RwandaandUganda

c. 1650 · 9 October 1962

Two sourced records set beside each other — the figures each nation publishes, and the events each chronicle records of the other. Compared, never graded.

Rwanda

c. 1650 — The Kingdom of Rwanda takes shape under the Nyiginya

Dossier →Chronicle →

Uganda

9 October 1962 — Uganda becomes independent of Britain

Dossier →Chronicle →

Shared indicators
42
Domains
9
Crossed events
1
Data through
2026-08-14

The figures, side by side

Each figure is the same observation, with the same source, as on the two dossiers. Every value shows the year it was observed — vintages differ by indicator and nation. A “—” is an absence in the source data, never a zero. Metric names link to the world ranking; values open the figure on its own dossier.

Economy

RWAUGA
  • GDP
    $16 B2025$62 B2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • GDP per capita
    $1,1242025$1,2062025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • GDP growth
    9.4%20256.3%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Inflation
    5.9%20253.6%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Trade openness
    56.7%202550.2%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded

Society

RWAUGA
  • Population
    15 m202551 m2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Life expectancy
    68.0 yrs202468.5 yrs2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Urban population
    30.9%202531.9%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Fertility rate
    3.620244.22024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Governance

RWAUGA

Health

RWAUGA
  • Health spending
    5.1%20234.2%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Physicians
    0.0920220.192022
    Observed 2022 / 2022 · figures compared, never graded
  • Under-5 mortality
    37.7202448.72024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Measles immunisation
    97.0%202490.0%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Safe drinking water
    —18.1%2024
    Observed — / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Education

RWAUGA
  • Adult literacy
    78.8%202277.0%2024
    Observed 2022 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Education spending
    4.6%20242.6%2022
    Observed 2024 / 2022 · figures compared, never graded
  • Primary enrolment
    149.6%2024106.2%2017
    Observed 2024 / 2017 · figures compared, never graded
  • Secondary enrolment
    48.8%202424.1%2007
    Observed 2024 / 2007 · figures compared, never graded
  • Tertiary enrolment
    9.4%20244.6%2014
    Observed 2024 / 2014 · figures compared, never graded

Technology

RWAUGA
  • R&D spending
    0.8%20230.4%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Researchers (per million)
    1332023812023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Internet users
    31.7%20248.9%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Mobile subscriptions
    932024832024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • High-tech exports
    4.8%20221.9%2024
    Observed 2022 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Geography

RWAUGA
  • Land area
    24,670 km²2023200,520 km²2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Forest area
    11.3%202311.0%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Agricultural land
    76.3%202371.9%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • CO₂ per capita (t)
    0.220240.22024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Renewable energy
    79.9%202290.9%2022
    Observed 2022 / 2022 · figures compared, never graded

Resources

RWAUGA
  • Resource rents
    4.0%20217.5%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Oil rents
    0.0%20210.0%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Mineral rents
    0.0%20210.0%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Forest rents
    4.0%20217.5%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Electricity access
    72.0%202455.3%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Military

RWAUGA
  • Military burden
    1.2%20241.9%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Defense spending
    $176 M2024$1.1 B2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Armed forces
    35,000202046,0002020
    Observed 2020 / 2020 · figures compared, never graded

Entangled histories

One event in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

  1. 1 October 1990

    RPF invasion begins the civil war

    The Rwandan Patriotic Front, composed largely of Tutsi exiles from Uganda, invades northern Rwanda, igniting a civil war and intensifying official anti-Tutsi propaganda.

    War & Rupture · from the Rwanda chronicle · Habyarimana, Civil War and Arusha · REFS 2 — Outreach Programme on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda — Historical Background, Massacre of the Tutsi Minority