Key facts on Uganda's Population

Population size

• Today (Mid 2011), the total projected population of Uganda is 33 million.
• 56% of the population is below 18 years.
• The Total Fertility Rate (TFR) is 6.7 children.

Why the Fertility is high

• High unmet need for family planning of 41%
• Low contraceptive use of 24%
• High desired family size of 5.6 for men and 4.8 for women
• High teenage pregnancy of 25%
• Male sex preference by couples.

Morbidity and mortality

• Highest cause of morbidity has been malaria with 48.2% in 2009/10 followed by respiratory infections (24.1%)
• Infant mortality is 76 births per live 1000 births
• Under five mortality is 137 births per 1000 live births
• Maternal motality is 435/100,000 live births

Causes of child mortality

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

Major causes of maternal mortality

• Severe bleeding
• Infections
• Unsafe abortion
• Eclampsia
• Obstructed Labour

Urbanisation

• Urbanisation population growth was 3.0% in 2002 and is estimated to be 14.8 in 2011

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%

Lobour

• Total labour force increased from 10.9 million people in 2005/2006 to 13.4 million people in 2009/2010.
• Unemployment rate was 9.5% for urban and 3.0% for rural, overall unemployment was 4.2% in 2009/2010.
• Majority 66% of the population is engaged in agriculture

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 2005/2006, 31.1 % lived below a dollar which declined to 24.5.% in 2009/20010 implying that as per 2009,  7.5 million people live under the poverty level.