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Rwanda

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Rwanda is a country. The capital city is Kigali, located in the Eastern Africa region of Africa. It has a land area of 24,670 km², a population of 13,954,471 people and uses the currency Rwandan franc. The President is Paul Kagame.

Key facts

currency: Rwandan franc
capital city: Kigali
region: Eastern Africa
continent: Africa
land area: 24,670 km²
population: 13,954,471 people
political leader: Paul Kagame (President)

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central government debt: 48.43 % of GDP
expense: 21.53 % of GDP
GDP: 14,097,768,472.19 current US$
inflation: 19.79 annual %
self-employed workers: 41.25 % of total employment
tax revenue: 15.07 % of GDP
unemployment: 12.35 % of total labor force
vulnerable employment: 40.17 % of total employment
armed forces personnel: 35,000 people
democracy score: 3.35
democracy type: Authoritarian
individuals using the Internet: 34.20 % of population
military expenditure: 1.27 % of GDP
net migration: -9,001 people
press freedom: 1.49
proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments: 61.25 %
birth rate: 29.47 per 1,000 people
death rate: 5.85 per 1,000 people
health expenditure per capita: 60.22 current US$
health expenditure: 7.32 % of GDP
incidence of HIV: 0.24 per 1,000 uninfected population
hospital beds: 0.74 per 1,000 people
life expectancy at birth: 67
suicide mortality rate: 5.60 per 100,000 population
agricultural land: 20,044.60 km²
carbon dioxide emissions (CO2): 1.65 Mt of CO2 equivalent
access to electricity: 50.60 % of population
fertility rate: 3.75 births per woman
forest area: 2,780 km²
greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, SF6): 7.49 Mt of CO2 equivalent
median age: 15.50
methane emissions: 4.68 Mt of CO2 equivalent
nitrous oxide emissions: 1.21 Mt of CO2 equivalent
female population: 7,152,063 people
male population: 6,802,408 people
renewable energy consumption: 79.90 % of total final energy consumption
rural land area: 22,337.27 km²
rural population: 11,457,737 people
urban land area: 1,506.23 km²
urban population: 2,496,734 people
urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters : 0.00 % of total population

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