Demographics of Uganda

Numbers are in thousands.

According to the UNHCR, Uganda hosts over 1.1 million refugees on its soil as of November 2018.[4] Most come from neighbouring countries in the African Great Lakes region, particularly South Sudan (68.0 percent) and Democratic Republic of the Congo (24.6%).[4]

Total Fertility Rate (TFR)(Wanted Fertility Rate) and Crude Birth Rate (CBR):[5][6][7]

Fertility data as of 2011 and 2016 (DHS Program):[9]

An ethnolinguistic map of Uganda.

During the Uganda Protectorate period, the British colonialists used South Asian immigrants as intermediaries. Following independence they constituted the largest non-indigenous ethnic group in Uganda, at around 80,000 people, and they dominated trade, industry, and the professions. This caused resentment among the native African majority, which was exploited by post-Independence leaders.

After Idi Amin came to power in 1971, he declared "economic war" on the Indians, culminating in the Expulsion of Asians in Uganda in 1972. Since Amin's overthrow in 1979 some Asians have returned. There are between 15,000 and 25,000 in Uganda today, nearly all in the capital Kampala.

There are also about 10,000 Europeans, mostly of native English origin, and 3,000 Arabs of various national origins in Uganda.

44,279,563 (June 2018 estimate)

3.2% (2017 est.)

42.9 births/1,000 population (2017 est.)

10.2 deaths/1,000 population (2017 est.)

-0.7 migrants/1,000 population (2017 est.)

urban population: 23.8% of total population (2018)

rate of urbanization: 5.7% annual rate of change (2015-20 est.)

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: 0.7 male(s)/female
total population: 1.01 male(s)/female (2009 estimate)

total population: 63.3 years
male: 62.2 years
female: 64.2 years (2014 population census Ubos)

noun: Ugandan
adjective: Ugandan

• Baganda 16.5%
• Banyankole 9.8%
• Basoga 8.8%
• Bakiga 7.1%
• Iteso 7%
• Langi 6.3%
• Bagisu 4.9%
• Acholi 4.4%
• Lugbara 3.3%
• Other 32.1% [12]

Uganda is a religiously diverse nation with Christianity being the most widely professed religion. According to the 2014 census, over 84 percent of the population was Christian while about 14 percent of the population adhered to Islam, making it the largest minority religion.[13] In 2009, the northern and west Nile regions were dominated by Roman Catholics, and Iganga District in the east of Uganda had the highest percentage of Muslims.[14][12]

• Roman Catholic 39.3%,
• Protestant 45.1%
  • Anglican 32%
  • Pentecostal 11.1%
  • Seventh-Day Adventist 1.7%
  • Baptist 0.3%
• Islam 13.7%
• Other 1.6%
• None 0.2%

English (official national language, taught in grade schools, used in courts of law and by most newspapers and some radio broadcasts), Swahili (recently made second official language, important regionally but spoken by very few people in Uganda), Luganda (most widely used of the Niger–Congo languages, preferred for native language publications in the capital and may be taught in school), other Bantu languages, Nilo-Saharan languages and Arabic.