Dader ( Amharic: ደደር) is a town located in the

East Hararghe Zone East Hararghe ( om, Harargee Bahaa) is a zone in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia. East Hararghe Zone is bordered on the southwest by Bale, on the west by West Hararghe Zone, on the north by Dire Dawa and on the north and east by the Somali Region. T ...

of the

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with an altitude of above sea level. It is the administrative center of the

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. Between 1954 and 1967 Deder received telephone service. Records at the

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website provide details of several schools in the town during the year 1968. By 1957 a

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mission had been established in the town, which included a school and a hospital."Local History in Ethiopia"
The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 3 May 2011) In the 1930s Deder was a center of coffee production, having a coffee market on the saddle between the Mounts Oubi and Miinya. The town was occupied by the Italians 21 July 1936.

Demographics

Based on figures from the

Central Statistical Agency The Central Statistical Agency (CSA; Amharic: ማዕከላዊ ስታቲስቲክስ ኤጀንሲ) is an agency of the government of Ethiopia designated to provide all surveys and censuses for that country used to monitor economic and social growt ...

in 2005, Deder has an estimated total population of 13,710 of whom 6,592 are men and 7,118 are women.CSA 2005 National Statistics
, Table B.4 The 1994 census reported this town had a total population of 7,675 of whom 3,575 were men and 4,100 were women.

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