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:
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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:“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.” “I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.” “The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.” |