fields.

Date

21 Ndamukiza 2026

Short: 21/4/2026

Time

18:30

Week starts Mon

Currency

1.235 FBu

1,234.56 in BIF · Burundian Franc