Population: 6,853,359 (July 1996 est.)
note: genocide and civil war in 1994 killed more than 1 million
Rwandans and forced more than 2 million to flee to neighboring
countries
Age structure:
0-14 years: 46% (male 1,582,928; female 1,573,536)
15-64 years: 51% (male 1,734,716; female 1,772,722)
65 years and over: 3% (male 78,854; female 110,603) (July 1996 est.)
Population growth rate: 16.49% (1996 est.)
Birth rate: 38.83 births/1,000 population (1996 est.)
Death rate: 20.33 deaths/1,000 population (1996 est.)
Net migration rate: 146.43 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1996 est.) note: since April 1994, more than two million refugees have fled the civil strife between the Hutu and Tutsi factions in Rwanda and crossed into Zaire, Burundi, and Tanzania; close to 800,000 Rwandan Tutsis who fled civil strife in earlier years have returned to Rwanda, and 90,000 of the Hutu refugees are going home despite the perceived danger of doing so; the ethnic violence continues and in 1996 could produce further refugee flows as well as discourage returns
Sex ratio:
at birth: 1.03 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.01 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 0.98 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.71 male(s)/female
all ages: 0.98 male(s)/female (1996 est.)
Infant mortality rate: 118.8 deaths/1,000 live births (1996 est.)
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 40.12 years male: 39.72 years female: 40.53 years (1996 est.)
Total fertility rate: 5.99 children born/woman (1996 est.)