🇷🇼Rwanda

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Population

14.6M

2.2%as of 2025

Fertility Rate

3.65

births/woman

Life Expectancy

68.0y

GDP / capita

$1.1K

Pop. Growth

2.17%

Net Migration

6.3K

Population over time

Total population · observed (solid) and UN medium projection to 2100 (dashed)

Source: World Bank · UN World Population Prospects 2024

Fertility rate over time

Births per woman · dashed line = replacement (2.1)

Source: World Bank

Where immigrants come from

Largest foreign-born communities in Rwanda by country of birth (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇨🇩Congo, Dem. Rep.236.4K(46.9%)

+14%

🇧🇮Burundi130.9K(25.9%)

+102%

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Population projections to 2100

Official UN projections — Low / Medium / High variants

Source: UN World Population Prospects 2024

Population pyramid (2025)

Age & sex structure · share of total population by 5-year cohort

Male7.1MTotal 14.6M7.5MFemale

Source: birthrate.io model

GDP per capita over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Life expectancy over time

Years at birth

Source: World Bank

Society, housing & beliefs

Family, crime, housing and religion indicators

Homicide rate

3.6

per 100,000

Divorce rate

—

per 1,000

Births outside marriage

—

of births

Home ownership

—

of households

Homicide rate over time

Intentional homicides per 100,000 people

Source: World Bank / UNODC

Where the Rwanda diaspora lives

Top destinations for people born in Rwanda who now live abroad (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇨🇩Congo, Dem. Rep.286.2K(53.1%)

+131%

🇧🇮Burundi86K(15.9%)

+57%

🇺🇬Uganda79.1K(14.7%)

−6%

🇨🇬Congo, Rep.24.8K(4.6%)

+31%

🇧🇪Belgium15.4K(2.9%)

+21%

🇿🇲Zambia12.2K(2.3%)

+64%

🇨🇦Canada9.3K(1.7%)

+84%

🇲🇼Malawi6.1K(1.1%)

−5%

🇰🇪Kenya5.2K(1.0%)

−16%

🇿🇦South Africa3.2K(0.6%)

+1%

🇨🇳China1.4K(0.3%)

+872%

🇦🇺Australia1.3K(0.2%)

+120%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024