10%: 4.2%
highest 10%: 24.2% (1985)

Distribution of family income - Gini index:
28.9 (1985)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
7.5% (2003 est.)

Labor force:
4.6 million (2000)

Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture 90%

Unemployment rate:
NA

Budget:
revenues: $365.9 million
expenditures: $402.9 million, including capital expenditures of $NA
(2003 est.)

Agriculture - products:
coffee, tea, pyrethrum (insecticide made from chrysanthemums),
bananas, beans, sorghum, potatoes; livestock

Industries:
cement, agricultural products, small-scale beverages, soap,
furniture, shoes, plastic goods, textiles, cigarettes

Industrial production growth rate:
7% (2001 est.)

Electricity - production:
96.78 million kWh (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
140 million kWh (2001)

Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2001)

Electricity - imports:
50 million kWh (2001)

Oil - production:
0 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - consumption:
5,300 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - exports:
NA (2001)

Oil - imports:
NA (2001)

Oil - proved reserves:
0 bbl (1 January 2002)

Natural gas - proved reserves:
28.32 billion cu m (1 January 2002)

Current account balance:
$-163 million (2003)

Exports:
$73.33 million f.o.b. (2003 est.)

Exports - commodities:
coffee, tea, hides, tin ore

Exports - partners:
Indonesia 39.2%, Germany 4.6%, China 3.9% (2003)

Imports:
$245.8 million f.o.b. (2003 est.)

Imports - commodities:
foodstuffs, machinery and equipment, steel, petroleum products,
cement and construction material

Imports - partners:
Kenya 23.3%, Germany 7.5%, Belgium 6.4%, Uganda 6.4%, France 5%
(2003)

Reserves of foreign exchange & gold:
$215 million (2003)

Debt - external:
$1.3 billion (2000 est.)

Economic aid - recipient:
$372.9 million (1999)

Currency:
Rwandan franc (RWF)

Currency code:
RWF

Exchange rates:
Rwandan francs per US dollar - 537.658 (2003), 476.327 (2002),
442.801 (2001), 389.696 (2000), 333.942 (1999)

Fiscal year:
calendar year

Communications Rwanda

Telephones - main lines in use:
23,200 (2002)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
134,000
note: Rwanda has mobile cellular service between Kigali and several
prefecture capitals (2003)

Telephone system:
general assessment: telephone system primarily serves business and
government
domestic: the capital, Kigali, is connect