Population
In 2002 the district had a population of about 405,900 inhabitants, according to the national census. The annual population growth rate of the district was estimated at 3%. It is estimated that the population of the district in 2010 was approximately 514,200. See table below:
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Kibaale District is socially heterogeneous, with more than thirty two (32) registered ethnic groups, but only half of the population are Banyoro, and the remainder are of Ugandan immigrant origin. About 60% of the population are Catholics, 30% belong to the Church of Uganda, and 3% are registered as Muslims. The district, like most of Western Uganda, is a predominantly rural area, with an average population density of around 145 persons per km². Only about 1% of the inhabitants live in urban settlements. Kibaale District has the highest fertility rate in Uganda (8.2). Read more about this topic: Kibaale District Famous quotes containing the word population:“The paid wealth which hundreds in the community acquire in trade, or by the incessant expansions of our population and arts, enchants the eyes of all the rest; the luck of one is the hope of thousands, and the bribe acts like the neighborhood of a gold mine to impoverish the farm, the school, the church, the house, and the very body and feature of man.” “[Madness] is the jail we could all end up in. And we know it. And watch our step. For a lifetime. We behave. A fantastic and entire system of social control, by the threat of example as effective over the general population as detention centers in dictatorships, the image of the madhouse floats through every mind for the course of its lifetime.” “America is like one of those old-fashioned six-cylinder truck engines that can be missing two sparkplugs and have a broken flywheel and have a crankshaft that’s 5000 millimeters off fitting properly, and two bad ball-bearings, and still runs. We’re in that kind of situation. We can have substantial parts of the population committing suicide, and still run and look fairly good.” |