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# Population Rwanda

- The current population of Rwanda is 13,058,977 as of Tuesday, November 3, 2020, based on Worldometer elaboration of the latest United Nations data.
- Rwanda population is equivalent to 0.17% of the total world population.
- Rwanda ranks number 76 in the list of countries (and dependencies) by population.
- [Nationality:](https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/print_rw.html) Rwandan(s)
- [Ethnic Groups:](https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/print_rw.html) Hutu, Tutsi, Twa
- [Languages:](https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/print_rw.html)
   - Kinyarwanda (official, universal Bantu vernacular) 93.2%
   - French (official) 
   - English (official) 
   - Swahili/Kiswahili (official, used in commercial centers) 
   - Other 6.3%, 
   - Unspecified 0.3% (2002 est.)
- [Religions:](https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/print_rw.html)
   - Protestant 49.5%
   - Roman Catholic 43.7%
   - Muslim 2%
   - Other 0.9% 
   - None 2.5%
   - Unspecified 1.3%
 
|      Year       | Population Size (000's) | Gender | Population by Gender |
|:---------------:|:-----------------------:|:------:|:-------------------:|
|      2000       |          7965.          |  Male  |       3819.3        |
|                 |                         | Female |       4146.0        |
|      2020       |          13162.         |  Male  |       6461.8        |
|                 |                         | Female |       6701.0        |
| 2040 (forecast) |         19594.         |  Male  |       9651.8        |
|                 |                         | Female |       9942.9        |
<small> Population Size (000's)
De facto population in a country or region, classified by sex and by five-year age groups. Available in all scenarios and at all geographical scales. Figures are presented in thousands.</small> [^wittgenstein_centre] 

<small> Medium (SSP2)
Population Component of Medium (SSP2): This is the middle of the road scenario that can also be seen as the most likely path for each country. It combines for all countries medium fertility with medium mortality, medium migration, and the Global Education Trend (GET) education scenario</small> [^wittgenstein_centre]

|      Year       | Median Age |
|:---------------:|:----------:|
|      2000       |    17.1    |
|      2020       |    20.1    |
| 2040 (forecast) |    24.3    |

<small>Population Median Age
Age that divides the population in two parts of equal size: There are as many people with ages above the median as there are with ages below the median. Available in all scenarios and at all geographical scales. It is expressed in years.</small>[^wittgenstein_centre]

<small> Population projections are a common demographic tool. They provide a basis for other statistical projections, helping governments in their decision making. This indicator is measured in terms of annual growth rate and in thousands of people. [^OECD] </small>

> Twenty-five years ago, the Genocide against the Tutsi left Rwanda far behind on all development indicators and it's entire socio-economic fabric destroyed. Since 2000, Rwanda has registered inclusive growth, averaging 8% annually leading to millions being lifted out of poverty and good progress in all development sectors. [^united_nations]

GENOCIDE RWANDA
> By the early 1990s, Rwanda, a small country with an overwhelmingly agricultural economy, had one of the highest population densities in Africa. About 85 percent of its population was Hutu; the rest were Tutsi, along with a small number of Twa, a group who were the original inhabitants of Rwanda.
[^history]
> During the Rwandan genocide of 1994, members of the Hutu ethnic majority in the east-central African nation of Rwanda murdered as many as 800,000 people, mostly of the Tutsi minority. [^history]

> The mass killings in Kigali quickly spread from that city to the rest of Rwanda. In the first two weeks, local administrators in central and southern Rwanda, where most Tutsi lived, resisted the genocide. After April 18, national officials removed the resisters and killed several of them. Other opponents then fell silent or actively led the killing. Officials rewarded killers with food, drink, drugs and money. Government-sponsored radio stations started calling on ordinary Rwandan civilians to murder their neighbors. Within three months, some 800,000 people had been slaughtered.
[^history]
> More than 2 million people, nearly all Hutus, fled Rwanda, crowding into refugee camps in the Congo (then called Zaire) and other neighboring countries. [^history]

> As former U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali told the PBS news program Frontline: “The failure of Rwanda is 10 times greater than the failure of Yugoslavia. Because in Yugoslavia the international community was interested, was involved. In Rwanda nobody was interested.” [^history]

REFERENCES: 
https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/rwanda-population/

[^united_nations]: https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics/nsds/index.php?page=view&type=6&nr=225&menu=139
[^wittgenstein_centre]: http://dataexplorer.wittgensteincentre.org/wcde-v2/
[^OECD]: https://data.oecd.org/pop/population.htm#:~:text=Population%20is%20defined%20as%20all,net%20migration%20during%20the%20year
[^history]: https://www.history.com/topics/africa/rwandan-genocide