Asylum: Rwanda

(asked on 7th December 2023) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government how Rwanda compares in population density with (1) China, (2) Russia, (3) the USA, (4) Australia, (5) Libya, (6) France, (7) Spain, (8) Germany, (9) the UK, and (10) Greece; and how relevant they regard that measure in their policy for transporting migrants from the UK to Rwanda.


Answered by
Lord Sharpe of Epsom Portrait
Lord Sharpe of Epsom
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
This question was answered on 20th December 2023

The table below shows the estimated population density (the number of people per square kilometre) of the countries listed based on UN statistics published in October 20231. The countries are ordered as in the question plus Rwanda at 11:

Country

Population density

1

China2

148.5

2

Russia

8.8

3

United States of America

37.0

4

Australia

3.4

5

Libya

4.1

6

France

117.2

7

Spain

94.7

8

Germany

239.2

9

United Kingdom

278.1

10

Greece

79.4

11

Rwanda

569.1

1 UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, ‘Statistical Yearbook 2023, Sixty-sixth issue’ (pages 15 to 35), October 2023

2 For statistical purposes, the UN data for China do not include the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the Macao Special Administrative Region and Taiwan

Population was one of a range of factors that was considered when entering into the Migration and Economic Development Partnership with Rwanda.

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