Nov 13, 2024
Rwanda has achieved impressive growth and
poverty reduction over the past two decades. e
share of the population below the national poverty
line fell by more than 20 percentage points from
2001 to 2017, while life expectancy, access to health
care, and educational attainment have improved
sharply. However, while poverty continued to
fall until the eve of the pandemic, the amount of
poverty reduction generated by each percentage
point increase in gross domestic product (GDP)
per capita fell, and the pandemic and a series of
external shocks have likely increased poverty rates
