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- Located in Central Africa, east of Democratic Republic of the Congo and to the South-west of Uganda
- Population in July 2004 was an estimated 7.95 million
- Languages: Kinyarwanda (official) universal Bantu vernacular, French (official), English (official), Kiswahili (Swahili) used in commercial centres
- Agriculture is the main industry, employing more than 90% of workforce
- Main export - tea and coffee
- Religion: Roman Catholic 56.5%, Protestant 26%, Adventist 11.1%, Muslim 4.6%, indigenous beliefs 0.1%, none 1.7% (2001)
- Age Structure: 0-14 years: 42.3% (male 1,690,122; female 1,674,147) 15-64 years: 55% (male 2,178,956; female 2,194,526) 65 years and over: 2.7% (male 85,472; female 130,790) (2004 est.)
- In 2003, 250,000 people carrying HIV
- Rwanda has one the highest percentages of orphans in the world, the 1994 genocide resulted in mass killings of more than a million people
