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  • New report shows how Uganda has changed under Museveni in the last 10 years counting from 2014 to 2024

    New report shows how Uganda has changed under Museveni in the last 10 years counting from 2014 to 2024

    On the night of 19th May this very year, Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) commenced the 2024 census exercise (NPHC) which lasted for 10 days.

    The idea was establish the number of people living and working in Uganda and quality of life they live. The census also sought to establish the other welfare-related characteristics of the Ugandan population.

    The last census, preceding the one of 2024, had been conducted in the year 2014. The new census of 2024, whose final report is to be released and proclaimed by UBOS next month, equally shows the ways in which different things have changed in Museveni’s Uganda in the 10 year period counting from 2014 to 2024.

    In the following story, we briefly summarise and reflect on ways in which Uganda has changed in the last 10 years (2014-2024). To begin with is the population itself which grew from 34.6m people in 2014 to 45.9m in 2024. Of these, 24.3m are females and 21.5m are males. Ten years earlier, men were 17m and women 17.5m.

    When it comes to households, it stood at 7.3m in 2014 and today in 2024, it has grown to 10.6m. In 2014, 50% of the households in urban areas lived in rented premises and this today has reduced to 42%. In rural areas, those renting were 12% in 2014 and today the number has grown to 13%.

    When it comes to citizenship, the 2014 census results indicated that 98.5% of the people living in Uganda at that time were citizens with foreigners or non-citizens living in Uganda accounting for 1.5%. That was 10 years ago. Today this has all changed with 99% of the people living in Uganda being citizens and another 1% being foreigners or non-citizens.

    The 2024 census report establishes that 23% of the people in Uganda have and own a TV set compared to 2014 when it stood at 13.9%. Its also indicated or revealed that 3.8% of the households in Uganda own or have access to a computer of some sort. There is stagnation of some sort because even in 2014, the figure was 3.8%.

    Largely because a lot of people these days depend on their phones to access news and other information, the 2024 census report shows that fewer Ugandans or households own or rely on conventional radio (41%) than in 2014 when 60% owned radio sets and exclusively relied on the same to access information and news.

    When it comes to unemployment rate, the 2024 report shows that 10.5% of the working age Ugandans are jobless compared to 2014 when it stood at 9.4%. In 2014, the proportion of Ugandans with no education at all stood at 18.9% of the population compared to 2024 when it stands at 21.8%. One wonders why anyone would stay away from education even when universal education programmes like UPE and USE have been here for decades endeavouring to enable everyone to access formal education of some sort.

    The 2024 report also shows that currently, 11.6% of Ugandans own or have access or can afford to use a motorcycle as a means of transport compared to 2014’s 8.6%. When it comes to bicycles, the 2024 census report puts ownership and access at 24% compared to 2014’s 31.5%. When it comes to motor vehicles, the 2024 census report puts the proportion of Ugandans who own them at 3.9%.

    The 2024 report also credits improved immunisation coverage and enhanced access to high quality health services for the improvement in child and maternal health indicators. Under the 2024 report, Uganda’s maternal mortality rate stands at 207 in every 100,000 live births compared to 2014’s 438. It simply means the number of mothers who die in child birth-related circumstances in every 100,000.

    There is also something about literacy rates and how the same has evolved in the last 10 years. In 2024, Uganda’s literacy rate stood at 74% compared to 2014’s 72.2%. When it comes to access to clean water, the 2024 report shows that 86.6% of urban dwellers in Uganda have access to clean safe water and 77.4% in rural areas. This refers to piped water in the case of urban areas and protected springs and boreholes for the case of rural areas. In 2014, 28.8% of urban dwellers accessed clean water and 71.2% did in rural areas.

    A comparison of the two census reports (2014 & 2024) also shows that more Ugandans currently sleep or live under iron sheets-roofed houses than was the case 10 years ago (2014). Today 47% of households dwell in one-roomed houses compared to 2014’s 53%. More Ugandans live in brick houses than under mud ones.
    In rural areas, 70% of the people live in their own houses (not rented) compared to 2014’s 83%.

  • Bunyoro, Buganda Regions Have Highest Number Of Households Engaged In Commercial Farming-Report

    Bunyoro, Buganda Regions Have Highest Number Of Households Engaged In Commercial Farming-Report

    The 2024 National Population & Housing Census report has revealed that the highest percentage of agricultural households (53%) undertook agricultural production mainly for home consumption and 27 percent for only home consumption.

