Rwanda, the Land of a Thousand Hills, achieved remarkable reconciliation and development after the 1994 genocide. It has become one of Africa's cleanest and most efficiently governed nations.
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These figures are calculated from the data on this page and compared with the other 195 countries Beelad covers.
| Population density | 530 people per km² rank 14 of 196 (highest first); the average across all 196 countries is 60 per km² |
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| Share of world population | 0.172 % world total: 8,091,734,930 (UN, 1 July 2023) |
| Share of Africa | 0.944% of its people, 0.0877% of its land area |
| Area in square miles | 10,169 1 km² = 0.386 sq mi |
| Closest in size | North Macedonia (25,713 km²) |
| Closest in population | Benin (14,111,034 people) |
Rwanda is the only country in our list that uses RWF.