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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) Executive Director, Dr Chris Mukiza, has dismissed social media reports that his contract has run out. Mukiza said he was appointed to his position on March 30, 2019, meaning his five-year contract ends on March 31, 2024. The …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDPENDENT | Statistics body, Uganda Bureau of Statistics said it will use sports as one of the avenues to help it popularize the forthcoming housing and population census in August 2023. Sport is a uniting factor in Uganda. Whereas Uganda is a very disunited country, when …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than half of working Ugandans have no access to social protection as fall back when they retire or stop working. This is according to a report by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics-UBOS from a survey conducted between June 2021 to December 2021 in the …

YOUNG MEN DYING: The puzzle of why numbers decline when they turn 20 Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | Uganda’s demographic projections are interesting; particularly on population distribution by gender between ages 15-24 years. Demographers The Independent has talked to say it is a well-known fact that women in Uganda …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s annual headline inflation for the year ending in September increased to 10 percent from 9 percent registered in August, Uganda Bureau of Statistics said Friday. The agency attributed the increase in the headline inflation to rising prices of commodities such as rice and sugar, …

*⃣ Total Population in 2014 was 34.6 milion *⃣ Females 51% of population *⃣ Children below 18 years 55% *⃣ Fertility rate was 5.8 children per woman. *⃣ Infant mortality 53 deaths per 1000 live births *⃣ Literacy rate 72%] *⃣ 12.5% of primary school children not going to school …

This is the 6th straight month it is rising causing anxiety in the interest rate market  Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | Inflation, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for Uganda for the 12 months to August 2022, increased to 9.0%, up from 7.9% registered in July 2022, according …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of Parliament on the Committee on Human Rights have tasked the officials from Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) to explain how they concluded that Uganda had attained a middle-income status. UBOS led by James Muwonge, the Director of Methodology and Statistics was on Wednesday, 10 …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s first ever multidimensional poverty index report for 2021, has revealed that up to 42.1 percent of Uganda’s population lack in several socials and economic aspects of a normal human life. The survey conducted by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics, took into consideration a number of …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Bureaus of Statistics-UBOS has asked the government to halt the roll-out of the Parish Development Model program-PDM, saying the statistical data required for its implementation isn’t readily available. PDM is a government program aimed at improving the livelihood of Ugandans, especially the 39% …