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Uganda
Community
Area
241,038 square kilometres (land area 197,100 square kilometres)
Population,
3,600,000 (1920)
3,930,000 (1940)
5,522,000 (1950)
6,7670,000 (1960)
9,405,000 (1970)
12,442,000 (1980)
17,354,000 (1990)
23,650,000 (2000)
32,428,000 (2010)
38,225,000 (2015)
42,723,000 (2018)
Ethnicity, % The Asian community settled in Uganda from 1900 when Indian workers were brought in to build the Kenya-Uganda railway. In 1972 they were expelled by Idi Amin, and many resettled in the UK.
|
|
African |
Indian |
European |
|
1920 |
|
0.6 |
0.1 |
|
1948 |
99.2 |
0.6 |
0.1 |
|
1970 |
|
0.7 |
|
Religion, %
|
|
Animist |
Christian Protestant |
Christian R C |
Muslim Sunni |
|
1980 |
|
60% all Chr. |
|
|
|
1990 |
32.0 |
40.9 |
45.0 |
10.5 |
|
2002 |
1.0 |
43.3 |
42.0 |
12.1 |
|
2014 |
0.1 |
45.2 |
39.3 |
13.7 |
Birth and death rates Below replacement rate = 2.1
|
|
Fertility Rate |
Birth Rate |
Infant Mortality |
Death Rate |
% Aged Under 15 |
% Aged Over 65 |
% Urban |
|
1950 |
|
51.0 (+26.0) |
160.0 |
25.0 |
44.4 |
3.0 |
2.0 |
|
1960 |
7.0 |
49.0 (+28.3) |
132.2 |
20.7 |
45.9 |
2.6 |
4.4 |
|
1970 |
7.1 |
49.1 (+32.3) |
111.0 |
16.9 |
46.9 |
2.6 |
6.7 |
|
1980 |
7.1 |
49.0 (+32.5) |
128.2 |
16.5 |
47.4 |
2.6 |
7.5 |
|
1990 |
7.1 |
50.1 (+31.7) |
104.4 |
18.4 |
48.1 |
2.7 |
11.1 |
|
2000 |
6.9 |
48.0 (+32.0) |
101.6 |
16.0 |
49.6 |
2.3 |
12.1 |
|
2010 |
6.1 |
45.0 (+34.9) |
52.7 |
10.1 |
49.3 |
1.9 |
14.5 |
|
2015 |
5.4 |
42.6 (+33.7) |
39.2 |
8.9 |
48.2 |
1.9 |
16.1 |
|
2016 |
|
|
36.8 |
|
48.0 |
|
16.4 |
|
2017 |
5.1 |
38.9 (+30.4) |
35.2 |
8.5 |
|
|
|
|
2018 |
|
|
33.8 |
|
46.9 |
1.9 |
|
Life expectancy, decline in average life expectancy during the 1980s due to AIDS
41.0 (1958); 39.0 (M), 42.0 (F)
44.0 (1960); 42.4 (M), 45.6 (F)
48.8 (1970); 47.3 (M), 50.4 (F)
49.4 (1980); 47.8 (M), 50.9 (F)
45.6 (1990); 42.8 (M), 48.5 (F)
47.1 (2000); 44.7 (M), 49.5 (F)
57.1 (2010); 55.3 (M), 58.9 (F)
59.5 (2015); 57.4 (M), 61.8 (F)
63.4 (2020); 61.0 (M), 65.7 (F)
Population of principal cities
|
|
Jinja |
KAMPALA1 |
Masaka |
Mbale |
Mbarara |
|
1948 |
3,965 |
10.189 |
|
|
|
|
1960 |
30,000 |
135,000 |
|
14,000 |
|
|
1970 |
|
325,000 |
|
|
|
|
1980 |
45,060 |
484,423 |
29,123 |
28,039 |
23,155 |
|
1990 |
|
890,800 |
|
|
|
|
2002 |
|
1,189,142 |
67,800 |
71,130 |
69,400 |
|
2014 |
72,931 |
1,507,080 |
103,829 |
96,189 |
195,013 |
1Kampala was the capital of the Kingdom of Buganda in
the 19th century, Kampala was the headquarters of the Imperial
British East Africa Company from 1890, and was made the capital of Uganda in
1962.
