GDP: purchasing power parity - $5.9 billion (1999 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 5.3% (1999 est.)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $720 (1999 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
44%
industry:
20%
services:
36% (1998 est.)
Population below poverty line: 51.2% (1993 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
4.2%
highest 10%:
24.2% (1983-85)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 10% (1998)
Labor force: 3.6 million
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture 90%, government and services, industry and commerce
Unemployment rate: NA%
Budget:
revenues:
$202 million
expenditures:
$361 million, including capital expenditures of $NA (1998 est.)
Industries: cement, agricultural products, small-scale beverages, soap, furniture, shoes, plastic goods, textiles, cigarettes
Industrial production growth rate: 8.7% (1998 est.)
Electricity - production: 159 million kWh (1998)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
2.52%
hydro:
97.48%
nuclear:
0%
other:
0% (1998)
Electricity - consumption: 165 million kWh (1998)
Electricity - exports: 3 million kWh (1998)
Electricity - imports: 20 million kWh (1998)
Agriculture - products: coffee, tea, pyrethrum (insecticide made from chrysanthemums), bananas, beans, sorghum, potatoes; livestock
Exports: $70.8 million (f.o.b., 1999 est.)
Exports - commodities: coffee, tea, hides, tin ore
Exports - partners: Brazil, Germany, Belgium, Pakistan, Spain, Kenya
Imports: $242 million (f.o.b., 1999 est.)
Imports - commodities: foodstuffs, machinery and equipment, steel, petroleum products, cement and construction material
Imports - partners: Kenya, Tanzania, US, Benelux, France
Debt - external: $1.2 billion (1998)
Economic aid - recipient: $591.5 million (1997); note - in the summer of 1998, Rwanda presented its policy objectives and development priorities to donor governments resulting in multiyear pledges in the amount of $250 million
Currency: 1 Rwandan franc (RF) = 100 centimes
Exchange rates: Rwandan francs (RF) per US$1 - 349.53 (January 2000), 333.94 (1999) 312.31 (1998), 301.53 (1997), 306.82 (1996), 262.20 (1995)
Fiscal year: calendar year