Official Languages

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Languages spoken here

Swahili (secondary)

“Secondary” means a community here speaks it alongside another language. It is not a statement of official or minority-language status.

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Burundi

Peoples

Largest first.

People	Population	Language	Religion
Hutu, Rundi	12387000	Rundi	Christianity
Tutsi	2045000	Rundi	Christianity
Deaf	59000	Burundian Sign Language	Unknown
Pygmy, Twa	41000	Kinyarwanda	Ethnic Religions
Swahili	16000	Swahili	Islam
English-speaking, general	600	English	Christianity

Languages

5 languages recorded here.

Burundian Sign Language

English

Kinyarwanda

Rundi

Swahili

All catalogue fields

155 fields recorded

rog3: BY
iso3: BDI
iso2: BI
ctry: Burundi
poplpeoples: 14549000
cntpeoples: 6
cntpeopleslr: 1
poplpeopleslr: 16000
jpscalectry: 5
rol3officiallanguage: run
officiallang: Rundi
rlg3primary: 1
religionprimary: Christianity
percentchristianity: 93.132986872634
percentevangelical: 30.493584657784
c_10_40window: N
rog2: AFR
continent: Africa
regioncode: 7
regionname: Africa, East and Southern
workersneeded: 1
harvest_rog3: BY
harvest_iso3: BDI
harvest_iso2: BI
harvest_owcountrycode: BURU
harvest_ethnologuecountrycode: BI
harvest_countrynumber: 34
harvest_ctry: Burundi
harvest_ctryshort: Burundi
harvest_countrynamechinese: 布隆迪
harvest_countrynamechineseshort: 布隆迪
harvest_countrynamedutch: Burundi
harvest_countrynamefrench: Burundi
harvest_countrynamefrenchshort: Burundi
harvest_countrynamegerman: Burundi
harvest_countrynamegermanshort: Burundi
harvest_countrynameindonesian: Burundi
harvest_countrynameindonesianshort: Burundi
harvest_countrynameitalian: Burundi
harvest_countrynameitalianshort: Burundi
harvest_countrynamekorean: 부룬디
harvest_countrynamekoreanshort: 부룬디
harvest_countrynamenorwegian: Burundi
harvest_countrynamenorwegianshort: Burundi
harvest_countrynameportuguese: Burundi
harvest_countrynameportugueseshort: Burundi
harvest_countrynamerussian: Бурунди
harvest_countrynamerussianshort: Бурунди
harvest_countrynamespanish: Burundi
harvest_countrynamespanishshort: Burundi
harvest_countrynamevietnamese: Burundi
harvest_countrynamevietnameseshort: Burundi
harvest_chineseconcatenationprefix: 在
harvest_frenchconcatenationprefix: de
harvest_germanconcatenationprefix: in
harvest_indonesianconcatenationprefix: di
harvest_italianconcatenationprefix: -
harvest_koreanconcatenationprefix: 의
harvest_norwegianconcatenationprefix: i
harvest_portugueseconcatenationprefix: em
harvest_russianconcatenationprefix: B
harvest_spanishconcatenationprefix: en
harvest_vietnameseconcatenationprefix: ở
harvest_ethnologuemapexists: N
harvest_rog2: AFR
harvest_regioncode2414: 2
harvest_regioncode: 7
harvest_unsr: 014
harvest_worldabc: C
harvest_maniregioncode: EA
harvest_capital: Bujumbura
harvest_population: 14390000
harvest_populationsource: UN Country Population (2025)
harvest_prayercastvideo: https://prayercast.com/burundi.html
harvest_prayercastvimeourl: 35641985
harvest_waldnerguide: prayer-guide-ug+rw+by.pdf
harvest_unmap: https://un.org/geospatial/content/burundi-2
harvest_jpscale: 5
harvest_c_10_40window: N
harvest_c_10_40windoworiginal: N
harvest_biblerestrictionsrank: 76
harvest_bibleshortagerank: 15
harvest_bibleaccessurl: https://www.bibleaccesslist.org/profiles/BI_2025_profile.pdf
harvest_owpctevang: 27
harvest_owpctcharismatic: 17.409838
harvest_owevangelicalgrowthrate: 3.8
harvest_owcountrypage: burundi
harvest_literacyrate: 68
harvest_literacysource: Ethnologue
harvest_percenturbanized: 13
harvest_rol3officiallanguage: run
harvest_rol3secondarylanguage: fra
harvest_rlg3primary: 1
harvest_rlg4primary: 6
harvest_pctanimist: 3.8
harvest_pctbahai: 0.08
harvest_pctbuddhism: 0
harvest_pctchinese: 0
harvest_pcthindu: 0
harvest_pctislam: 5.5
harvest_pctsikh: 0
harvest_pctjudaism: 0
harvest_pctnonreligious: 0.09
harvest_pctother: 0.07000000000000001
harvest_pctchristian: 90.45999999999999
harvest_pctchristianprotestant: 10.13
harvest_pctchristianindependent: 10.74
harvest_pctchristiananglican: 8.49
harvest_pctchristianromancatholic: 60.91999999999999
harvest_pctchristianorthodoxcatholic: 0.02
harvest_pctchristianmarginal: 0.19
harvest_pctchristianunaffiliated: 1.32
harvest_pctchristiandoublyprofessing: -1.350000035215971
harvest_pctchristianother: 0
harvest_pctchristianextra: 0
harvest_rop1: A013
harvest_hdiyear: 2015
harvest_hdivalue: 0.404
harvest_hdirank: 184
harvest_internetusers: 5.2
harvest_flashmapzoom: 661
harvest_flashmapzoomx: -307
harvest_flashmapzoomy: -333
harvest_googlemapzoom: 6
harvest_googlemaplat: -3.5
harvest_googlemaplng: 30
harvest_ctrylatitude: -3.373056
harvest_ctrylongitude: 29.918886
harvest_securitylevel: 0
harvest_statedeptreligiousfreedom: https://www.state.gov/reports/2023-report-on-international-religious-freedom/burundi/
harvest_provincesdisplayable: Y
harvest_adm1label: Provinces
harvest_wcdsubregioncode: 101
harvest_poplgrowthrate: 3.315156236475374
harvest_godreportsurl: http://blog.godreports.com/country/?countrycode=bi&joshua=by
harvest_datareportalurl: https://datareportal.com/reports/digital-2024-burundi
harvest_internetusage: 3
harvest_internetusagesourceyear: 2017
harvest_biblesocietyurl: http://biblesociety-burundi.org/
harvest_areasquaremiles: 10745
harvest_areasquarekilometers: 27834
harvest_populationpersquaremile: 595
harvest_countryphonecode: 257
harvest_owpctchristian1986: 86.59999999999999
harvest_owpctevangelical1986: 9.5
harvest_owpctchristian1993: 74.7
harvest_owpctevangelical1993: 14
harvest_owpctchristian2001: 90.05999999999999
harvest_owpctevangelical2001: 20
harvest_religiondatayear: 2010
harvest_internetctrycode: .bi
harvest_worldfactbookurl: https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/burundi
harvest_source: pjj
harvest_editname: BM
harvest_editdate: 09/12/02 00:00:00