Datasource: Integrated Household Living Conditions Survey (EICV)
Period: October 2023 - October 2024
The protocols for collecting data, and the nature and scope of the questions, were relatively similar from EICV1 (1999/2001) through EICV6. Reflecting the evolving best practice in poverty measurement, a number of important methodological changes were made for EICV7.
The EICV7 aims to provide timely and updated statistics to facilitate monitoring progress on poverty reduction programs and evaluation of different policies as stipulated in the second National Strategy for Transformation (NST2), the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as well as the Vision 2050.
The modelling exercise shows that the poverty rate (using the updated methodology) would have been 39.8% in 2017, and fell to 27.4% in 2024, representing a reduction of 12.4 percentage points over a period of 7 years.
The poverty rate fell substantially in all regions of the country outside Kigali, and probably in Kigali too (but we cannot be 95% confident of this). The regional ranking did not change: poverty is lowest in Kigali city, and highest in the Southern and Western regions.