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Rwanda is a poor rural country with about 90% of the population engaged in (mainly subsistence) agriculture. It is the most densely populated country in Africa and is landlocked with few natural resources and minimal industry. Primary foreign exchange earners are coffee and tea. The 1994 genocide decimated Rwanda's fragile economic base, severely impoverished the population, particularly women, and eroded the country's ability to attract private and external investment. However, Rwanda has made substantial progress in stabilizing and rehabilitating its economy to pre-1994 levels, although poverty levels are higher now. GDP has rebounded and inflation has been curbed. Despite Rwanda's fertile ecosystem, food production often does not keep pace with population growth, requiring food imports. Rwanda continues to receive substantial aid money and obtained IMF-World Bank Heavily Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) initiative debt relief in 2005-06.

(purchasing power parity) $9.729 billion (2008 est.) $8.749 billion (2007 est.) $8.108 billion (2006 est.) //note:// data are in 2008 US dollars

Percent below the poverty line 60%(2001)

percent of industry 90% agricultural 10% industrial

The population in Rwanda is currently around ten million people. In perspective the Rwanda Genocide was reported with a death toll of 800,000 actually had a death toll of about one million or a tenth of the population. Additionally the country is constantly plagued by its high number of citizens infected with HIV and a low industrialized percentage

Population 10,473,282

Age distribution 0-14 years: 42.1% (male 2,216,352/female 2,196,327) 15-64 years: 55.4% (male 2,897,003/female 2,909,994) 65 years and over: 2.4% (male 100,920/female 152,686) (2009 est.)

median age is 18.7years

Percentile of each ethnic group 84 hutu 15 tutsi 1 twa

Death rate vs Birth rate 14.02/1000population 39.67/1000population

HIV rates 150,000 number infected(2009) 7,800 of deaths annually due to the diases

Urbanization percent currently urbanized 18% rate of urbanization 4.2 at the current rate it will take 20 years to completely urbanize

Literacy rate 70.4% total 76.3% male 64.7% female

School length average 9 years 8 for girls and 9 for boys

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