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Property	Type	Value	Unit	Rank	Empirical method	Date	Comparison
Birth rate	Population property	37.26	Per 1000 Inhabitants	23	Estimation	2010	Birth rate
Death rate	Population property	10.19	Per 1000 Inhabitants	56	Estimation	2010	Death rate
Infant Mortality Rate	Health property	65.57	Per 1000 Live Births	26	Estimation	2010	Infant Mortality Rate
Life Expectancy at Birth	Population property	57.46	Years	193	Estimation	2010	Life Expectancy at Birth
Net Migration Rate	Population property	1.11	Per 1000 Inhabitants	48	Estimation	2010	Net Migration Rate
Population growth rate	Population property	2.82	Percent	15	Estimation	2010	Population growth rate
Total Fertility Rate	Population property	4.99	Born per Woman	23	Estimation	2010	Total Fertility Rate
Electricity production	Economic property	120	Gigawatt hour	186	Estimation		Electricity production
Natural gas consumption	Economic property	0	1 Mil. Cubic metre	151	Estimation		Natural gas consumption
Natural gas production	Economic property	0	1 Mil. Cubic metre	139	Estimation		Natural gas production
GDP growth rate	Economic property	5.50	Percent	19	Estimation		GDP growth rate
GDP - per capita (PPP)	Economic property	900	Dollar	216	Estimation		GDP - per capita (PPP)
GDP	Economic property	11020	Million dollar	145	Estimation		GDP
Industrial production growth rate	Economic property	7.00	Percent	13	Estimation		Industrial production growth rate
Inflation rate	Economic property	14.20	Percent	212	Estimation		Inflation rate
Oil consumption	Economic property	6	1000 Barrel per day	162	Estimation		Oil consumption
Oil production	Economic property	0	1000 Barrel per day	140	Estimation		Oil production
Area	Geo property	26338	Square kilometer	148			Area
HIV/AIDS - Adult Prevalence Rate	Health property	2.80	Percent	25			HIV/AIDS - Adult Prevalence Rate
HIV/AIDS - deaths	Health property	7800		37			HIV/AIDS - deaths
People living with HIV/AIDS	Health property	150000		37			People living with HIV/AIDS
Population size	Population property	11055976		74			Population size

