Country comparison: France / Rwanda

This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for France and Rwanda. There, we provide many explanations and details per country that go far beyond this comparison.

General information

	France	Rwanda
Region:	Western Europe	Eastern Africa
Area:	549,087 km²	26,340 km²
National language:	French	Kinyarwanda
Government form:	Semi-presidential republic	Presidential republic
Independent since:	843 AD	1962 AD
Capital:	Paris	Kigali

Population

Details for France and Rwanda

	France	Rwanda
Population:	67,750,000	13,462,000
Inhabitants/km²:	123.4	511.1
Life expectancy males:	Ø 79 years	Ø 64 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 85 years	Ø 69 years
Average age:	Ø 41.7 years	Ø 19.7 years
Birth rate:	10.90 ‰	30.31 ‰
Death rate:	9.90 ‰	6.00 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.06 ‰	-3.21 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
See also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life

	France	Rwanda
Political stability:	74	70
Civil rights:	85	48
Health:	92	21
Climate:	41	61
Cost of Living:	30	58
Popularity:	71	36

Economy

Details for France and Rwanda

	France	Rwanda
Currency:	euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	Rwandan franc (1 RWF =100 Centimes)
Unemployment rate:	8.1 %	1.6 %
Inflation rate:	1.64 %	-0.39 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	96.23 %	29.86 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	60.70 %	33.20 %
Average income:	44,160 US$	840 US$
Corruption index:	28 (good)	49 (moderate)

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	RWA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	2,957,880 M US$	43.66 M US$	11,070 M US$	0.82 M US$
Gross national product:	2,991,553 M US$	44.16 M US$	11,258 M US$	0.84 M US$
Exported goods:	920,864 M US$	13.59 M US$	2,110 M US$	0.16 M US$
Imported goods:	957,717 M US$	14.14 M US$	3,856 M US$	0.29 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for France and Rwanda

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	RWA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	1,053,215 km	15.55 km	4,700 km	0.35 km
Passenger airports:	61	0.0009	2	0.0001

Energy balance

Details for France and Rwanda

	FRA: total	per 1000 inh.	RWA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	450.80 bn kWh	6.65 m kWh	527.30 m kWh	39,169.84 kWh
Energy production:	529.10 bn kWh	7.81 m kWh	525.00 m kWh	38,998.99 kWh
Energy export:	61.41 bn kWh	906,425.59 kWh	4.00 m kWh	297.14 kWh
Energy imports:	19.90 bn kWh	293,728.53 kWh	42.00 m kWh	3,119.92 kWh
CO2 emissions:	300.52 m t	4,435.74 t	1.33 m t	98.80 t

Telecommunication

Details for France and Rwanda

	France	Rwanda
International dialing:	+33	+250
Internet domain:	.fr	.rw

	FRA total	FRA per 1000 inh.	RWA total	RWA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	37,759,000	557	11,893	1
Mobile cellulars:	72,751,000	1074	10,902,989	810
Internet server:	17,266,000	255	1,447	0
Internet users:	58,329,375	861	3,203,929	238
Broadband Internet:	30,627,000	452	31,902	2

Healthcare system

Details for France and Rwanda

	France	Rwanda
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	5.91	1.60
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.23	0.13
Diabetes:	4.8 %	5.1 %
HIV:	0.17 %	0.52 %
Tuberculosis:	0.08 ‰	0.56 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	37.0 %	89.0 %
Smokers:	33.4 %	13.7 %

Climate

We also provide a more detailed climate comparison of both countries.
The data for each country can be found here: France and Rwanda

	France	Rwanda
Daytime temperatures:	16.9 °C	26.6 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	7.9 °C	16.1 °C
Rel. humidity:	78 %	74 %
Rain days:	8.9	10.9
Sunshine hours per day:	5.5	5.3

Native languages

	France	Rwanda
French:	93.6 %	0.1 %
Kinyarwanda:	n/a	93.2 %
Arabic:	2.5 %	n/a
Portuguese:	1.2 %	n/a
Italian:	0.4 %	n/a
Spanish:	0.4 %	n/a
Turkish:	0.4 %	n/a
English:	n/a	0.1 %
other:	1.5 %	6.6 %

Religions

	France	Rwanda
Christianity:	64.0 %	93.4 %
Nondenominational:	24.0 %	3.6 %
Islam:	8.0 %	1.8 %
Jewry:	0.7 %	n/a
Buddhism:	0.6 %	n/a
Animism:	n/a	0.1 %
other:	2.7 %	1.1 %

Data inventory and updates

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