Gedeo zone

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Gedeo is an administrative zone in the region of the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples in Ethiopia . It is named after the Gedeo people who live here .

To the east, south and west, Gedeo is bounded by the Oromia region and to the north by the Sidama zone . In Gedeo are the places Dilla and Yirgacheffe .

The Central Statistical Agency (CSA), according to 2005 were harvested 63,562 tons of coffee in the zones Sidama and Gedeo a year. This equates to 63% of the yield in the SNNPR and 28% of the total Ethiopian.

population

In 2005 the zone had 820,944 inhabitants, 14.4% of whom lived in cities. The zone covers an area of ​​1,329.39 square kilometers, resulting in a population density of 617.53 people per square kilometer.

In 1994, 81.2% of the population belonged to the Gedeo ethnic group , 8.3% were Oromo , 4.35% Amharen , 2.8% Gurage (including Soddo and Silt'e ) and 1.15% Sidama .

With 81.45% speakers, Gedeo was the most widespread mother tongue, followed by Oromo with 7.8% and Amharic with 7.6%.

According to a memorandum from the World Bank , 11% of Gedeo residents have access to electricity. The road density is 231.7 km per 1000 square kilometers; a typical rural family owns 0.3 hectares of land (compared to the national mean of 1.01 hectares and a value of 0.89 hectares for the SNNPR) and the equivalent of 0.2 head of cattle. 19.6% of the population does not work in agriculture, compared to 25% for the whole country and 32% in the region. 65% of eligible children attend primary school and 17% go to secondary schools. In 40% of the zone there is a risk of infection with malaria , 37% of the zone is exposed to the tsetse fly .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CSA 2005 National Statistics; SECTIONE D. AGRICULTURE ( Memento of February 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), Table D.2;
  2. ↑ CSA 2005 National Statistics, Tables B.3 and B.4
  3. ↑ a b CSA: 1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia: Results for Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region, Vol. 1: Part 1, 1996 (pp. 124f., 168)
  4. ↑ Comparative national and regional figures are taken from another World Bank publication, Klaus Deininger et al. "Tenure Security and Land Related Investment", WP-2991 ( Memento of March 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on March 23, 2006).
  5. ↑ World Bank, Four Ethiopias: A Regional Characterization (accessed on March 23, 2006; PDF; 2.5 MB).