est.)
note:
the demographic estimates were prepared before civil strife, starting
in April 1994, set in motion substantial and continuing population
changes
Population growth rate:
2.78% (1994 est.)
Birth rate:
49.17 births/1,000 population (1994 est.)
Death rate:
21.35 deaths/1,000 population (1994 est.)
Net migration rate:
0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1994 est.)
Infant mortality rate:
118.7 deaths/1,000 live births (1994 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population:
40.25 years
male:
39.33 years
female:
41.21 years (1994 est.)
Total fertility rate:
8.19 children born/woman (1994 est.)
Nationality:
noun:
Rwandan(s)
adjective:
Rwandan
Ethnic divisions:
Hutu 90%, Tutsi 9%, Twa (Pygmoid) 1%
Religions:
Roman Catholic 65%, Protestant 9%, Muslim 1%, indigenous beliefs and
other 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%
Labor force:
3.6 million
by occupation:
agriculture 93%, government and services 5%, industry and commerce 2%
note:
49% of population of working age (1985)

@Rwanda, Government

Names:
conventional long form:
Republic of Rwanda
conventional short form:
Rwanda
local long form:
Republika y'u Rwanda
local short form:
Rwanda
Digraph:
RW
Type:
republic; presidential system
note:
a new, interim government formed in August 1992 to last until peace
accord; political parties are working to form a multiethical
broad-based transitonal government to lead them to elections in 1995
Capital:
Kigali
Administrative divisions:
10 prefectures (prefectures, singular - prefecture in French; plural -
NA, singular - prefegitura in Kinyarwanda); Butare, Byumba, Cyangugu,
Gikongoro, Gisenyi, Gitarama, Kibungo, Kibuye, Kigali, Ruhengeri
Independence:
1 July 1962 (from UN trusteeship under Belgian administration)
National holiday:
Independence Day, 1 July (1962)
Constitution:
18 June 1991
Legal system:
based on German and Belgian civil law systems and customary law;
judicial review of legislative acts in the Supreme Court; has not
accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction
Suffrage:
universal adult at age NA
Executive branch:
chief of state:
Interim President Dr. Theodore SINDIKUBWABO (since 8 April 1994,
following the death of Presiden