Awra Amba RJ 300612 EN - Contacter un comité local d'Attac

Awra Amba, a current experiment of utopian socialism
years, with an average of 7.5 years and a median of 5.4 years (50 % of couples have a difference in
age lower or higher than 5.4 years): see Figure 11.
Figure 11: Difference in age of married people in 2005, acc. to data by Atnafu (2005/36).
Again according to At05, the 47 couples had between 0 and 7 children, with an average of 3.1
children per couple and a median of 3.3 (see Figure 12), while the Ethiopian average was 4.2 in 2010
(Unicef, 2012). The community had also 49 single parents (widowed, separated or divorced), which
had 1 to 7 children, i.e. 2.3 children on average (with a median of 2.5 children). The main cause of
this situation was the death of the spouse (57 % of the cases).
Figure 12:
Distribution of married couples and single parents according to their number of living
children, in 2005, acc. to data by Atnafu (2005/33-34).
A family in Awra Amba only includes the husband and wife and the children if they exist, while it is
usually broader in the Amhara region (Me09/45). The average size of household is therefore smaller
54 / 85