Tuesday 24 July 2012

1.7.5 POPULATION


   
The study area with an area at about 72 square kilometer is one of the most density populated areas in south-Eastern Nigeria. The provisional result, of census showed that the population of Enugu urban was 464,514 (NPC, 1998:35).

The annual growth rate of Enugu according to NPC, (1998) as cited by Umoh (2001) was 3.6%. According to Umoh(2001) the formula for .population projection is given as:

Pt = P0 (I+r) where

Pt = population in year (2006)

P0 = population in year 0 (references population)

r = population growth rate

t = constant

Therefore, using the population growth rate and formula above, the population of Enugu urban area for the year 2006 is projected to 762,141

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