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Rwanda's population reaches 13,2 million in 2022

Rwanda's population has reached  13,246,394 people according to the results from the fifth Population and Housing Census (PHC) conducted in 2022.

Latest findings are based on the data collected in August 2022. The analysis of the 2022 General Population Census indicates that Rwanda’s population was 13,246,394 as of August 2022, showing an inter-censal annual growth rate of 2.3% between 2012 and 2022.


Life expectancy at birth for Rwandan women to increase by 3.5 years in 2020

As one of many results of the continuous development of Rwanda, especially the health system, women will live much longer in the coming years.


The average age of first marriage increased in Rwanda in last three decades

Since the 1978 there has been a trend towards later first marriage for both men and women. The fourth Population and Housing Census conducted in Rwanda in August 2012 (2012RPHC) realized that the average age of first marriage for women climbed from 22.9 years in 1991 to 25 years in 2012, while for men it was 27.4 years in 2012 from 26.8 years both in 1991 and 2002.
 


Population of Rwanda: Results from 4th Census, 2012

The fourth Population and Housing Census conducted in August 2012 (2012 RPHC), revealed that the total population of Rwanda was at that moment 10,515,973 persons.


Women account for majority of Rwandan Population

Rwandan population is composed of mostly women, according to the provisional results of the recently conducted General Population and Housing Census.


Mapping for the 2012 Rwandan General Population and Housing Census

Less common but more useful than the methods used to develop traditional map is the new Global Positioning System (GPS) based data capturing technology which has been used by the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR) in mapping the Enumeration Areas (EA) in the preparatory stages of the fourth Population and Housing Census of Rwanda which is slated to begin on August 15, 2012.


How many are we in Rwanda?

A population census is expected to provide a precise answer to this question amongst other important questions. In fact, the United Nations defines the essential features of population and housing censuses as "individual enumeration, universality within a defined territory, simultaneity and defined periodicity", and recommends that population censuses be taken at least every 10 years.

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