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	* '''Quasi money''' (with M1 makes [[Money supply#M2\|M2]]): $227.4 million (31 December 2005)<ref name="CIA_RW" />		* '''Quasi money''' (with M1 makes [[Money supply#M2\|M2]]): $227.4 million (31 December 2005)<ref name="CIA_RW" />

			===Notable events:===
			* [[Banking crisis]]: 1991<ref name="Reinhart_crisis">Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff. [http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8973.html "This Time is Different"], ''Princeton University Press'', ISBN 978-0-691-14216-6, p. 380. (The list does not claim to be complete.) Referenced 2011-07-21.</ref>

	===Statistics===		===Statistics===

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	\|Row 4 info = 10,746,311<ref name="CIA_RW">CIA - The World ~~Facebook~~. [https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/countrytemplate_rw.html "Rwanda"], from The World ~~Facebook~~. Referenced 2010-10-04.</ref>		\|Row 4 info = 10,746,311<ref name="CIA_RW">CIA - The World Factbook. [https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/countrytemplate_rw.html "Rwanda"], from The World Factbook. Referenced 2010-10-04.</ref>
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	\|Row 5 info = 2.866% (2010 est.)<ref name="CIA_RW" />		\|Row 5 info = 2.866% (2010 est.)<ref name="CIA_RW" />

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	==~~External links~~==		==Links==
	* [[Wikipedia:Rwanda\|Rwanda]] on Wikipedia		* [[Wikipedia:Rwanda\|Rwanda]] on Wikipedia
	* [http://www.bnr.rw Central bank] of Rwanda		* [http://www.bnr.rw Central bank] of Rwanda

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{{Infobox
|Box title = Country summary
|Row 1 title = Capital
|Row 1 info = Kigali
|Row 2 title = Borders
|Row 2 info = [[Burundi]] 290 km, [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]] 217 km, [[Tanzania]] 217 km, [[Uganda]] 169 km
|Row 3 title = Government type
|Row 3 info = republic; presidential, multiparty system
|Row 4 title = Population
|Row 4 info = 10,746,311<ref name="CIA_RW">CIA - The World Facebook. [https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/countrytemplate_rw.html "Rwanda"], from The World Facebook. Referenced 2010-10-04.</ref>
|Row 5 title = Population growth
|Row 5 info = 2.866% (2010 est.)<ref name="CIA_RW" />
|Row 6 title = Life expectancy
|Row 6 info = 56.77 years<ref name="CIA_RW" />
|Row 7 title = Unemployment
|Row 7 info = NA%<ref name="CIA_RW" />
|Row 8 title = [[Wikipedia:Index of Economic Freedom|Index of Economic Freedom]]
|Row 8 info = 93<ref name="Heritage_RW">Heritage Foundation. [http://www.heritage.org/Index/Country/Rwanda "Rwanda"], Economic Freedom Score. A lower ranking is better; but please be careful when comparing between different countries or years. Referenced 2010-10-04.</ref>
|Row 9 title = [[Wikipedia:Corruption Perceptions Index|Corruption Perceptions Index]]
|Row 9 info = 89<ref name="Transparency_RW">Transparency International. [http://www.transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/cpi/2009/cpi_2009_table "Rwanda"], Corruption Perceptions Index 2009. A lower ranking is better; but please note that the numbers cannot be compared between countries or years due to different methodology. Referenced 2010-10-04.</ref>
|Row 10 title = [[Wikipedia:Doing Business Report|Doing Business ranking]]
|Row 10 info = 67<ref name="Business_RW">Doing Business. [http://www.doingbusiness.org/economyrankings/ "Rwanda"], Doing Business 2010 (part of The World Bank Group). A lower ranking is better; but please be careful when comparing between different countries or years. Referenced 2010-10-04.</ref>
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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 '''Rwanda'''n 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.<ref name="CIA_RW" />

==Economical characteristics==
* '''Currency''': Rwandan franc (ISO code: RWF)
* Central bank '''[[Wikipedia:Discount rate|discount rate]]''': 11.25% (31 December 2008)<ref name="CIA_RW" />
* Commercial banks '''lending rate''': NA% (31 December 2009 )<ref name="CIA_RW" />
* '''Stock of money''' ([[Money supply#M1|M1]]): $233.6 million (31 December 2005)<ref name="CIA_RW" />
* '''Quasi money''' (with M1 makes [[Money supply#M2|M2]]): $227.4 million (31 December 2005)<ref name="CIA_RW" />

===Statistics===
{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" style="text-align:center"
| Statistic / Year
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! [[GDP]] (million USD)<ref name="WorldBank_GDP_RW">World Bank. [http://open.worldbank.org/countries/rw/indicators%5BNY.GDP.MKTP.CD%5D?date=1999:2009 "Rwanda: GDP"], from World Bank [http://data.worldbank.org/ Data]. Referenced 2010-10-04.</ref>
| 1 931
| 1 735
| 1 675
| 1 641
| 1 777
| 1 972
| 2 390
| 2 835
| 3 412
| 4 457
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! Govt. debt (% of GDP)<ref name="WorldBank_Debt_RW">World Bank. [http://open.worldbank.org/countries/rw/indicators%5BGC.DOD.TOTL.GD.ZS%5D?date=1999:2009 "Rwanda: government debt"], from World Bank [http://data.worldbank.org/ Data]. Referenced 2010-10-04.</ref>
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! Govt. revenue (% of GDP)<ref name="WorldBank_Revenue_RW">World Bank. [http://open.worldbank.org/countries/rw/indicators%5BGC.REV.XGRT.GD.ZS%5D?date=1999:2009 "Rwanda: government revenue"], from World Bank [http://data.worldbank.org/ Data]. Referenced 2010-10-04.</ref>
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! Govt. expenses (% of GDP)<ref name="WorldBank_Expenses_RW">World Bank. [http://open.worldbank.org/countries/rw/indicators%5BGC.XPN.TOTL.GD.ZS%5D?date=1999:2009 "Rwanda: government expenses"], from World Bank [http://data.worldbank.org/ Data]. Referenced 2010-10-04.</ref>
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==References==
<small>Note: statistical data was rounded. Different sources may use different methodologies for their estimates. Debt to revenue is calculated by dividing the two variables from their original ('unrounded') values. It represents how long it would a government take to repay its entire debt if it used its whole revenue for this purpose.</small>
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==External links==
* [[Wikipedia:Rwanda|Rwanda]] on Wikipedia
* [http://www.bnr.rw Central bank] of Rwanda
* [http://www.enterprisesurveys.org/documents/EnterpriseSurveys/Reports/Rwanda-2006.pdf Country profile] (pdf) from the Enterprise Studies page (part of the The World Bank Group)
* BBC [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/country_profiles/1070265.stm country profile]
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