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EICV Key Indicator Trends.

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COVERAGE 2005 - 2024

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SOURCE statistics.gov.rw

Two decades of Rwandan living conditions in one table: 33 indicators across five rounds of the Integrated Household Living Conditions Survey, from EICV2 in 2005/06 to EICV7 in 2023/24, covering poverty, demography, education, housing, health and economic activity. Poverty fell from 56.7% to 27.4% and extreme poverty from 35.8% to 5.4%; households with electricity as their main light source went from 4.3% to 68.9%, and health insurance from 43.3% to 85.3%. This is table 0.1 of the EICV7 Main Indicators Report, and it is the only place NISR puts the rounds side by side; the data.gov.rw portal publishes single-round tables only. Two things the table encodes are carried rather than flattened. The EICV5 poverty figures are modelled estimates restated onto the EICV7 basis because a direct comparison "was not possible due to methodological changes", so those rows are marked and the originally published values kept alongside. And EICV6 is absent because the 2019/20 round was interrupted by COVID-19, so the gap between 2015/17 and 2023/24 is a fact about the survey series rather than missing data.

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TWO DECADES OF EICV

Rwanda more than halved poverty in two decades, from 56.7% to 27.4%, and cut extreme poverty from 35.8% to 5.4%.

Headcount poverty and extreme poverty · percent of population · EICV2 2005/06 to EICV7 2023/24

SOURCE: National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda · EICV Key Indicator Trends (irregular) · Updated 2026-08-14

#	survey_round	reference_period	area	indicator	value	unit	basis	original_value
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COLUMN	TYPE	DESCRIPTION	UNIT
survey_round	string	EICV round label: EICV2, EICV3, EICV4, EICV5 or EICV7. EICV6 (2019/20) is absent because the round was interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic and could not provide comprehensive data.	-
reference_period	string	Survey reference period as NISR labels it: 2005/06, 2010/11, 2013/14, 2015/17 or 2023/24.	-
area	string	Thematic block the indicator sits in, as the report groups them: Poverty, Demography, Education, Housing, Health or Economic Activities.	-
indicator	string	The indicator name exactly as the report prints it, with footnote markers stripped. 33 distinct indicators.	-
value	float64	The published figure. Read `unit` before comparing across indicators; most are percentages but the table also carries an index, a household size, two ratios and a duration in minutes.	-
unit	string	percent, index (GINI, 0 to 1), persons (average household size), ratio (per 100) or minutes.	-
basis	string	as-published or modelled. modelled marks the three EICV5 poverty-block figures that NISR restated onto the EICV7 basis using an OLS regression on log consumption per adult equivalent in January 2024 prices with multiple imputation, because methodological changes made a direct EICV5-to-EICV7 comparison impossible. Everything else is the figure the round itself published.	-
original_value	float64	What the round originally published, where a figure was later restated and NISR gave the prior value: 38.2 for poverty and 16.0 for extreme poverty in EICV5. Null everywhere else, including for the EICV5 GINI, which falls inside the restated block but for which no original was published.	-

CITATION · APA 7

imibare contributors. (2026). EICV Key Indicator Trends [Data set]. imibare. v2026-08-14. https://imibare.org/datasets/rw.nisr.eicv-trends.irregular