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People

11,055,976
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note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality, higher death rates, lower population growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2010 est.)
0-14 years: 42.7% (male 2,309,323/female 2,277,269)
15-64 years: 54.8% (male 2,932,686/female 2,961,300)
65 years and over: 2.5% (male 106,740/female 158,993) (2010 est.)
total: 18.6 years
male: 18.4 years
female: 18.9 years (2010 est.)
2.818% (2010 est.)
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37.26 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)
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10.19 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.)
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1.11 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2010 est.)
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urban population: 18% of total population (2008)
rate of urbanization: 4.2% annual rate of change (2005-10 est.)
at birth: 1.03 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.01 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 0.99 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.67 male(s)/female
total population: 0.99 male(s)/female (2010 est.)
total: 65.57 deaths/1,000 live births
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male: 69.21 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 61.83 deaths/1,000 live births (2010 est.)
total population: 57.46 years
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male: 56.06 years
female: 58.91 years (2010 est.)
4.99 children born/woman (2010 est.)
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2.8% (2007 est.)
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150,000 (2007 est.)
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7,800 (2007 est.)
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degree of risk: very high
food or waterborne diseases: bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever
vectorborne disease: malaria
animal contact disease: rabies (2009)
noun: Rwandan(s)
adjective: Rwandan
Hutu (Bantu) 84%, Tutsi (Hamitic) 15%, Twa (Pygmy) 1%
Roman Catholic 56.5%, Protestant 26%, Adventist 11.1%, Muslim 4.6%, indigenous beliefs 0.1%, none 1.7% (2001)
Kinyarwanda (official) universal Bantu vernacular, French (official), English (official), Kiswahili (Swahili) used in commercial centers
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 70.4%
male: 76.3%
female: 64.7% (2003 est.)
total: 11 years
male: 9 years
female: 9 years (2008)
4.1% of GDP (2008)
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Rwanda is the most densely populated country in Africa


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