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THE REPUBLIC OF RWANDA Thematic Report Population size, structure and distribution i Fourth Population and Housing Census, Rwanda, 2012 Rwanda, Census, and Housing Fourth Population NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STATISTICS OF RWANDA ii THE REPUBLIC OF RWANDA Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda Fourth Population and Housing Census, Rwanda, 2012 Thematic Report Population size, structure and distribution January 2014 iii The Fourth Rwanda Population and Housing Census (2012 RPHC) was implemented by the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR). Field work was conducted from August 16th to 30th, 2012. The funding for the RPHC was provided by the Government of Rwanda, World Bank (WB), the UKAID (Former DFID), European Union (EU), One UN, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and UN Women. Additional information about the 2012 RPHC may be obtained from the NISR: P.O. Box 6139, Kigali, Rwanda; Telephone: (250) 252 571 035 E-mail: [email protected]; Website: http://www.statistics.gov.rw. Recommended citation: National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR), Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning (MINECOFIN) [Rwanda], 2012. Rwanda Fourth Population and Housing Census. Thematic Report: Population size, structure and distribution iv Table of contents Table of contents ..................................................................................................................... v List of tables ............................................................................................................................vii List of abbreviations ................................................................................................................ix Foreword…………………………………………………………………………………………………xi Acknowledgements…………………………………………………………………………………..xiii Executive summary .................................................................................................................xi Chapter 1: Overview of the Fourth Rwanda Population and Housing Census .................... 1 1.1 Context and justification .................................................................................................... 1 1.2 Legal and institutional frameworks .................................................................................... 1 1.3 Census phases ................................................................................................................. 2 Chapter 2: Context and objectives ......................................................................................... 3 2.1 Background ...................................................................................................................... 3 2.2 Objectives ......................................................................................................................... 3 2.3 Definitions and concepts ................................................................................................... 4 Chapter 3: Enumerated and resident population: size, evolution, type of household and spatial distribution ............................................................................................................ 6 3.1 Enumerated population by residence status ..................................................................... 6 3.2 Enumerated population by type of household and residence status.................................. 6 3.3 Evolution of the resident population, 1978–2012 .............................................................. 7 3.4 Resident population by type of household ........................................................................ 7 3.4.1 Private households and their corresponding population ............................................. 8 3.5 Resident population by sex and area of residence ............................................................ 9 3.6 Resident population by provinces an District ...................................................................11 3.7 Population density ...........................................................................................................14 3.7.1 Physical population density .......................................................................................14 3.7.2 Physiological density .................................................................................................16 Chapter 4: Age-sex structure of the population ...................................................................19 4.1 Resident population by five-year age group .....................................................................19 4.2 Pyramids for the urban and rural populations, 2012 .........................................................20 4.3 Sex ratio ..........................................................................................................................21 v 4.4 Mean and median age of population ................................................................................23 4.4.1 Mean and median ages by provinces ........................................................................23 4.4.2 Mean and median ages by district .............................................................................24 4.5 Age dependency ratio ......................................................................................................25 4.6 Age groups of specific significance ..................................................................................27 Chapter 5: Nationality of resident population .......................................................................28 Conclusion ..............................................................................................................................30 References ..............................................................................................................................31 Annex A Census objectives, methodology and data quality assessment ..........................32 Annex B Census questionnaire ...........................................................................................38 B.1 Private households: person record ..................................................................................39 B.2 Private households: household record and mortality record ............................................43 B.3 Institutional households: person record ...........................................................................44 Annex C Glossary of key terms and definitions .................................................................48 Annex D Supplementary tables ...........................................................................................56 Annex E Sector-level tables ...................................................................................................69 vi List of tables Table 1: De Jure and De Facto populations by sex and province .................................................6 Table 2 : Enumerated population by type of household and residence status by sex .....................7 Table 3: Evolution between 1978 and 2012 of the size of the resident population and annual growth rates by sex ........................................................................................................7 Table 4: Resident population by type of household, sex and area of residence..............................8 Table 5: Private households and their corresponding population and household size by area of residence .......................................................................................................................8 Table 6 :Evolution between 1978 and 2012 of the number of private households and Intercensal annual growth rates by area of residence .......................................................................8 Table 7: Resident population by sex and area of residence ...........................................................9 Table 8 : Size and percentage of the population living in urban and in rural areas by Province and District .......................................................................................................................... 10 Table 9: Resident Population by sex and Area of residence, by Province .................................... 11 Table 10: Distribution of the resident Population by Province and by District ............................... 12 Table 11: Size and Percentage of the population living in urban and in rural areas by sex, Province and District .................................................................................................... 13 Table 12: Distribution of sectors by population size interval, and population by sex ..................... 14 Table 13: Population density of Rwanda in 2012 by Province and District .................................... 15 Table 14 : Physiological population density by Province and District ............................................ 17 Table 15: Resident population by sex, age and area of residence ............................................... 19 Table 16 : Sex ratios of the resident population by five-year age group ....................................... 22 Table 17: Mean and median ages of the resident population by sex, province and area of residence ..................................................................................................................... 23 Table 18:Mean and median ages of the resident population by sex, province and district ............ 24