World population/Rwanda
Africa
Population of Rwanda
14,889,701
Growing by 0.01 people every second
#77
world rank
0.18%
of world population
+2.18%
yearly change
+324,630
people this year
409,278
births a year
86,680
deaths a year
How the figure for Rwanda is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Rwanda at 14,889,701 on 1 July 2026, and projects 15,214,331 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.01 people added every second.
That places Rwanda at number 77 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.18 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 58 entries in Africa.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 409,278 births and 86,680 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.
Other countries in Africa
Ranked by population.