Rwanda
Rwanda in numbers
37 measures of Rwanda from 1800 to 2025, each charted year by year with where it comes from. Where a source publishes projections, they run on to 2100, drawn apart from the estimates.
Every measure
Health
People
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spending1.29% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$194M in 2025
- Military spending per person$13 in 2025
- Military share of state spending4.7% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel35,000 people in 2020
- National power0.07% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.7% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports37 million TIV in 2023
Climate
Technology and environment
Compare Rwanda with…
- Rwanda vs Nigeria
- Rwanda vs Ethiopia
- Rwanda vs Congo - Kinshasa
- Rwanda vs Tanzania
- Rwanda vs South Africa
- Rwanda vs Kenya
- Rwanda vs Sudan
- Rwanda vs Uganda
- Rwanda vs Angola
- Rwanda vs Mozambique
- Rwanda vs Ghana
- Rwanda vs Madagascar
- Rwanda vs Côte d’Ivoire
- Rwanda vs Cameroon
- Rwanda vs Niger
- Rwanda vs Mali
- Rwanda vs Burkina Faso
- Rwanda vs Malawi
- Rwanda vs Zambia
- Rwanda vs Chad
- Rwanda vs Somalia
- Rwanda vs Senegal
- Rwanda vs Zimbabwe
- Rwanda vs Guinea
- Rwanda vs Benin
- Rwanda vs Burundi
- Rwanda vs South Sudan
Good to know
- Sources: UN, Gapminder and UN IGME, IHME, World Bank, IMF, UNESCO, Our World in Data, V-Dem, UCDP, SIPRI, IISS, Correlates of War, ERA5, CMIP6, EDGAR, ITU and FAO. Each measure’s page names its own and what it counts.
- Values are drawn on today’s borders. Years without a published value are left empty, never filled in.
- 2 measures are climate model output, marked as modelled: not measurements.
How the layers work, where their data comes from and what they can’t tell you: Countries through time