Wealth; Gross Domestic Product (nominal values)
|
|
GDP, US$ million |
Total GDP, % of USA |
GDP per capita, US$ |
GDP per capita % of USA |
|
1960 |
423 |
0.08 |
62 |
2.06 |
|
1965 |
885 |
0.12 |
110 |
2.87 |
|
1970 |
1,410 |
0.14 |
133 |
2.53 |
|
1975 |
2,360 |
0.14 |
217 |
2.77 |
|
1980 |
1,244 |
0.04 |
100 |
0.79 |
|
1985 |
3,520 |
0.08 |
240 |
1.31 |
|
1990 |
4,300 |
0.07 |
247 |
1.03 |
|
1995 |
5,720 |
0.08 |
297 |
0.99 |
|
2000 |
6,210 |
0.06 |
260 |
0.71 |
|
2005 |
8,700 |
0.07 |
315 |
0.71 |
|
2010 |
20,180 |
0.13 |
595 |
1.23 |
|
2015 |
27,860 |
0.15 |
694 |
1.23 |
|
2016 |
25,530 |
0.14 |
615 |
1.07 |
GDP by primary sector
|
|
Agriculture % GDP |
Agriculture % employed |
Industry % GDP |
Industry % employed |
Services % GDP |
Services % employed |
|
1960 |
|
89.0 |
|
9.0 |
|
7.0 |
|
1980 |
65.0 |
83.0 |
7.1 |
14.0 |
27.9 |
11.0 |
|
1990 |
21.0 |
86.0 |
8.0 |
4.0 |
71.0 |
10.0 |
|
2000 |
44.0 |
82.0 |
17.6 |
5.0 |
37.8 |
13.0 |
|
2010 |
22.0 |
|
26.5 |
|
52.0 |
|
|
2013 |
|
71.9 |
|
4.4 |
|
23.7 |
|
2016 |
25.4 |
|
22.7 |
|
51.9 |
|
Communications
Language Official; English, Swahili (since 2005).� Luganda also spoken
Literacy
25.0% (1960)
52.5% (1980); 64.6% (M), 40.5% (F)
61.8% (1995); 73.7% (M), 50.2% (F)
68.0% (2000); 78.1% (M), 58.0% (F)
73.6% (2010); 81.8% (M), 65.5% (F)
78.4% (2015); 85.3% (M), 71.5% (F)
Physical communications � roads and railways, Rail passenger services were suspended in 1996.
|
|
Roads (km) |
Surfaced (km) |
Motor vehicles |
Cars |
Commercial Vehicles |
Railways (km) |
|
1938 |
12,050 |
|
|
|
|
510 |
|
1956 |
|
|
21,000 |
|
|
|
|
1962 |
|
|
|
12,000 |
|
|
|
1969 |
|
|
|
|
|
1,160 |
|
1980 |
|
2,504 |
|
|
|
1,120 |
|
1982 |
|
|
|
10,633 |
|
|
|
1986 |
28,322 |
6,230 |
23,500 |
12,700 |
4,600 |
|
|
1989 |
|
|
34,938 |
12,964 |
11,110 |
1,280 |
|
1991 |
|
|
50,102 |
|
|
|
|
2000 |
|
|
|
50,000 |
46,000 |
1,241 |
|
2003 |
70,746 |
22,000 |
|
|
|
|
|
2007 |
|
|
303,000 |
81,300 |
79,300 |
1,244 |
|
2010 |
|
|
366,000 |
|
|
|
|
2011 |
|
|
635,656* |
|
|
|
|
2013 |
|
|
1,228,000 |
|
|
1,244** |
*Estimate by the Uganda Revenue Authority. However many of these cars may no longer be operational and have been scrapped by their owners.
**Just 56% of this is operational (Republic of Uganda Ministry of Works & Transport)
Electronic communications, TV broadcasts began 1963
|
|
Telephones (landlines) |
Mobile Telephones |
Radios |
Televisions |
PCs |
Internet Users |
|
1944 |
1,880 |
|
300 |
|
|
|
|
1950 |
|
|
1,000 |
|
|
|
|
1960 |
|
|
90,000 |
|
|
|
|
1962 |
14.502 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
1982 |
22,000 |
|
310,000 |
78,000 |
|
|
|
1990 |
27,900 |
|
1,900,000 |
180,000 |
|
|
|
1995 |
|
1,747 |
2,300,000 |
250,000 |
10,000 |
|
|
1998 |
|
|
|
|
|
2,000 |
|
2000 |
61,700 |
127,000 |
2,900,000 |
|
60,000 |
40,000 |
|
2002 |
|
|
|
|
|
100,000 |
|
2005 |
|
1,525,000 |
|
600,000 |
250,000 |
2,000,000 |
|
2008 |
168,500 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
2010 |
|
12,328,000 |
|
|
|
3,700,000 |
|
2016 |
368,243 |
22,838,000 |
|
|
|
8,383,000 |
Tourism: Visitors to Uganda,
9,000 (1982)
9,000 (1983)
35,000 (1986)
69,000 (1990)
160,000 (1995)
193,000 (2000)
468,000 (2005)
946,000 (2010)
1,303,000 (2015)