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Key facts

  • Currency: Rwandan franc
  • Capital city: Kigali
  • Region: Eastern Africa
  • Continent: Africa
  • Land area: 24,670 km²
  • Population: 13,776,698
  • Political Leader: Paul Kagame (President)

Latest news

Voices: Should the Rwanda scheme be ditched in favour of alternative migrant plans? Join The Independent Debate

Read: Independent

2024-03-26

Three decades after Rwanda's genocide, the past is ever-present

Read: The Economist

2024-03-25

Transferring asylum seekers to Rwanda: Inside Sunak's stubborn obsession

Read: Le Monde

2024-03-25

Jeremy Hunt defends cost of Rwanda boat plan as ministers launch new deterrance campaign

Read: Express

2024-03-25

Rwanda trips by UK ministers and officials have already cost over PS400,000

Read: The Guardian

2024-03-22

James Cleverly spent PS165k on private jet to sign Rishi Sunak's Rwanda deal

Read: Independent

2024-03-22

James Cleverly spent PS165k on private jet to Rwanda to sign deal

Read: The National

2024-03-22

Metrics

Business

Central government debt 48.43 % of GDP
Expense 21.53 % of GDP
GDP 13,311,500,000.00 current US$
Inflation 17.69 annual %
Self-employed 64.00 % of total employment
Tax revenue 15.08 % of GDP
Unemployment 15.08 % of total labor force
Vulnerable employment 63.95 % of total employment


Environment

Agricultural land 20,044.60 km²
Carbon Dioxide Emissions (CO2) 1,382.00 kt
Fertility rate 3.82 births per woman
Forest area 2,770 km²
Other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6 -173.09 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent
Median age 15.20 years
Methane emissions 2,680.92 kt of CO2 equivalent
Nitrous oxide emissions 2,006.21 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent
Female Population 7,035,658
Male Population 6,741,039
Renewable energy consumption 81.39 % of total final energy consumption
Rural land area 22,337.30 km²
Rural population 11,335,329
Urban land area 1,506.23 km²
Urban population 2,441,369
Urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters 0.00 % of total population


Health

Birth rate 29.98 per 1,000 people
Death rate 6.28 per 1,000 people
Health expenditure per capita 57.50 current US$
Health expenditure 7.32 % of GDP
Incidence of HIV 0.34 per 1,000 uninfected population
Hospital beds 1.60 per 1,000 people
Life expectancy at birth 66 years
Suicide mortality rate 5.60 per 100,000 population


Other

Access to electricity 48.70 % of population
Individuals using the Internet 30.46 % of population
Net migration -8,999
Press freedom 1.49


Politics

Armed forces personnel 35,000
Democracy score 3.35
Democracy type Authoritarian
Military expenditure 1.45 % of GDP
Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments 61.25 %


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Datasets

Source

SIPRI, World Bank

Updated: 2 days ago

License

CC BY 4.0

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