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Uganda scores 54.7% in its quality of life for 2017. This score shows how well Uganda is doing to ensure these rights and not the numbers or percentages of people. [3] Lack of education in sub-Saharan Africa is a major determinant of extreme poverty. Uganda has made some progress in fighting illiteracy with current literacy levels at 76%. [1]
Uganda's population grew from 9.5 million people in 1969 to 34.9 million in 2014. With respect to the last inter-censal period (September 2002), the population increased by 10.6 million people in the past 12 years. [213] Uganda's median age of 15 years is the lowest in the world. [138]
As a result of revisions in PPP exchange rates, poverty rates for individual countries cannot be compared with poverty rates reported in earlier editions." [11] "National poverty headcount ratio is the percentage of the population living below the national poverty line(s). National estimates are based on population-weighted subgroup estimates ...
Since 1995, Uganda has experienced rapid economic growth, but it is not clear to what extent this positive development can be attributed to Structural Adjustment. [25] Uganda is a member of the World Trade Organization, since 1 January 1995 and a member of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, from 25 October 1962. [26]
in International Businesses and the Challenges of Poverty in the Developing World (Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2004) pp. 98–110. online; Ssekamwa, J.C. History and Development of Education in Uganda (Fountain Publishers, 1997). Stephens, Rhiannon. A history of African motherhood: The case of Uganda, 700-1900 (Cambridge University Press, 2013).
Regional instability among Uganda's top trading partners combined with a 1.2 [11] million refugee population had also placed strains on Uganda's economy. Additionally, despite passing its Millennium Development Goal of halving poverty, preventing those who have escaped poverty from sliding back in has proven difficult. [ 12 ]
According to CIA World Fact Book 2004, more than 80 percent of its population is rural and 35% of the people lives below poverty line. [9] The United Nations characterised the current condition of Uganda with its unstable government and struggling people as "the world’s worst humanitarian crisis." [10] Community school at Kolir (Bukedea District)
The PEAP is the key government document for fighting poverty through rapid economic development and social transformation. [13] The 1995 Constitution of the Republic of Uganda instructs the Ugandan State to take all practical measures to promote a good water management system at all levels and defines clean and safe water as one of its 29 ...