For the village in Azerbaijan, see Almu, Azerbaijan

Almu, Azerbaijan

Almu is a village and municipality in the Lerik Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 414....

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Almu is a town

Town

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 in western Ethiopia

Ethiopia

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, the largest of three towns located in the Pawe Special Woreda

Pawe special woreda

Pawe is one of the 21 woredas in the Benishangul-Gumuz Region of Ethiopia. Because it is not part of any Zone in Benishangul-Gumuz, it is considered a Special woreda, an administrative subdivision which is similar to an autonomous area. Pawe is bordered on the south and west by Metekel, and on the...

 of the Benishangul-Gumuz Region.

Demographics

Based on data from the Central Statistical Agency

Central Statistical Agency (Ethiopia)

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 (CSA), in 2005 this town had an estimated total population

Population

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 of 3,419 of whom 1,702 were males and 1,717 were females.

The 1994 national census reported its total population was 1,987 of whom 985 were males and 1,002 were females. The five largest ethnic groups reported in Almu were: the Amhara

Amhara people

Amhara are a highland people inhabiting the Northwestern highlands of Ethiopia. Numbering about 19.8 million people, they comprise 26% of the country's population, according to the 2007 national census...

 1457 (73.3%), the Awi

Awi people

The Awi people are an ethnic group in Ethiopia, and are grouped as one of the Agaw people. The Awis live in Agew Awi Zone in Central Gojjam, and have a few communities in the Metekel Zone of the Benishangul-Gumuz Region.- Population :...

 a subgroup of the Agew 258 (13%), Tigrinyan

Tigray-Tigrinya people

Tigray-Tigrinya are an ethnic group who live in the southern, central and northern parts of Eritrea and the northern highlands of Ethiopia's Tigray province. They also live in Ethiopia's former provinces of Begemder and Wollo, which are today mostly part of Amhara Region, though a few regions...

 111 (5.6%), the Oromo

Oromo people

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 65 (3.3%), and the Hadiya 28 (1.4%). Amharic

Amharic language

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 was the first language of 1529 inhabitants (77%), Awngi

Awngi language

The Awngi language, in older publications also called Awiya , is a Central Cushitic language spoken by the Awi people, living in Central Gojjam in northwestern Ethiopia...

 216 (11%), Tigrinyan

Tigray-Tigrinya people

Tigray-Tigrinya are an ethnic group who live in the southern, central and northern parts of Eritrea and the northern highlands of Ethiopia's Tigray province. They also live in Ethiopia's former provinces of Begemder and Wollo, which are today mostly part of Amhara Region, though a few regions...

 107 (5.3%), Oromo

Oromo language

Oromo, also known as Afaan Oromo, Oromiffa, Afan Boran, Afan Orma, and sometimes in other languages by variant spellings of these names , is an Afro-Asiatic language, and the most widely spoken of the Cushitic family. Forms of Oromo are spoken as a first language by more than 25 million Oromo and...

 60 (3%), and Hadiya

Hadiya language

Hadiyya is the Afro-Asiatic language of the Hadiya people of Ethiopia. Most speakers live in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region in the Hadiya Zone around the town Hosaena....

 29 (1.5%). The majority practiced Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, with 1800 of the inhabitants reporting they embraced that belief, 135 were Muslim

Islam in Ethiopia

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, and 49 were Protestant

P'ent'ay

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. The CSA categorized 1,192 of the inhabitants as being part of the labor pool (133 of whom were unemployed), and 449 as not part of it.

Details about the housing in Almu are as follows. Of the 598 housing units in the town, 481 were permanent and 105 improvised (defined by the CSA as a "makeshift shelter or structure built of waste materials") with an average of 3.2 persons per house; 476 sheltered one household, 104 seven sheltered two and 18 three or more households. Concerning water supply and sanitation

Water supply and sanitation in Ethiopia

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, residents of 117 units had running water obtained water from a protected well and 457 obtained it from a shared external tap; 94 had no toilet while 133 had a private flush toilet and 332 used a shared flush toilet. For bathing, 102 reported they had no bathing facilities in their house, 4 had a private bath tub, 125 had a private shower and 363 used shared shower facilities. Lighting for 547 units was by electricity while the lighting in 43 units was furnished by kerosene

Kerosene

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 lanterns. The average rent for housing in Almu was reported to be 22.54 Birr

Ethiopian birr

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a month, more than the average reported for the Region of 14.78 Birr but less than the average reported for the Zone of 36.19 Birr.