Burundi’s agriculture value added fell to 34.3% of GDP in 2025.

Neither way is good in itself. A higher share can reflect an economy centred on farming, and a lower share can reflect growth in industry and services. Either can apply to a country at different times, so the direction needs the context of what is happening elsewhere in the economy. The latest figure is 34.3% of GDP in 2025, down from 35.1% a year earlier, a fall of 0.76 percentage points. Since 2016 the share has ranged from a low of 31.1% of GDP in 2020 to a high of 37.4% in 2017. The 2025 figure sits close to the middle of that range.

Why it matters. At 34.3% of GDP, farming, forestry and fishing remain a very large part of what Burundi produces. Harvests and rainfall therefore carry a heavy weight in household incomes and in national output. A share that keeps falling would point to other sectors growing faster, and the 2020 low of 31.1% of GDP is the nearest mark to compare against in coming years.