    The report reveals that 17.1% of the households in Uganda engaged in agricultural production mainly for sale.

    According to the report, 62 percent of households in Uganda are engaged in agriculture as at May 2024 compared to about 80 percent reported in the 2014 Census.

    The report reveals that households engaged in crop growing are 61 percent compared to 75 percent reported in census 2014. In addition, 37 percent of the households are engaged in livestock keeping compared to 58 percent in the 2014 census.

    The results reveal that there are more households engaged in crop and livestock (22 %), followed by those engaged in crop growing only (21%), while those keeping livestock were three percent.

    The results further show that the Teso sub-region has the highest percentage of households engaged in agricultural production (87%), followed by Lango (83%) and Karamoja and Acholi at 81%. Buganda has the lowest percentage of households engaged in agriculture (38%).

    Bunyoro & Buganda lead in commercial farming

    According to the census report, Bunyoro and Buganda Sub Regions at 27.1% and 27% respectively reported the highest percentage of agricultural households undertaking the activity mainly for sale while Karamoja (7%) reported the least.

    These are followed by Tooro at 22.7% and Elgon at 18.7%.

    Other regions with a big number of households engaged in commercial farming are; Ankole (17.2%), Busoga (14.6%), Kigezi (14%) and Lango (13.6%).

    Regarding producing for only for home consumption, Busoga has the highest percentage (32%), followed by Kigezi, Elgon, Tooro, Karamoja, and Bukedi at 30%.

    The report shows that Teso sub-region has the highest percentage of agriculture households producing mainly for home consumption with 69%, followed by West Nile and Acholi each at 65% while Buganda had the least with 41%, followed by Tooro and Bunyoro at 45% and 46.6% respectively.

    It’s important to note that the Third National Development Plan identified the agro-industrialization program with a goal of increasing commercialization and competitiveness of agricultural production and agro- processing.

    Therefore, the census results on the agricultural sector are a key ingredient in the monitoring of the NDP III performance, informing decision-making and policy formulation.

  • New Government Report makes interesting toilet use findings

    New Government Report makes interesting toilet use findings

    The newly released 2024 census report by UBOS is 380 pages and covers many things including the availability of toilet facilities and the ease with which majority Ugandans can access the same.

    The report shows that in many parts of Uganda, access to decent toilet facilities remains very constrained, something that exposes many of Uganda’s children to poor sanitation-related vulnerability.

    It’s revealed in the report that in Karamoja, only 12% of the children live in homes or households which have their own toilet as the rest are left to use open defecation or to rely on shared toilet facilities with neighbors who might be doing better.

    In Buganda, which is the region with best access to decent toilet facilities, 62% of the children are able to daily access and use decent toilet facilities. Still, this leaves the remaining 48% in turmoil and extreme sanitation-related vulnerability.

    The same report shows how low numbers of children have access to toilets from their own respective homes or households and this varies in different sub regions as is illustrated below: In West Nile, only 27% of the children have access to decent toilet facilities, which enables them to safely and effectively dispose their faecal matter.

    It’s 30% in Acholi, 36% in Bunyoro, 36% in Tooro, 38% in Ankole, 29% in Kigezi, 40% in Busoga, 32% in Bukedi (Tororo etc), 34% in Elgon, 24% in Teso, 27% in Lango and mere 12% in Karamoja. This indicator shows there is need for the GoU to do a lot more and to quickly prioritize household level hygiene for especially Uganda’s children aged 17 years and below.

    The same UBOS Census report 2024 shows that nationally, 6% of children in Uganda have no access to toilet facilities at all; which leaves them with no option but to depend on open defecation (basically in bushes).

    In Karamoja, 61% of the children live under very appalling conditions, which leaves them with no option but to thrive on open defecation. In Acholi, its 14% and 11% in Teso. The other sub regions rank as follows; 8% in West Nile, Bukedi 6%, Lango 5%, Bunyoro 4%, Busoga 4%, Elgon 3%, Tooro 2%, Buganda 1.7%, Ankole 1.2% and Kigezi 1%.

    Being the chief consumer of UBOS statistics, President Museveni will predictably find this very interesting and it’s our prayer that he is promptly moved to action so that this appalling situation is mitigated by the GoU on good time.