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Uganda People 1996
19,573,262 (July 1995 est.)
49% (female 4,792,164; male 4,834,757)
49% (female 4,802,650; male 4,704,159)
2% (female 215,648; male 223,884) (July 1995 est.)
48.03 births/1,000 population (1995 est.)
24.35 deaths/1,000 population (1995 est.)
NA migrant(s)/1,000 population (1995 est.)
Uganda is host to refugees from a number of neighboring countries, including
Zaire, Sudan, and Rwanda; probably in excess of 100,000 southern Sudanese
fled to Uganda during the past year; many of the 8,000 Rwandans who took
refuge in Uganda have returned home
112.2 deaths/1,000 live births (1995 est.)
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Life expectancy at birth:
6.7 children born/woman (1995 est.)
Baganda 17%, Karamojong 12%, Basogo 8%, Iteso 8%, Langi 6%, Rwanda 6%,
Bagisu 5%, Acholi 4%, Lugbara 4%, Bunyoro 3%, Batobo 3%, European, Asian,
Arab 1%, other 23%
Roman Catholic 33%, Protestant 33%, Muslim 16%, indigenous beliefs 18%
English (official), Luganda, Swahili, Bantu languages, Nilotic languages
age 15 and over can read and write (1991)
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