Policy development and measurement of progress in implementing various national and international development programs at the sub-national level, calls for the availability of demographic and socio-economic data also disaggregated at the level below national, to inform concentrated planning and decision making.

Besides other publications from the fourth Population and Housing Census of Rwanda 2012, this district profile is one of the 30 district profiles produced by NISR. It provides various statistics of the district, up to the level of sectors, disaggregated by age, sex and areas of residence (urban and rural) etc.