Ruanda - Daten & Fakten
Länderstatistik
geographic coordinates: 1 57 S, 30 03 E
time difference: UTC+2 (7 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time)
etymology: the city takes its name from nearby Mount Kigali; the name "Kigali" is composed of the Bantu prefix ki and the Rwandan gali meaning "broad" and likely refers to the broad, sprawling hill that has been dignified with the title of "mount"
citizenship by descent only: the father must be a citizen of Rwanda; if the father is stateless or unknown, the mother must be a citizen
dual citizenship recognized: no
residency requirement for naturalization: 10 years
land: 24,668 sq km
water: 1,670 sq km
arable land: 47% (2018 est.)
permanent crops: 10.1% (2018 est.)
permanent pasture: 17.4% (2018 est.)
forest: 18% (2018 est.)
other: 7.5% (2018 est.)
15-64 years: 59.1% (male 3,844,259/female 4,075,978)
65 years and over: 2.95% (2023 est.) (male 158,647/female 236,702)
major-language sample(s):
Inkoranya nzimbuzi y'isi, isoko fatizo y'amakuru y'ibanze. (Kinyarwanda)
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male: 64.2 years
female: 68.2 years
male: 19.8 years
female: 21.2 years
note: data represents median age at first birth among women 25-49
rate of urbanization: 3.07% annual rate of change (2020-25 est.)
male: 11 years
female: 11 years (2019)
1.49% (2020 est.)
1.1% (2019 est.)
37.3% of GDP (2016 est.)
9.85% (2020 est.)
3.35% (2019 est.)
$1.929 billion (2020 est.) note: data are in current year dollars
$2.255 billion (2019 est.)
$3.578 billion (2020 est.) note: data are in current year dollars
$3.737 billion (2019 est.)
subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 0.1 (2020 est.)
percent of population: 30% (2021 est.)
paved: 1,207 km (2012)
unpaved: 3,493 km (2012)
subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: (2021 est.) less than 1
subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 81 (2021 est.)
Rwanda-Burundi: Burundi's Ngozi province and Rwanda's Butare province dispute the two-kilometer-square hilly farmed area of Sabanerwa in the Rukurazi Valley where the Akanyaru/Kanyaru River shifted its course southward after heavy rains in 1965 around Kibinga Hill in Rwanda's Butare Province
Rwanda-Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): the 2005 DRC and Rwanda border verification mechanism to stem rebel actions on both sides of the border remains in place
Rwanda-Uganda: a joint technical committee established in 2007 to demarcate sections of the border