Refugees amounts to 107,300 representing around 1% of the total resident population. In the provinces and districts hosting refugees’ camps, the refugees' share is relatively higher.
For instance, in the Eastern Province refugees represent 1.9% of the total population of the province and in all other provinces it is below 0.6%.
By Districts, refugees' share is highest in the districts of Kirehe (11.7% of the district population), Karongi (3.5%), Nyamagabe (2.6%), Gisagara (2.2%) and Gatsibo (1.9%).
TABLE:Distribution (%) of the refugees resident population by nationality by Province
| Nationality | Province | |||||
| Kigali City | Southern | Western | Northern | Eastern | ||
| Total | 5,083 | 19,055 | 14,975 | 894 | 67,293 | |
| Rwanda | 1,592 | 5,439 | 3,676 | 447 | 14,323 | |
| Burundi | 2,483 | 283 | 75 | 52 | 29,891 | |
| Tanzania | 1 | 9 | 10 | 26 | ||
| Kenya | 5 | 1 | ||||
| Uganda | 4 | 2 | 3 | 17 | ||
| DRC | 963 | 13,304 | 11,206 | 395 | 22,543 | |
| Other African | 29 | 17 | 5 | 491 | ||
| Europe | 1 | |||||
| America | 1 | |||||
| Asia | 5 | 1 | ||||
On the other hand, among the total refugees’ population, the Eastern Province have about 62.7% of the total refugees, followed by South with 17.8%, West with 14%, North with nearly 1% and the city of Kigali with 4.7% of the total refugees in the country.
Kirehe District hosting Mahama refugees Camp represents a half of the total refugees living in Rwanda (50.4%), followed by Karongi hosting Kiziba refugees camp with 12.3%, Gatsibo hosting Nyabiheke refugees camp (9.8%), Nyamagabe hosting Kigeme refugees camp (9%), Gisagara hosting Mugombwa refugees camp (8.1%), Bugesera (1.6%) but also in urban districts like Gasabo (2.1%) and Kicukiro (1.8%).