And the government fails to get the desired ‘demographic dividend’ Uganda has a bad population structure, according to population and development experts. They say Uganda’s population structure has a broad base; meaning it comprises mainly children and young non-working people aged below 14 years, making it the country with the …
Read More »Tanzania population census slated for August 23
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | Xinhua | Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan announced on Friday that the country’s National Population and Housing Census will be conducted on August 23, 2022, and urged citizens to be counted for their own benefit. President Hassan announced the date for the population census when …
Read More »Turkey’s aging population dragging economy down
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is an ardent advocate of population increase and has called for families to have more children Ankara, Turkey | Xinhua | As a country that once boasted one of the youngest populations in Europe, Turkey has been aging fast in recent years, which is slowly dragging its …
Read More »Uganda’s big population puzzle
Can govt tap into the country’s relentless population boom? Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | Uganda has the second youngest population in the world and this is only expected to increase over the coming decades as the number of children, adolescents and youth in the country is forecasted to rise from …
Read More »Up to 15% of women in Uganda cannot access contraceptives
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Fifteen percent of the women in Uganda can’t access contraceptives. In the survey which was conducted jointly by the Ministry of Health, Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS), and Makerere University School of Public Health, researchers say sexually active respondents were asked whether they intended …
Read More »Affordable microfinance needed to boost home ownership among low-income earners
With a projected urbanization of 5.6% per annum, a more orderly response to the rapid urbanization in Uganda is needed COMMENT | Abdul Kyanika | In 2020, Uganda’s population constituted about 46 million people of whom 27% were urban residents. Urban households are predicted to grow from 2.9 million in 2020 …
Read More »Population explosion worries Pallisa officials
Mbale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Pallisa district authorities have raised a red flag over the rapid population growth there. According to information from the district, the population in Pallisa stands at over 400,000 from 270,000 people in 2014 District officials say the rapid population increase has pilled pressure on …
Read More »China’s mainland population grows to 1.41178 billion
✅ Population 1.41178 billion, up by 5.38% ✅ Annual growth rate of 0.53% ✅ Urban residents up to 63.89% ✅ Gender ratio falls to 105.07 ✅ People aged 60 or above 18.7% ✅ Average age of the Chinese 38.8yrs ✅ working-age 16-59, 880 million China has maintained population growth over …
Read More »Is Alo Alarika the oldest living Ugandan, at 108 years?
📍 Uganda 🇺🇬 population figures ✳ Aged 0-14yrs – 46% ✳ Aged 10-24yrs – 34.5% ✳ Aged 15-64yrs – 52% ✳ Aged 65+ – 2% ✳ Life expectancy 64yrs Tororo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | There are a lot of undiscovered gems hidden in the heartland of Padhola. It …
Read More »REPORT: Health, education and tourism hit hard by COVID-19
✳ 🇺🇬 Pop 45.7 million ✳ 46% of them aged 0-14 ✳ Life expectancy 64 years ✳ Maternal Mortality Ratio 375/100k ✳ Aged 0-14yrs – 46% ✳ Aged 10-24yrs – 34.5% ✳ Aged 15-64yrs – 52% ✳ Aged 65+ – 2% ✳ Life expectancy 64yr Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT …
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