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Barriers to development in Rwanda

GDP per capita at PPP
●​ 1,221 in 2002.
●​ 3.060.03 in 2023.
●​ Structure: agriculture
○​ 2002 → 41.6%
○​ 2025 → 27%

GNI per capita at PPP:
●​ 2002 → 1,210 PPP $
●​ 2023 → 3,330 PPP $

Exports of goods and services:
●​ 2002 → $ 140 million
●​ 2023 → $ 541.1 million

Imports of goods and services:
●​ 2002 → $ 435 million
●​ 2023 → $ 5,783 million

Education (public spending):
●​ 2002 → 2.8% of GDP
●​ 2024 → 4.9% of GDP

Life expectancy
●​ 2002 → 39.8
●​ 2025 → 67.13

Rwanda ranks 127th in the IHDI
●​ IHDI: 0.377
●​ HDI: 0,548
●​ Overall percentage loss due to inequality: 31.2%
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_inequality-adjusted_Human_Development
_Index

Public debt levels: over 73% of GDP in 2023.
https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/rwanda/overview#:~:text=High%20public%20debt%20
levels%20(over,high%2Dincome%20country%20by%202050. The World Bank.
●​ Vulnerable to climate change.

Population growth: 2.2% annually in 2023.
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.GROW?locations=RW The World Bank.

Poverty:
●​ 52% of the population are below US$2.15 a day (2017 PPP).
●​ 78% of the population are below US$ 3.16 a day.
●​ Over 90% of the poor live in rural areas.