Population
The district population was estimated at about 220,300 during the 2002 national census. The annual population growth rate in the district was estimated at 2.8%. It is estimated that the population of Kisoro District in 2010 was approximately 274,800. See table below:
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Kisoro District is inhabited by primarily by the Fumbira, comprising Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa tribes. Fumbira dialect, which is similar to Kinyarwanda, is spoken in the district. A section of Kisoro District is inhabited by the Kiga whose dialect is intermediat between Kiga and Fumbira. Ethnicity is not a big issue for the Bafumbira as they freely intermarry, particularly among the Tutsi and Hutu. That relationship between the two ethnicities in Kisoro District partly explains why the 1994 Rwandan genocide did not spread to Kisoro District. There is a general acceptance of these conditions and this has led to harmony in the district. Read more about this topic: Kisoro District Famous quotes containing the word population:“The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.” “This was the Eastham famous of late years for its camp- meetings, held in a grove near by, to which thousands flock from all parts of the Bay. We conjectured that the reason for the perhaps unusual, if not unhealthful development of the religious sentiment here, was the fact that a large portion of the population are women whose husbands and sons are either abroad on the sea, or else drowned, and there is nobody but they and the ministers left behind.” “The population question is the real riddle of the sphinx, to which no political Oedipus has as yet found the answer. In view of the ravages of the terrible monster over-multiplication, all other riddle sink into insignificance.” |