Kampala — Tomorrow is World Population Day. This follows a meeting by world leaders in 1968 proclaiming that individuals have a basic human right to determine freely and responsibly the number and ...

A new report by the US-based Population Reference Bureau reveals that over the next few decades, Uganda’s population growth rate could be the highest in the world. Evelyn Lirri analyses the report ...

As Ugandans were warming up for the national population and housing census, which was to take place this August, the Uganda Bureau of Standards (UBOS) has postponed the exercise. Another date will be ...

State of Uganda’s Population Report 2013 shows that 88 per cent of Ugandans live in rural areas, many of them facing abject poverty, poor service delivery, poor infrastructure, and famine in some ...

Uganda is urbanizing at an estimated rate of 5.2% annually, one of the fastest-growing rates in the world. According to the Ministry of Lands, Housing, and Urban Development, in 2030 Uganda’s urban ...

Populations will surge in the coming decades in East African countries, with Tanzania and Uganda overtaking Kenya by the end of this century, the United Nations reported on Wednesday. Kenya’s current ...

Uganda's population stands at 27.4 million. Studies show that in 20 years, her population is to double to 55 million. And midway through the century, the population is likely to stretch to 130 million ...

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The Ugandan government and the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees are calling on the donor community to extend $927 million to support the over 1.2 million refugees living in Uganda. But the appeal ...

The population of Uganda’s mountain gorillas has grown to 400, up from 302 in 2006, according to a census conducted last year, bringing the total number of mountain gorillas in Africa to 880 and ...