In Eritrea, even population breakdown by ethnicity or religion or other parameters is regarded as confidential, here are some population figures:
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في عام 1908 كان عدد السكان في اريتريا 274,944 من المواطنين و 2930 من الاروبيين. في عام 1910 كان يقدر ثلثي السكان على أنهم. مسلمين .سكان المناطق الريفية في الهضبة الجنوبية، كانو 23,000 في عام 1910، اما في عام 1948 وصل العدد الي 400،000 . وقد كان هذا الرتفاع المفاجئ نتيجة مهاجرين من تقراي الذين قدمولقلة الايادي العاملة في الريف الارتري بالمرتفعات نتيجة التجنيد الاجباري من قبل الايطاليين والهجرة الي المدن،
In 1908 there was a population of
274,944 natives and 2,930 whites. As far as the natives were concerned,
however, these figures were only approximate and did not include all the
Danakils on the Italian side of the frontier. There may be supposed to have been
between 300,000 and 335,000 in 1914.
Among the native populations of Eritrea
Mohammedanism possesses a persistent force of expansion; in 1910 two-thirds of
the inhabitants were described as belonging to that faith. Since the Italian
occupation, some Abyssinian Mohammedans, who had been forced by the intolerance
of the Negus to embrace the Coptic religion, have reverted to their former
faith. In the highlands near the Abyssinian frontier – at Serae, Akkele, and
Guzai-the majority of the population are Christian Copts (Monophysites); and a
body of Catholic converts, numbering about 6,000, who were formerly under the
French Lazarists (expelled in 1895), have been placed under the direction of
the Apostolic Prefecture of Eritrea, which was created in September 1894. A
small settlement of Swedish missionaries has control over about 500
Evangelical converts. A few tribes still retain a primitive animistic form of
religion. On the whole, Italian authorities are agreed that Mohammedanism is
making rapid progress in Eritrea.
http://assenna.com/e-r-i-t-r-e-a-handbook-prepared-under-the-direction-of-the-historical-section-of-the-foreign-office/
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The rural population of the Southern Plateau, which was
23,000 in 1910, is 400,000 in 1948. The apparent paradox has risen because
landless groups, often immigrants from Ethiopia, were sometimes accepted by
villages communities to make good the loss of manpower caused by military
conscription and exodus to the towns. Immigration from Ethiopia to the rural areas of
the Eritrean highlands had increased during the war: the immigrants belonged by
faith to the Coptic Church and spoke basically the same language as the people
of the Kebessa. By and large these immigrants – the makelai-aliet- were
at the bottom of the rural class structure.
Gray and
Silverman (1948) quoted in Jordan Gebre-Medhin’s book, ‘Peasants & Nationalism
in Eritrea’, p. 76
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Eritrea Population Breakdown based on voter records 1992, processed by the Central Statistics Office
Eritrean population 1952 and 1997 breakdown by the 6 socially engineered regions posted by Awate.com You can click at the bottom to see the population of each region.
http://web.archive.org/web/20060630203303/http:/www.awate.com/explore/explore.htm
Eritrean Population 2001 (the socially engineered regions) : http://gis.calvin.edu/atlas/countries/eritrea/People/pop.pdf
Eritrean population 1960 - 2013: http://countryeconomy.com/demography/population/eritrea
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