Uganda

Program Overview > Uganda

INTRODUCTION

The colonial boundaries created by Britain to delimit Uganda, grouped together a wide range of ethnic groups with different political systems and cultures. These differences prevented the establishment of a working political community after independence was achieved in 1962.

The dictatorial regime of Idi AMIN (1971-79) was responsible for the deaths of some 300,000 opponents; guerrilla war and human rights abuses under Milton OBOTE (1980-85) claimed at least another 100,000 lives.

The rule of Yoweri MUSEVENI since 1986 has brought relative stability and economic growth to Uganda. During the 1990s, the government promulgated non-party presidential and legislative elections.

In January 2009, Uganda assumed a nonpermanent seat on the UN Security Council for the 2009-10 term.

Note: Statistical information and copy in the Project Locations area of our website is drawn from the CIA World Factbook, 2010.

OTHER INFORMATION >Uganda

Major Infectious Diseases:

Degree of Risk: very high

Food or Waterborne Diseases : bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever

Vectorborne Diseases: malaria, plague, and African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness)

Water Contact Disease: : schistosomiasis

Animal Contact Disease: rabies

Median age:

Total: 15 years (2009 est.)

Male: 14.9 years (2009 est.)

Female: 15.1 years (2009 est.)

Nationality:

Noun: Ugandan(s)

Adjective: Ugandan

Ethnic Groups: Baganda 16.9%, Banyakole 9.5%, Basoga 8.4%, Bakiga 6.9%, Iteso 6.4%, Langi 6.1%, Acholi 4.7%, Bagisu 4.6%, Lugbara 4.2%, Bunyoro 2.7%, other 29.6% (2002 census)

Religions: Roman Catholic 41.9%, Protestant 42% (Anglican 35.9%, Pentecostal 4.6%, Seventh Day Adventist 1.5%), Muslim 12.1%, other 3.1%, none 0.9% (2002 census)

Languages: English (official national language, taught in grade schools, used in courts of law and by most newspapers and some radio broadcasts), Ganda or Luganda (most widely used of the Niger-Congo languages, preferred for native language publications in the capital and may be taught in school), other Niger-Congo languages, Nilo-Saharan languages, Swahili, Arabic

Population:

Total: 32,369,558
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality, higher death rates, lower population growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2009 est.)

Population Growth Rate:

Growth Rate: 2.692% (2009 est.)

Birth Rate: 47.84 births/1,000 population (2009 est.)

Death Rate: 12.09 deaths/1,000 population (July 2009 est.)

Net Migration Ratio: -8.83 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2009 est.)

Sex Ratio: at birth: 1.03 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.01 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.01 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.71 male(s)/female
total population: 1 male(s)/female (2009 est.)

Life Expectancy at Birth: total population: 52.72 years
male: 51.66 years
female: 53.81 years (2009 est.)

Infant Mortality Rate: total: 64.82 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 68.46 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 61.07 deaths/1,000 live births (2009 est.)

Total Fertility Rate: 6.77 children born/woman (2009 est.)

Uganda

AT A GLANCE
Uganda

Age Structure:

0-14 years: 50% (male 8,152,830/female 8,034,366) (2009 est.)

15-64 years: 47.9% (male 7,789,209/female 7,703,143) (2009 est.)

65 years and over: 2.1% (male 286,693/female 403,317) (2009 est.)

HIV/AIDS:

Adult Prevelence Rate: 5.4% (2007 est.)

People Living with HIV/AIDS: 940,000 (2007 est.)

Deaths: 77,000 (2007 est.)

Literacy:

Definition: age 15 and over can read and write

Population: total: 66.8%
male: 76.8%
female: 57.7% (2002 census)