Naeder Adet is one of the 36 woreda

Woreda

Woreda is an administrative division of Ethiopia , equivalent to a district . Woredas are composed of a number of Kebele, or neighborhood associations, which are the smallest unit of local government in Ethiopia...

s in the Tigray Region

Tigray Region

Tigray Region is the northernmost of the nine ethnic regions of Ethiopia containing the homeland of the Tigray people. It was formerly known as Region 1...

 of Ethiopia

Ethiopia

Ethiopia , officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is the second-most populous nation in Africa, with over 82 million inhabitants, and the tenth-largest by area, occupying 1,100,000 km2...

. Part of the Mehakelegnaw Zone

Mehakelegnaw Zone

Mehakelegnaw is a Zone in the Ethiopian Region of Tigray. Mehakelegnaw is bordered on the east by Misraqawi , on the south by Debubawi , on the west by Mirabawi and on the north by Eritrea...

, Naeder Adet is bordered on the south by the Wari River

Wari River

Wari River is a river of northern Ethiopia and a tributary of the Tekezé River. It rises in the Gar'alta and flows to the southwest into the Tekezé at . Tributaries of the Wari include the Assam, Chemit, Meseuma, and Tsedia rivers...

 which separates it from Kola Tembien

Kola Tembien

Kola Tembien is one of the 36 woredas in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia. It is named in part after the former province of Tembien...

, on the west by Mi'irabawi (Western) Zone

Mi'irabawi Zone

Mi'irabawi is one of four Zones in the Ethiopian Tigray Region. Mi'irabawi is bordered on the east by the Mehakelegnaw Zone, the south by the Amhara Region, the west by Sudan and on the north by Eritrea...

, on the northwest by Tahtay Maychew

Tahtay Maychew

Tahtay Maychew is one of the 36 woredas in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Mehakelegnaw Zone, Tahtay Maychew is bordered on the south by Naeder Adet, on the west by the Mi'irabawi Zone, on the north by Mereb Lehe, and on the east by La'ilay Maychew...

, on the northeast by La'ilay Maychew

La'ilay Maychew

La'ilay Maychew is one of the 36 woredas in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Mehakelegnaw Zone, La'ilay Maychew is bordered on the south by Naeder Adet, on the west by Tahtay Maychew, on the north by Mereb Lehe, and on the east by Adwa...

, and on the east by Werie Lehe

Werie Lehe

Werie Lehe is one of the 36 woredas in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Mehakelegnaw Zone, Werie Lehe is bordered on the south by the Wari River which separates it from Kola Tembien, on the southwest by Naeder Adet, on the west by La'ilay Maychew, on the north by Adwa, on the northeast by...

. The administrative center of this woreda is Semema; other towns in Naeder Adet include Edaga Selus.

Overview

This woreda is named for the two historic districts that were combined to create it, Naeder and Adet. Adet is the western part and Naeder is the eastern. Naeder is mentioned in a fifteenth-century land charter of Emperor Zara Yaqob

Zara Yaqob

Zar'a Ya`qob or Zera Yacob was of Ethiopia , and a member of the Solomonic dynasty...

, and also occasionally over the centuries afterwards.

The Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation announced that it would provide 24-hour electrical service to five towns in Adwa

Adwa (woreda)

Adwa is one of the 36 woredas in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Mehakelegnaw Zone, Adwa is bordered on the south by Werie Lehe, on the west by La'ilay Maychew, on the north by Mereb Lehe, and on the east by Enticho...

, La'ilay Maychew and Naeder Adet, reaching a total of 100,000 new clients in all of the woredas. This new service would begin in June, 2007.

Demographics

Based on the 2007 national census conducted by the Central Statistical Agency

Central Statistical Agency (Ethiopia)

The Central Statistical Agency is an agency of the government of Ethiopia designated to provide all surveys and censuses for that country used to monitor economic and social growth, as well as to act as an official training center in that field. It is part of the Ethiopian Ministry of Finance and...

 of Ethiopia (CSA), this woreda has a total population of 104,966, an increase of 23.57% over the 1994 census, of whom 52,061 are men and 52,905 women; 1,842 or 1.75% are urban inhabitants. With an area of 1,792.92 square kilometers, Naeder Adet has a population density of 58.54, which is greater than the Zone average of 56.29 persons per square kilometer. A total of 23,208 households were counted in this woreda, resulting in an average of 4.52 persons to a household, and 22,478 housing units.

The 1994 national census reported a total population for this woreda of 84,942, of whom 42,015 were men and 42,927 were women; 1,125 or 1.32% of its population were urban dwellers. The largest ethnic group reported in Naeder Adet was the Tigrayan

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...

 (99.95%). Tigrinya

Tigrinya language

Tigrinya , also spelled Tigrigna, Tigrnia, Tigrina, Tigriña, less commonly Tigrinian, Tigrinyan, is a Semitic language spoken by the Tigrinya people in central Eritrea , where it is one of the two main languages of Eritrea, and in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia , where it...

 was spoken as a first language by 99.97%. 98.3% of the population practiced Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, and 1.54% were Muslim

Islam in Ethiopia

According to the latest 2007 national census, Islam is the second most widely practised religion in Ethiopia after Christianity, with over 25 million of Ethiopians adhering to Islam according to the 2007 national census, having arrived in Ethiopia in 615...

. Concerning education

Education in Ethiopia

Education in Ethiopia has been dominated by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church for many centuries until secular education was adopted in the early 1900s. Prior to 1974, Ethiopia had an estimated illiteracy rate well above 90% and compared poorly with the rest of Africa in the provision of schools and...

, 7.4% of the population were considered literate, which is less than the Zone average of 14.21%; 4% of children aged 7-12 were in primary school; a negligible number of the children aged 13-14 were in junior secondary school, and a negligible number of the inhabitants aged 15-18 were in senior secondary school. Concerning sanitary conditions

Water supply and sanitation in Ethiopia

Access to water supply and sanitation in Ethiopia is amongst the lowest in Sub-Saharan Africa and the entire world. While access has increased substantially with funding from external aid, much still remains to be done to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of halving the share of people...

, about 86% of the urban houses and about 17% of all houses had access to safe drinking water at the time of the census; 11% of the urban and 3% of the total had toilet facilities.

Agriculture

A sample enumeration performed by the CSA in 2001 interviewed 22,148 farmers in this woreda, who held an average of 0.69 hectares of land. Of the 15,389 hectares of private land surveyed, 89.51% was in cultivation, 1.47% pasture, 5.96% fallow, 0.05% woodland, and 3.03% was devoted to other uses. For the land under cultivation in this woreda, 75.27% was planted in cereals, 10.18% in pulses, 3.48% in oilseeds, and 0.24% in vegetables. Eight hectares were planted in fruit trees and 35 in gesho. 82.43% of the farmers both raised crops and livestock, while 14.67% only grew crops and 2.9% only raised livestock. Land tenure in this woreda is distributed amongst 83.57% owning their land, 9.83% renting, and 6.62% under other forms of tenure.