Stepping Up Investments in Human Capital Development to Unleash Rwanda’s Demographic Dividend
20 October 2017
This policy brief highlights the policy and programme options that Rwanda can adopt to enhance human capital development to optimise its chances of harnessing the demographic dividend. It is derived from the Rwanda DD study, which showed that the age structure that would result from a decline in birth rates from the current level of 4.2 births per woman to 2.3 births by 2050 would propel the country to graduate to middle-income status with per capita GDP of US$ 4,014 by 2035 and to high-income status with per capita GDP of US$ 12,555 by 2050.
Stepping Up Investments in Human Capital Development to Unleash Rwanda’s Demographic Dividend