Key facts on Uganda's Population

Population size

• Today, the total projected population of Uganda is 31.7 million. (Males at 15.5 Million and Females at 16.2 Million)
• The Total Fertility Rate (TFR) is 6.7

Why the Fertility is high

• High desired family size of 5.6 for men and 4.8 for women
• Unmet family planning of 42%
• Low contraceptive use of 24%

Implications

• Of 6.2 million women of reproductive age, 785,000 are currently pregnant
• Over 1 million children will be born in 2007
• 6,500 births will lead to maternal mortality

Morbidity and mortality

• Highest cause of morbidity has been malaria since 2000, with 59% and 50% in 2005/2006, followed by respiratory infections, 14% in 2005/2006
• Infant mortality is 76 births per live 1000 births
• Under five mortality is 137 births per 1000 live births
• Maternal motality is 435/1000 live births

Causes of mortality

• Birth related (more than 1/3 of the infant deaths as high risk)
• Preventable diseases (malaria, diarrhoea, measles, pnuemonia)
• Malnutrition
• Low full immunisation

Urbanisation

• Urbanisation population growth in 2002 stood at 3.0%

Migration

• Internal migration rates in 2005/2006 were 20%, international migrates constituted 0.2% of the total population
• Reasons for migration include: search for employment 28%, marriage 15%, insecurity 26%, join family 15%, education 9%, others 7%

Economic Activity

• In Kampala, people work for 11.8 hours on average
• Under employment in Uganda was 17%in 2002/2003, this reduced to 12% in 2005/2006

Household characteristics

• 79% in rural areas use kerosene lantern (tadooba) for lighting
• 41% in urban areas use electricity
• 10% of households use the bush as toilet facility in 2005/2006, 86% use pit latrines and 1% use flashing toilets.

Welfare and poverty

• In 2002/2003, 25% of households took one meal a day. This improved to 18% taking one meal a day in 2005/2006. And on average 8% in Uganda took one meal a day in 2005/2006
• In 2002/2003, 38.8 % lived below a dollar which declined to 31.1% in 2005/2006 implying that as per 2006 8.4 million people live under the poverty level