Burundi and Honduras Comparison - Examine Similarities and Differences

Country
	Honduras
Leader
President: Pierre Nkurunziza	President: Porfirio Lobo Sosa
Population
10,557,259	8,296,693
Life Expectancy
59.240 years	70.710 years
Capital City
	Tegucigalpa
Largest city
Bujumbura (population: 331,700)	Tegucigalpa (population: 850,848)
Human Development Index
0.382	0.714
GDP per capita
	$4,400 US
Literacy Rate
59.3%	80%
Corruption Perception Index
1.9	2.6
Percentage of Women in Parliament
31.7%	23.4%
Wealthiest Citizens

Unemployment Rate
	4.800%
Death Penalty
Abolished	Abolished

Political System
republic	democratic constitutional republic
Independence date
	15 September 1821 (from Spain)
Religions
Christian 67% (Roman Catholic 62%, Protestant 5%), indigenous beliefs 23%, Muslim 10%	Roman Catholic 97%, Protestant 3%
Languages
Kirundi (official), French (official), Swahili (along Lake Tanganyika and in the Bujumbura area)	Spanish, Amerindian dialects
Exports
	coffee, shrimp, bananas, gold, palm oil, fruit, lobster, lumber
External Debt
	$4,564,000,000 US
Exchange Rate
	lempiras (HNL) per US dollar - 18.983 (2008 est.), 18.9 (2007), 18.895 (2006), 18.92 (2005), 18.206 (2004)
Military Budget as percentage of GDP
	0.600%
Beijing Olympics Medal Count

Location
Central Africa, east of Democratic Republic of the Congo	Central America, bordering the Caribbean Sea, between Guatemala and Nicaragua and bordering the Gulf of Fonseca (North Pacific Ocean), between El Salvador and Nicaragua
Area
27,830 km sq	112,090 km sq
Coastline
0 km	820 km
Climate
equatorial; high plateau with considerable altitude variation (772 m to 2,670 m above sea level); average annual temperature varies with altitude from 23 to 17 degrees centigrade but is generally moderate as the average altitude is about 1,700 m; average annual rainfall is about 150 cm; two wet seasons (February to May and September to November), and two dry seasons (June to August and December to January)	subtropical in lowlands, temperate in mountains

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Burundi vs Honduras