Organisation / Group	Aim	status
International Organization for Standardization	to promote the development of international standards with a view to facilitating international exchange of goods and services and to developing cooperation in the sphere of intellectual, scientific, technological and economic activity	correspondent
African, Caribbean, and Pacific Group of States	to manage their preferential economic and aid relationship with the EU
African Development Bank Group	to promote economic development and social progress
African Union	to achieve greater unity among African States;to defend states' integrity and independence;to accelerate political, social, and economic integration;to encourage international cooperation;to promote democratic principles and institutions
Commonwealth	to foster multinational cooperation and assistance, as a voluntary association that evolved from the British Empire
Economic Community of the Great Lakes Countries	to promote regional economic cooperation and integration
Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa	recognizing, promoting and protecting fundamental human rights, commitment to the principles of liberty and rule of law, maintaining peace and stability through the promotion and strengthening of good neighborliness, commitment to peaceful settlement of disputes among member states
East African Community	to establish a political and economic union among the countries
East African Development Bank	to promote economic development
Food and Agriculture Organization	to raise living standards and increase availability of agricultural products;a UN specialized agency
Group of 77	to promote economic cooperation among developing countries;name persists in spite of increased membership
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development	to provide economic development loans;a UN specialized agency
International Civil Aviation Organization	to promote international cooperation in civil aviation;a UN specialized agency
International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement	to promote worldwide humanitarian aid through the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in wartime, and International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRCS;formerly League of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies or LORCS) in peacetime
International Development Association	to provide economic loans for low-income countries;UN specialized agency and IBRD affiliate
International Fund for Agricultural Development	to promote agricultural development;a UN specialized agency
International Finance Corporation	to support private enterprise in international economic development;a UN specialized agency and IBRD affiliate
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies	to organize, coordinate, and direct international relief actions;to promote humanitarian activities;to represent and encourage the development of National Societies;to bring help to victims of armed conflicts, refugees, and displaced people;to reduce the vulnerability of people through development programs
International Labor Organization	to deal with world labor issues;a UN specialized agency
International Monetary Fund	to promote world monetary stability and economic development;a UN specialized agency
International Criminal Police Organization	to promote international cooperation among police authorities in fighting crime
International Olympic Committee	to promote the Olympic ideals and administer the Olympic games: 2012 Summer Olympics in London, UK;2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia
International Organization for Migration	to facilitate orderly international emigration and immigration
Inter-Parliamentary Union	fosters contacts among parliamentarians, considers and expresses views of international interest and concern with the purpose of bringing about action by parliaments and parliamentarians, contributes to the defense and promotion of human rights, contributes to better knowledge of representative institutions
International Telecommunications Satellites Organization	to act as a watchdog over Intelsat, Ltd., a private company, to make sure it provides on a global and non-discriminatory basis public telecommunication services
International Telecommunication Union	to deal with world telecommunications issues;a UN specialized agency
International Trade Union Confederation	to promote the trade union movement
Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency	encourages flow of foreign direct investment among member countries by offering investment insurance, consultation, and negotiation on conditions for foreign investment and technical assistance;a UN specialized agency
United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad	to create the security and conditions which will to contribute to the protection of refugees, displaced persons, and citizens in danger, to facilitate the provision of humanitarian assistance in eastern Chad and the northeastern Central African Republic, to create favorable conditions for the reconstruction and economic and social development of these areas
Nonaligned Movement	to establish political and military cooperation apart from the traditional East or West blocs
International Organization of the French-speaking World	founded around a common language to promote and spread the cultures of its members and to reinforce cultural and technical cooperation between them
Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons	to enforce the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling, and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction;to provide a forum for consultation and cooperation among the signatories of the Convention
United Nations	to maintain international peace and security and to promote cooperation involving economic, social, cultural, and humanitarian problems
African Union/United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur	to contribute to the restoration of security conditions which will allow safe humanitarian assistance throughout Darfur, to contribute to the protection of civilian populations under imminent threat of physical attack, to monitor, observe compliance with, and verify the implementation of various ceasefire agreements
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development	to promote international trade
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization	to promote cooperation in education, science, and culture
United Nations Industrial Development Organization	UN specialized agency that promotes industrial development especially among the members
United Nations Mission in the Sudan	to support implementation of the comprehensive Peace Agreement by Monitoring and verifying the implementation of the Cease Fire Agreement, by observing and monitoring movements of armed groups, and by helping disarm, demobilizing and reintegrating armed bands
World Tourism Organization	to promote tourism as a means of contributing to economic development, international understanding, and peace
Universal Postal Union	to promote international postal cooperation;a UN specialized agency
World Customs Organization	to promote international cooperation in customs matters
World Federation of Trade Unions	to promote the trade union movement
World Health Organization	to deal with health matters worldwide;a UN specialized agency
World Intellectual Property Organization	to furnish protection for literary, artistic, and scientific works;a UN specialized agency
World Meteorological Organization	to sponsor meteorological cooperation;a UN specialized agency
World Trade Organization	to provide a forum to resolve trade conflicts between members and to carry on negotiations with the goal of further lowering and/or eliminating tariffs and other trade barriers

Names (6)

Rwanda : Name
Republic of Rwanda : Longname
Rwanda : Name
- Local
Republika y'u Rwanda : Longname
- Local
Ruanda : Name
- Former
German East Africa : Name
- Former

Description

In 1959, three years before independence from Belgium, the majority ethnic group, the Hutus, overthrew the ruling Tutsi king. Over the next several years, thousands of Tutsis were killed, and some 150,000 driven into exile in neighboring countries. The children of these exiles later formed a rebel group, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), and began a civil war in 1990. The war, along with several political and economic upheavals, exacerbated ethnic tensions, culminating in April 1994 in the genocide of roughly 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus. The Tutsi rebels defeated the Hutu regime and ended the killing in July 1994, but approximately 2 million Hutu refugees - many fearing Tutsi retribution - fled to neighboring Burundi, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zaire. Since then, most of the refugees have returned to Rwanda, but several thousand remained in the neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC;the former Zaire) and formed an extremist insurgency bent on retaking Rwanda, much as the RPF tried in 1990. Rwanda held its first local elections in 1999 and its first post-genocide presidential and legislative elections in 2003. Rwanda in 2009 staged a joint military operation with the Congolese Army in DRC to rout out the Hutu extremist insurgency there and Kigali and Kinshasa restored diplomatic relations. Rwanda also joined the Commonwealth in late 2009.