 The majority of the inhabitants said they practiced Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, with 97.28% reporting that as their religion, while 2.71% of the population were Muslim.The 1994 national census reported a total population for this woreda of 90,186, of whom 45,657 were men and 44,529 were women; 4,597 or 5.1% of its population were urban dwellers.The ethnic groups reported in Welkait are Tigrayan (53.08%), Amhara (46.61%); and all other ethnic groups made up only 0.31% of the population.