The Stam and Davenport figures relied on a 1991 census that, they claim, calculates that there were approximately 600,000 Tutsi in the country when the killing started. The 1991 government population statistics, therefore, show a pre-genocide figure for Tutsi of 8.4 per cent of the population. A more widely agreed figure is 14 per cent, confirmed in the 1992 Europa World Year Book and in an article in the Africa South of the Sahara 1994: Regional Surveys of the World, by the Belgian academic Filip Reyntjens.
