Population
Kira Town is the largest municipality in Uganda, by population. The town is the second-largest urban center in the country, after Kampala, the national capital, and the largest metropolitan area in the country. The last national census in 2002 estimated Kira’s population to be 140,774 people, of whom 67,222 (47.8%) were males and 73,548 (52.2%) were females. The 2002 census gave the following figures for each of the six wards:
| 2002 Kira Town Population Census | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In 2011, the Uganda Bureau of Statitistics (UBOS) estimated the population of the town had increased to about 179,800. In 2012, the Kira Town planner estimated the town's population at 300,000 and growing. Read more about this topic: Kira Town Famous quotes containing the word population:“It was a time of madness, the sort of mad-hysteria that always presages war. There seems to be nothing left but war—when any population in any sort of a nation gets violently angry, civilization falls down and religion forsakes its hold on the consciences of human kind in such times of public madness.” “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.” “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.” |