Infant Mortality Rate (IMR), Child Mortality Rate (CMR), Under-Five Mortality Rate (U5MR), Crude Death Rate (CDR), and life expectancy at birth/age 20/age 60 (e0/e20/e60), drawn from Rwanda's Population and Housing Census. Sources are the RPHC4 (2012, RPHC_2012_Theme 05_Mortality.xls, 75 KB) and RPHC5 (2022, Mortality_Thematic Report.xls, 102.5 KB) Mortality Thematic Reports, both legacy BIFF8 Excel files (xlrd), direct static downloads from the NISR portal. The RPHC5 file's evolution table (Table 15) publishes IMR/CMR/U5MR for all five census rounds (1978, 1991, 2002, 2012, 2022) side by side. CDR and life expectancy have no historical evolution table, so both files are read for their respective census years (2012, 2022). All indicators are national only -- no province or district breakdown exists for mortality in either census edition.
| COLUMN | TYPE | DESCRIPTION | UNIT |
|---|---|---|---|
| census_year | int64 | Census reference year. 1978, 1991, 2002, 2012, and 2022 for imr/cmr/u5mr; 2012 and 2022 only for cdr and life_expectancy. | - |
| geography | string | Geographic unit name. Always "Rwanda" -- no subnational breakdown. | - |
| geography_level | string | Geographic level. Always "national". | - |
| sex | string | Disaggregation by sex -- both_sexes, male, or female. | - |
| topic | string | Indicator topic. Values: imr (Infant Mortality Rate), cmr (Child Mortality Rate), u5mr (Under-Five Mortality Rate), cdr (Crude Death Rate), life_expectancy (life expectancy at birth/20/60). | - |
| category | string | Populated only for topic=life_expectancy, giving the age at which life expectancy is measured (e0, e20, e60). Null for all other topics. | - |
| value | float64 | Indicator value, scale depends on unit. imr/cmr/u5mr/cdr: rate per 1,000. life_expectancy: years remaining at the given age. | - |
| unit | string | Unit of the value column. Values: per_mille (imr, cmr, u5mr, cdr), years (life_expectancy). | - |