Total Fertility Rate (TFR), Age-Specific Fertility Rates (ASFR), Crude Birth Rate (CBR), General Fertility Rate (GFR), and mean parity (children ever born to women aged 50+/55+) drawn from Rwanda's Population and Housing Census. Source is Fertility Thematic Report.xlsx (33 KB, 15 sheets), a direct static download from the NISR portal. The RPHC5 (2022) file's comparison tables (4.1a/4.1b, 4.3, 4.6, 4.13) publish both 2012 and 2022 figures side by side, so a single file covers both census rounds -- the RPHC4 (2012) fertility XLS is not needed. TFR, CBR, and GFR are available at national and province level for both years; ASFR is national only; mean parity is national (with urban/rural breakdown) and province level for both years.
| COLUMN | TYPE | DESCRIPTION | UNIT |
|---|---|---|---|
| census_year | int64 | Census reference year (2012 or 2022) | - |
| geography | string | Geographic unit name. Rwanda (national) or one of five provinces (City of Kigali, Southern Province, Western Province, Northern Province, Eastern Province). Province-level rows exist for tfr, cbr, gfr, and mean_parity_50plus/55plus; asfr is national only. | - |
| geography_level | string | Geographic level -- national or province | - |
| area | string | Urban/rural breakdown -- total, urban, or rural. Only mean_parity_50plus and mean_parity_55plus publish a national urban/rural split; all other topics and all province rows are area=total. | - |
| topic | string | Indicator topic. Values: tfr (Total Fertility Rate), asfr (Age-Specific Fertility Rate, by 5-year age group), cbr (Crude Birth Rate), gfr (General Fertility Rate), mean_parity_50plus / mean_parity_55plus (mean children ever born to women aged 50+ / 55+). | - |
| category | string | Populated only for topic=asfr, giving the 5-year maternal age group (15-19, 20-24, 25-29, 30-34, 35-39, 40-44, 45-49). Null for all other topics. | - |
| value | float64 | Indicator value, scale depends on unit. tfr and mean_parity_*: average number of children per woman. asfr: rate on a 0.0-1.0 scale. cbr and gfr: rate per 1,000 (population for cbr, women aged 15-49 for gfr). | - |
| unit | string | Unit of the value column. Values: births_per_woman (tfr, mean_parity_50plus, mean_parity_55plus), rate (asfr, 0.0-1.0 scale), per_mille (cbr, gfr). | - |