Jimma Rare
Jimma Rare is a
Guder River which separates it from the West Shewa Zone. The administrative center of the woreda is Wayu; other towns in Jimma Rare include Goben
and Babal'a.
Overview
The altitude of this woreda ranges from 1540 to 3047 meters above sea level;
rape seed are important cash crops.[2]
Industry in the woreda includes 10
grain mills. There were 10 Farmers Associations with 6300 members and 4 Farmers Service Cooperatives with 5145 members. Jimma Rare has 35 kilometers of all-weather road, for an average of road density of 102.6 kilometers per 1000 square kilometers. About 12% of the total population has access to drinking water.[2]
Demographics
The 2007 national census reported a total population for this woreda of 55,580, of whom 27,392 were men and 28,188 were women; 8,633 or 15.53% of its population were urban dwellers. The majority of the inhabitants were
Based on figures published by the
Central Statistical Agency in 2005, this woreda has an estimated total population of 56,758, of whom 29,238 are men and 27,520 women; 6,197 or 10.92% of its population are urban dwellers, which is greater than the Zone average of 13.9%. With an estimated area of 340.78 square kilometers, Jimma Rare has an estimated population density of 166.6 people per square kilometer, which is greater than the Zone average of 81.4.[4]
The 1994 national census reported a total population for this woreda of 40,270, of whom 19,618 were men and 20,652 women; 3,474 or 8.63% of its population were urban dwellers at the time. The two largest ethnic groups reported in Jimma Rare were the
Notes
- ^ E. Cerulli, "The folk-literature of the Galla of Southern Abyssinia", Harvard African Studies, 3 (1922), p. 38
- ^ a b Socio-economic profile of the East Wellega Zone Government of Oromia Region (last accessed 1 August 2006)
- ^ 2007 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia: Results for Oromia Region, Vol. 1 Archived 2011-11-13 at the Wayback Machine, Tables 2.1, 2.5, 3.4 (accessed 13 January 2012)
- ^ CSA 2005 National Statistics Archived 2006-11-23 at the Wayback Machine, Tables B.3 and B.4
- ^ 1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia: Results for Oromia Region, Vol. 1, part 1 Archived 2009-11-15 at the Wayback Machine, Tables 2.1, 2.13, 2.16, 2.20 (accessed 6 April 2009)
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