Population: 18,690,070 (July 1991), growth rate 3.7% (1991)

Birth rate: 51 births/1,000 population (1991)

Death rate: 15 deaths/1,000 population (1991)

Net migration rate: 0 migrants/1,000 population (1991)

Infant mortality rate: 94 deaths/1,000 live births (1991)

Life expectancy at birth: 50 years male, 52 years female (1991)

Total fertility rate: 7.3 children born/woman (1991)

Nationality: noun--Ugandan(s); adjective--Ugandan

Ethnic divisions: African 99%, European, Asian, Arab 1%

Religion: Roman Catholic 33%, Protestant 33%, Muslim 16%, rest indigenous beliefs

Language: English (official); Luganda and Swahili widely used; other Bantu and Nilotic languages

Literacy: 48% (male 62%, female 35%) age 15 and over can read and write (1990 est.)

Labor force: 4,500,000 (est.); subsistence agriculture 94%, wage earners (est.) 6%; 50% of population of working age (1983)

Organized labor: 125,000 union members

NOTE: The information regarding Uganda on this page is re-published from the 1991 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Uganda People 1991 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Uganda People 1991 should be addressed to the CIA.