Rwanda
Republic of Rwanda
- Capital
- Kigali
- Region
- Eastern Africa
- Population, 2025
- 15 million
- Currency
- RWF
- Area
- 26,338 km²
Across Rwanda's 7 priced cities, one person needs about $1,049 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $277.
Livability
The same seven domains as for cities, scored at country level; safety falls back to the homicide rate where Numbeo has no survey.
- Purchasing power25%22
- Safety20%74
- Health care15%No data
- Climate10%No data
- Air quality10%70
- Connectivity10%16
- Cost10%71
How each domain is scored
- Purchasing power, 25%
- What a local net salary buys against local prices, as a percentile.
- Safety, 20%
- Numbeo safety index for the city, or for its country when the city has no survey.
- Health care, 15%
- Numbeo health care index, city first, then country.
- Climate, 10%
- Numbeo climate index where surveyed, otherwise a comfort score from NASA climate normals.
- Air quality, 10%
- 30-day mean US AQI on a 0-100 scale: 100 at AQI 25 or cleaner, 0 at 150 or worse.
- Connectivity, 10%
- Percentile of median fixed broadband download speed, city first, then country.
- Cost, 10%
- Cheaper places score higher: the percentile of the cost-of-living plus rent index, inverted.
What it costs
Averages over the country’s cities, weighted by population. New York = 100.
Economy
World Bank development indicators; each figure is the latest year with data.
Taxes
Headline rates side by side from three references, with the source of each.
- Top income tax rate
- 30%
- SourcePwC
- Lowest income tax rate
- 0%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 28%
- SourcePwC
- VAT or sales tax
- 18%
- SourcePwC
- Capital gains, individuals
- 10%
- SourcePwC
- Social security, employee
- 6%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Social security, employer
- 8%
- SourceTrading Economics
Headline statutory rates as of Sep 2026; brackets, allowances and regional taxes change what a given person pays.
Safety and internet
Numbeo’s crime survey, the World Bank homicide series and the Speedtest Global Index.
Safety
- Safety indexNumbeo, higher is safer
- 73.6
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 26.4
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2020
- 3.6
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #126 worldwide
- 40
- Mobile downloadMbps, median
- —
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- 0%
Cities in Rwanda
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Ruhengeri | 68 | 25.7 | — | — | — | 153.4K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 2Gisenyi | 68 | 24.3 | $289 | — | — | 172.4K | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 3Nyagatare | 63 | — | — | — | — | 100K | Low confidence |
| 4Butare | 59 | 24.8 | — | — | — | 62.8K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 5Kibuye | 59 | 25.8 | — | — | — | 48K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 6Byumba | 59 | 25.8 | — | — | — | 43.1K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 7Kigali | 53 | 25.3 | $670 | $277 | 30.2 | 1.1M | High confidence, 37 contributors |
| 8Nyamata | 49 | 27.6 | $102 | $184 | 40.7 | 21.5K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |