 Records at the Nordic Africa Institute website provide details of a primary school in Menge in 1968.In 1970, a group of three German travelers travelling down the Abay River describe Menge as a settlement with masonry houses, and record that it had a police station.Based on figures from the Central Statistical Agency (CSA), in 2005 this town has an estimated total population of 318, of whom 176 were males and 142 were females.