Uganda’s 46m people are scattered in the country’s 17 statistical regions which according to Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) are: Kampala, Buganda, Busoga, Bukedi, Bugisu, Sebei, Teso, Karamoja, Lango, Acholi, West Nile, Madi, Bunyoro, Tooro, Rwenzori, Kigezi and Ankole). Of the 46m people, 24m are females and the remaining 22m males. Indeed, with exception of […]
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The final report for the 2024 census enumeration exercise is out and it establishes newest and latest data on a number of things characterising the Ugandan population-including their marital status and exactly how many of them are married. Overall, the 351 page report (whose contents are based on oral answers enumerators got during the actual […]
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In strict adherence to the standard reflected under the globally-accepted eight Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES) questions, the UBOS enumerators prudently used the May 2024 census enumeration exercise to ask people in Uganda’s 10.7m households the appropriate food security-related questions. Specifically, these are questions like how often household members ever worry about not being sure […]
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The phrase households in subsistence way of life has for long been used by President Museveni to describe Uganda’s materially most needy and deprived households. These are groups of people living and eating together but undergoing a lot of material deprivation because they lack financial means to adequately meet life’s most basic needs. They chiefly […]
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Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) has finally released the final report containing the ultimate findings from the 2024 National Population & Housing Census exercise that was conducted last May. This was the 6th time such exercise,ordinarily done every 10 years, was being conducted since Uganda attained independence in 1962. THE LAND CRISIS: Because without it, […]
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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 […]
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42 percent of Uganda’s population aged 16 and above save money using different mechanisms while 58 percent don’t save at all, the 2024 National Population & Housing Census report reveals. During the 2024 census, Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) asked Ugandans the type of saving mechanisms they used in the last 12 months preceding the […]
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The Total Fertility Rate (TFR) among Ugandan women is 4.5 children per woman, the 2024 National Population & Housing Census has revealed. This is a decline from 5.8 children in 2014. This implies that a woman in Uganda, who is at the beginning of her childbearing years, would expect to give birth to an average […]
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The 2024 National Population & Housing census results show that 9% of individuals aged 10 years and above (2.8m people) used internet facilities in the 12 months preceding the census. And of these, the report says, 67% used it for social networking while 16% used it for academic purposes and 13% used it for business […]
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The 2024 Census report has a chapter on characteristics of Uganda’s youth and adolescent population; clearly distinguishing them from other age groups of the population. Having opted to rely on Uganda’s National Youth Policy (2015) and National Youth Council Act (2015) respectively, for purposes of 2024 census, UBOS defined a youth to be a person […]
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