ACOG - Rwanda  - IBM

Geography

Location: Central Africa, east of Zaire

Area:
total area: 26,340 sq km
land area: 24,950 sq km
comparative area: slightly smaller than Maryland

Land boundaries: total 893 km, Burundi 290 km, Tanzania 217 km, Uganda 169 km, Zaire217 km

Coastline: 0 km


People

Population: 8,605,307 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 51% (female 2,184,549; male 2,201,049)
15-64 years: 47% (female 2,034,278; male 1,968,298)
65 years and over: 2% (female 126,255; male 90,878)

Population growth rate: 2.67% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 48.52 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 21.82 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: NA migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 118.1 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 39.33 years
male: 38.5 years
female: 40.19 years

Total fertility rate: 8.12 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: Hutu 90%, Tutsi 9%, Twa (Pygmoid) 1%

Religions: Roman Catholic 65%, Protestant 9%, Muslim 1%, indigenous beliefs andother 25%

Languages: Kinyarwanda (official), French (official), Kiswahili used in commercial centers

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1990 est.)
total population: 50%
male: 64%
female: 37%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: Republic of Rwanda
conventional short form: Rwanda

Type: republic; presidential system

Capital: Kigali

Independence: 1 July 1962 (from Belgium-administered UN trusteeship)

Constitution: 18 June 1991


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $7.9 billion

National product real growth rate: -8%

National product per capita: $950

Inflation rate (consumer prices):

Unemployment rate:

Electricity:
capacity: 60,000 kW
production: 190 million kWh
consumption per capita: 23 kWh



Olympic Factoid
More tickets were sold to the competitions of the 1996 Games than to any other Olympic Games or sports event in history. The 8.6 million ticket sales figures topped sales to the Los Angeles and Barcelona Games combined.