Population
The national census in 2002 estimated the population of the district at about 157,800. The annual population growth rate in Kotido District was 3.3%. It is estimated that in 2010, the population of Kotido District was approximately 203,900. See table below:
| Kotido District Population Trends | ||||||||||||||||||||
Read more about this topic: Kotido District Famous quotes containing the word population:“We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.” “A multitude of little superfluous precautions engender here a population of deputies and sub-officials, each of whom acquits himself with an air of importance and a rigorous precision, which seemed to say, though everything is done with much silence, “Make way, I am one of the members of the grand machine of state.”” “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.” |