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Country
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Leader
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President: Manuel Pinto da Costa
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President: Paul Kagame
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Population
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186,817
| 12,012,589
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Life Expectancy
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63.860 years
| 58.850 years
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Capital City
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Largest city
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| Sao Tome (population: 53,300) | Kigali (population: 745,261) |
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Human Development Index
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0.643
| 0.435
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| GDP per capita |
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Literacy Rate
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84.9%
| 70.4%
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Corruption Perception Index
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2.7
| 3
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Percentage of Women in Parliament
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1.8%
| 50.9%
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Death Penalty
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Abolished
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Political System
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republic
| republic; presidential, multiparty system
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Independence date
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| Religions |
Catholic 70.3%, Evangelical 3.4%, New Apostolic 2%, Adventist 1.8%, other 3.1%, none 19.4% (2001 census)
| Roman Catholic 56.5%, Protestant 26%, Adventist 11.1%, Muslim 4.6%, indigenous beliefs 0.1%, none 1.7% (2001)
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| Languages |
Portuguese (official)
| Kinyarwanda (official) universal Bantu vernacular, French (official), English (official), Kiswahili (Swahili) used in commercial centers
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| Location |
Western Africa, islands in the Gulf of Guinea, straddling the Equator, west of Gabon
| Central Africa, east of Democratic Republic of the Congo
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| Area |
964 km sq
| 26,338 km sq
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| Coastline |
209 km
| 0 km
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| Climate |
tropical; hot, humid; one rainy season (October to May)
| temperate; two rainy seasons (February to April, November to January); mild in mountains with frost and snow possible
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