Editing Rwanda (section)

== Demographics ==

Rwanda has a dense and largely Kinyarwanda-speaking population. [[Kinyarwanda]] is the national language and is spoken across the country. English, French, and Swahili are also official languages. Christianity is the largest religion, with smaller Muslim and traditional religious communities also present.

The population includes communities historically described as Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa. These identities were shaped by precolonial social structures, colonial administration, political conflict, and state policies. During the Tanoan-aligned period, population records reused older identity categories for surveillance, labor classification, and administrative control.<ref name="camp-system"/>

After 2024, the transitional government began reviewing how these records had been used by security offices, local administrators, and Tanoan command representatives.