{"id":54572,"date":"2025-06-19T18:23:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T18:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/pm-ngirente-rwanda-economic-gains-reached-both-urban-and-rural-populations\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T17:40:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T17:40:45","slug":"pm-ngirente-rwanda-economic-gains-reached-both-urban-and-rural-populations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/pm-ngirente-rwanda-economic-gains-reached-both-urban-and-rural-populations\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Ngirente: Rwanda economic gains reached both urban and rural populations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Government projections show that Rwanda\u2019s economy is expected to grow by 7.1% in 2025, 7.5% in 2026, 7.4% in 2027, and 7% in 2028.<\/p>\n

Presenting a report on the Government\u2019s achievements in improving citizens\u2019 welfare before both chambers of Parliament on June 19, 2025, Dr. Ngirente emphasised that this sustained economic growth has been inclusive.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome wondered whether the economic growth we\u2019ve seen was truly inclusive. We have found that it is. The growth has been shared\u2014many people have benefited from it. The positive effects of economic development have reached Rwandans across all regions\u2014urban and rural\u2014and across all age groups, both young and old,” he said.<\/p>\n

According to the Seventh Integrated Household Living Conditions Survey (EICV7) conducted over 12 months in 2024, Rwanda\u2019s poverty rate dropped from 39.8% in 2017 to 27.4% in 2024. Extreme poverty fell from 11.3% in 2017 to 5.4% in 2024.<\/p>\n

In 2000, the average annual income per Rwandan was $268, which rose to $1,029 by 2024.<\/p>\n

EICV7 also shows that 1.5 million Rwandans moved out of poverty in the past seven years, a 12.4% decline in poverty levels.<\/p>\n

The National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR) estimates that a Rwandan needs at least 560,127 Rwandan francs per year to meet essential needs, including food and other basic necessities.<\/p>\n

The Government attributes this poverty reduction to a range of social protection programs, such as Girinka (One Cow per Poor Family), Vision 2020 Umurenge Programme (VUP), direct support to vulnerable households, and health insurance coverage for the poor.<\/p>\n

Currently, Rwanda has over 1.6 million cows, with more than 452,000 distributed through the Girinka program.<\/p>\n

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Prime Minister Dr. Edouard Ngirente has stated that the country\u2019s consistent economic growth, averaging over 7% over the past seven years, has positively impacted the well-being of all Rwandans, whether in urban or rural areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000089408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-54572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000089408,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2025-06-19_at_15.25_41_2cc7dac1-e12c7.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2025-06-19_at_15.25_41_2cc7dac1-e12c7.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2025-06-19_at_15.25_41_2cc7dac1-e12c7.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2025-06-19_at_15.25_41_2cc7dac1-e12c7.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2025-06-19_at_15.25_41_2cc7dac1-e12c7.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2025-06-19_at_15.25_41_2cc7dac1-e12c7.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000089408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54572"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=54572"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=54572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}