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RWANDA
Rwandese Republic GEOGRAPHY: - Location:----------------- Central Africa
- Area:
Total area:--- 26,340 sq. km
Land area:--- 24,950 sq. km
- Capital
city:------------- Kigali
- Natural Resources:---------------- Gold, cassiterite (tin ore), wolframite
(tungsten ore), natural gas, hydropower
PEOPLE:
- Population:----------------
7,956,172
- Literacy rate:-------------- 60.5% of total population, (Males:69.8%, Females:51.6%)
- Languages:------------------ Kinyarwanda (official), French (offcial), Kiswahili (swahili)
used in commercial centers
- Religious:----------------- 65%-Roman Catholic, 9%-Protestant, 1%-Muslim,
25%-indigenous beliefs and other.
VITAL STATISTICS:
- Birth rate:-------------
38.73 (per 1,000 population)(1997)
- Death rate:------------- 21.06 (per 1,000 population)
- Infant Mortality rate:------------ 118.8 (deaths per 1,000 live births)
- Fertility
rate:--------------- 5.93 (per woman)
- Life Expectancy at birth:
Total population:---
39.11 (Males:38.64, Females:39.6)
GOVERNMENT:
- Type of Government:--------------
Republic; presidential system
- Independence:-------------- July 1, 1962 (from Belgium-administered
UN trusteeship)
- President:-------------- Pasteur Bizimungu
- Prime
Minister:------------ Pierre Celestine Rwigema.
ECONOMY:
- GDP:---------------
purchasing power parity - $3.8 billion (1995)
GDP real growth rate:--- NA%
GDP per capita:---
$400
- Inflation rate (consumer prices):------------- 22% (1995)
- National
budget:
Revenues:--- $NA
Expenditures:--- $NA
- External
Debt:-------------- $873 million
- Currency:--------------- 1 Rwandan franc = 100 centimes
- Labor force:--------------- 3.6 million (1995)
- Unemployment rate:----------------
NA%
- Agriculture:---------------- Coffee, tea, pyrethrum (insecticide made from chrysanthemums),
bananas, beans, sorghum, potatoes; livestock
- Industries:--------------- Mining of cassiterite
(tin ore), and wolframite (tungsten ore), tin, cement, agricultural processing, small-scale beverage production, soap, furniture,
shoes, plastic goods, textiles, cigarettes.
- Exports:---------------- $51.2 billion
Commodities:--- Coffee, tea, cassiterite, wolframite, pyrethrum. - Imports:---------------- $237.3
million
Commodities:--- Textiles, foodstuff, machines, and equipment, capital goods, steel, petroleum products,
cement and construction.
DEFENCE:
- Defence Expenditures:--------------- Exchange
rate conversion - $112.5 million, 7% of GDP
Geography:Rwanda
is located in east centra Africa. It is surrounded by Zaire, Uganda, Tanzania and Burundi
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