Population Density in Bengkulu are 81people Per Square Km

Bengkulu (News): The level of population density in the province of Bengkulu still relatively less than other areas that average 81 people per kilometer (km) square.

Governor of Bengkulu Agusrin Maryon Najamuddin, Tuesday [10/07] out of the nine district / city in the region's most populous city of Bengkulu provincial capital as the 1906 people per square km.

"The most low kepadatannya ie District Mukomuko only 32 people per square km," he said.

Review of the distribution, population in the Province of Bengkulu more in the District and the City of North Bengkulu Bengkulu and Rejang Lebong District.

Proportion of the distribution of population in the North Bengkulu Regency reached 20.69 percent, 17.23 percent of Bengkulu and Rejang Lebong 15.52 percent of the population of the province is about 1.6 million people.

A large spread of the population in the three areas that, according to him is very closely related to the importance of the role of the three districts / cities in the economic activities in the province of Bengkulu.

Regency of North Bengkulu and Rejang Lebong for this to be the center of the development of agro business and especially the type of large plantations of oil palm and rubber.

While the City of Bengkulu, pust as governance, trade and education.

"Conditions that and encourage people from other districts and even from outside the province to come to the three areas," he said.

About population growth, according to him relatively quickly. In the period of 25 years (1980-2005) the population has increased to double that of only 0.77 million in 1980 to be 1.6 million in 2005.

For 2006, the collection has not been done already namuan estimated to amount to a number 1.7 million.

Meanwhile, for sex, according to him in the Province Bengkuu still more men than women.

Male population in the province to 26-is or as many as 815,471 inhabitants of 51.03 percent, while the women's 782,706 people, or 49.97 percent. (Ant)