Rwanda

    Religious Affiliation
    Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
    Total Population
    12,501,156 1
    Urban
    17.20% 1
    Rural
    82.80% 1
    Immigrants as % of Population
    3.8% 2
    Level of Public Corruption
    50 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
    Gender Equality in the Economy, Health, Education and Politics
    5 (1=most equal, 144=least equal) 7
    Fertility Rate
    3.80 births per adult woman 5
    Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
    4.20% 5
    Life Expectancy at Birth
    65 years 5
    Adult Literacy Rate
    65.85% 5
    Internet Users
    11% 5
    Gross National Income per Capita
    US$700 5
    Population Living Below US$1.90 per Day
    60.3% 5

    These statistics are derived from the Vatican's official publication, Statistical Yearbook of the Church 2020 (Vatican City: Librera Editrice Vaticana, 2022). The numbers may differ from data reported by other sources on this site.

    Baptized Catholics
    5,930,000
    Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
    46.82
    Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
    78,819
    Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
    69,254
    First Communions per Year
    72,234
    Confirmations per Year
    101,149
    Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
    1,045,601
    Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
    367,859
    Students Enrolled in Catholic Higher Education
    8,348
    Church Marriages per Year
    27,380
    Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
    26,208
    Priests
    939
    Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
    2,219
    Catholics per Priest
    6,315
    Parishes
    205
    Mission Stations (no resident priests)
    196
    Catholic Hospitals
    10
    Homes for Aged, Handicapped, Invalids
    26
    • 1 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2018). World Urbanization Prospects: The 2018 Revision, Online Edition.
    • 2 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Trends in International Migrant Stock: The 2015 revision.
    • 3 United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, Homicide Statistics 2015.
    • 4 Transparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index 2016.
    • 5 UNICEF, State of the World's Children, 2016.
    • 6 Statistical Yearbook of the Church 2020 (Vatican City: Librera Editrice Vaticana, 2022).
    • 7 World Economic Forum, The Global Gender Gap Report, 2016.