Imports: $37 million (1994 est.) commodities: textiles, foodstuffs, machines and equipment, capital goods, steel, petroleum products, cement and construction material partners: US, Belgium, Germany, Kenya, Japan
External debt: $873 million (1993 est.)
Economic aid:
recipient: ODA, $NA
note: in October 1990 Rwanda launched a Structural Adjustment
Program with the IMF; since September 1991, the EC has given $46
million and the US $25 million in support of this program (1993)
Currency: 1 Rwandan franc (RF) = 100 centimes
Exchange rates: Rwandan francs (RF) per US$1 - 401.27 (2nd quarter 1994), 168.20 (1993), 133.35 (1992), 125.14 (1991)
Fiscal year: calendar year
Transportation ———————
Railways: 0 km
Highways: total: 13,173 km paved: 1,186 km unpaved: 11,987 km (1990 est.)
Waterways: Lac Kivu navigable by shallow-draft barges and native craft