Rwanda 
Facts
Population:
7,312,756
note:
estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2001 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years:
42.4% (male 1,555,878; female 1,544,942)
15-64 years:
54.73% (male 1,989,501; female 2,013,012)
65 years and over:
2.87% (male 83,769; female 125,654) (2001 est.)
Population growth rate:
1.16% (2001 est.)
Birth rate:
33.97 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Death rate:
21.13 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Net migration rate:
-1.21 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth:
1.03 male(s)/female
under 15 years:
1.01 male(s)/female
15-64 years:
0.99 male(s)/female
65 years and over:
0.67 male(s)/female
total population:
0.99 male(s)/female (2001 est.)
Infant mortality rate:
118.92 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population:
38.99 years
male:
38.35 years
female:
39.65 years (2001 est.)
Total fertility rate:
4.89 children born/woman (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
11.21% (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
400,000 (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
40,000 (1999 est.)
Nationality:
noun:
Rwandan(s)
adjective:
Rwandan
Ethnic groups:
Hutu 84%, Tutsi 15%, Twa (Pygmoid) 1%
Religions:
Roman Catholic 52.7%, Protestant 24%, Adventist 10.4%, Muslim 1.9%, indigenous beliefs and other 6.5%, none 4.5% (1996)
Languages:
Kinyarwanda (official) universal Bantu vernacular, French (official), English (official), Kiswahili (Swahili) used in commercial centers
Literacy:
definition:
age 15 and over can read and write
total population:
48%
male:
52%
female:
45% (1995 est.)
GDP:
purchasing power parity - $6.4 billion (2000 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
5.8% (2000 est.)
GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $900 (2000 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
40%
industry:
20%
services:
40% (2000 est.)
Population below poverty line:
70% (2000 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
4.2%
highest 10%:
24.2% (1983-85)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
4% (2000)
Labor force:
3.6 million
Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture 90%
Unemployment rate:
NA%
Budget:
revenues:
$198 million
expenditures:
$411 million, including capital expenditures of $NA (2000 est.)
Industries:
cement, agricultural products, small-scale beverages, soap, furniture, shoes, plastic goods, textiles, cigarettes
Industrial production growth rate:
8.7% (1998 est.)
Electricity - production:
132 million kWh (1999)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
3.03%
hydro:
96.97%
nuclear:
0%
other:
0% (1999)
Electricity - consumption:
191.8 million kWh (1999)
Electricity - exports:
1 million kWh (1999)
Electricity - imports:
70 million kWh (1999)
Agriculture - products:
coffee, tea, pyrethrum (insecticide made from chrysanthemums), bananas, beans, sorghum, potatoes; livestock
Exports:
$68.4 million (f.o.b., 2000 est.)
Exports - commodities:
coffee, tea, hides, tin ore
Exports - partners:
Germany, Belgium, Pakistan, Italy, Kenya
Imports:
$245.9 million (f.o.b., 2000 est.)
Imports - commodities:
foodstuffs, machinery and equipment, steel, petroleum products, cement and construction material
Imports - partners:
Kenya, Tanzania, US, Benelux, France, India
Debt - external:
$1.3 billion (1999)
Economic aid - recipient:
$591.5 million (1997); note - in summer 1998, Rwanda presented its policy objectives and development priorities to donor governments resulting in multiyear pledges in the amount of $250 million
Currency:
Rwandan franc (RWF)
Currency code:
RWF
Exchange rates:
Rwandan francs per US dollar - 432.24 (January 2001), 389.70 (2000), 333.94 (1999) 312.31 (1998), 301.53 (1997), 306.82 (1996)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Statistics: CIA World Factbook.
Press
Kangura
(Independent), Kigali
La Griffe
(Independent), Kigali
La Tribune du Peuple
(Independent), Kigali
Le Soleil
(Independent), Kigali
(Semi-official), Kigali
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It is unlikely that former prime ministers Dominique de Villepin or Alain Juppé, or anyone else on the commission's list of French genocide suspects, will be extradited to Rwanda.
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has appointed Romeo Dallair to a new Advisory Committee on Genocide Prevention.
The Ivory Coast, once an oasis of stability in war torn West Africa sinks deeper into chaos
Rachel S. Taylor profiles Gambian jurist Hassan Bubacar, chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
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