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Country outlook · Eastern Africa

Burundi

Three scenarios, two horizons. The range is the finding — a single number would imply knowledge nobody has.

Measure	Latest observed	2031	2036
Output per person	$234 2025	$225 – $260	$218 – $284
Electricity access	20% 2024	25% – 32%	29% – 39%
Internet use	9% 2024	12% – 16%	14% – 21%

Growth bands: -0.62% · 0.58% · 1.78% a year per person, from Burundi's own 15-year record (2011–2025) — mean ± 0.85 standard deviations, clamped to its own 5th–95th percentile. Not an outside estimate of what this country might do.

Who this outlook leaves out

A cohort that reaches working age faster than jobs, training places or clinics are built
Rain-fed farming households, first and hardest, in a bad season
A state that must regulate technologies it has too few trained people to assess

2031 versus 2036 · Burundi

Two horizons, asked the same question

By 2031

Household electricity access moves from 20.1% of the population (2024) to between 25% and 32% by 2031, depending on the scenario. Simple continuation gives 28% — a rise of 8.1 percentage points.
In people rather than percentages: about 11.9 million would still be without it in 2031 under continuation — 388,899 more than in 2024, because the population grows as the share improves.
Internet use moves from 8.6% of the population (2024) to between 12% and 16% by 2031, depending on the scenario. Simple continuation gives 14% — a rise of 4.9 percentage points.
In people rather than percentages: about 14.3 million would still be without it in 2031 under continuation — 1.2 million more than in 2024, because the population grows as the share improves.
Output per person spans $225 to $260 by 2031. The $35 between them is under a quarter of today's $234.
That spread is the distance between scenarios, not a margin of error — and it is a national average, which does not identify whose income moved.
The population reaches about 16.6 million — roughly 2.2 million more people than in 2025, about 9.5 million of them of working age.
This figure is the same in all three scenarios. Most of the people who will be alive in 2031 have already been born.

By 2036

Household electricity access moves from 20.1% of the population (2024) to between 29% and 39% by 2036, depending on the scenario. Simple continuation gives 33% — a rise of 13.3 percentage points.
In people rather than percentages: about 12.3 million would still be without it in 2036 under continuation — 812,102 more than in 2024, because the population grows as the share improves.
Internet use moves from 8.6% of the population (2024) to between 14% and 21% by 2036, depending on the scenario. Simple continuation gives 17% — a rise of 8.3 percentage points.
In people rather than percentages: about 15.4 million would still be without it in 2036 under continuation — 2.2 million more than in 2024, because the population grows as the share improves.
Output per person spans $218 to $284 by 2036. The $66 between them is a quarter to a half of today's $234.
That spread is the distance between scenarios, not a margin of error — and it is a national average, which does not identify whose income moved.
The population reaches about 18.5 million — roughly 4.1 million more people than in 2025, about 11 million of them of working age.
This figure is the same in all three scenarios. Most of the people who will be alive in 2036 have already been born.

What has to happen first

For the Acceleration band to describe the decade, growth per person has to hold near 1.8% a year. This country has reached that rate before — its best year in the window was 2.3% — but has not sustained it across the 15-year record the band is drawn from.

What the growth model cannot see · Burundi

Energy availability

Binding constraint — This, not the growth model, is the operative question.

20% of the population had electricity in 2024, falling to 4% in rural areas. Every optimistic scenario for this country runs through this number: no cold chain, no irrigation pump, no evening study, no workshop, no compute.

Why the band cannot contain it

Electricity is a precondition, not an output. A growth average cannot express that a factory, clinic or data centre simply cannot be operated at all.

What would invalidate the modelled band

Either a step change in generation and transmission delivery, or a sustained supply failure. Both break a projection built on gradual access gains.

Assessed in words and deliberately not converted into a probability. This platform does not publish likelihoods it cannot derive from evidence.

AI evidence state · Burundi

5 of 20 dimensions rest on a document or a measurement

3 dimensions have not been examined at all — which is a statement about this platform's research, not about Burundi. There is no readiness score here: ranking countries by a weighted sum of twenty evidence states would manufacture a number nobody measured.

4 Measured A published measurement exists for this country and has been read.

1 Documented A policy, law, contract or programme document exists. No measurement of its effect has been found.

5 Inferred Assessed from adjacent indicators. Nothing AI-specific was found for this country; the reading is circumstantial.

7 Not evident Searched, and nothing was found. Informative — but the absence of a published record is not proof that nothing exists.

3 Unexamined This platform has not looked. This is a statement about the research, not about the country.

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