12-638: The Uganda Freedom Fighters (UFF), also known as the Buganda Army , was a Ugandan rebel group led by former president Yusufu Lule . Opposed to Milton Obote 's government, the group fought in the Ugandan Bush War . By early 1981, the group was based in the forests between Matugga and Kapeeka , and it operated in the forests of Mukono , Luweero , and Mubende . The UFF was supposed to receive weapons shipments from Libya , but these never arrived due to Obote's military increasing security after
24-673: The Battle of Kabamba in February 1981. The UFF eventually merged with Yoweri Museveni 's Popular Resistance Army to create the National Resistance Army (NRA). The NRA would go on to topple the military junta of Tito Okello and take power in 1986. This Uganda -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Ugandan Demographic features of the population of Uganda include population density , ethnicity , education level, health of
36-510: The CIA World Factbook , unless otherwise indicated. Uganda is a religiously diverse nation with Christianity being the most widely professed religion. According to the 2014 census, over 84 percent of the population was Christian while about 14 percent of the population adhered to Islam, making it the largest minority religion. In 2009, the northern and west Nile regions were dominated by Roman Catholics, and Iganga District in
48-544: The Niger–Congo languages , preferred for native language publications in the capital and may be taught in school), other Bantu languages , Nilo-Saharan languages and Arabic. Iganga District Iganga District is a district in the Eastern Region of Uganda . The town of Iganga is the site of the district headquarters. Iganga District is bordered by Kaliro District to the north, Namutumba District to
60-760: The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs prepared the following estimates. Total Fertility Rate (TFR)(Wanted Fertility Rate) and Crude Birth Rate (CBR): Fertility data as of 2011 and 2016 (DHS Program): During the Uganda Protectorate period, the British colonialists used South Asian immigrants as intermediaries. Following independence they constituted the largest non-indigenous ethnic group in Uganda, at around 80,000 people, and they dominated trade, industry, and
72-588: The east of Uganda had the highest percentage of Muslims. note: on 21 March 2022, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Travel Alert for polio in Africa; Uganda is currently considered a high risk to travelers for circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses (cVDPV); vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV) is a strain of the weakened poliovirus that was initially included in oral polio vaccine (OPV) and that has changed over time and behaves more like
84-479: The northeast, Bugweri District to the east, Mayuge District to the south, Jinja District to the southwest, and Luuka District to the west. The district headquarters at Iganga are located approximately 44 kilometres (27 mi) northeast of Jinja , the largest city in the Busoga sub-region . In 1991, the national population census estimated the district population at 235,300. The 2002 national census estimated
96-585: The populace, economic status, religious affiliations and others. According to the 2022 revision of the World Population Prospects the total population was 45,853,778 in 2021, compared to only 5,158,000 in 1950. The proportion of children below the age of 15 in 2015 was 48.1 percent, 49.4 percent was between 15 and 65 years of age, while 2.5 percent was 65 years or older. Population by Sex and Age Group (Census 27.VIII.2014): Population Estimates by Sex and Age Group (01.VII.2020) (Based on
108-624: The professions. This caused resentment among the native African majority, which was exploited by post-Independence leaders. After Idi Amin came to power in 1971 , he declared "economic war" on the Indians, culminating in the Expulsion of Asians in Uganda in 1972 . Since Amin's overthrow in 1979 some Asians have returned. There are between 15,000 and 25,000 in Uganda today, nearly all in the capital Kampala . Demographic statistics of Uganda in 2022: The following demographic statistics are from
120-610: The results of the 2014 Population Census.): Numbers are in thousands. According to the UNHCR , Uganda hosts over 1.1 million refugees on its soil as of November 2018. Most come from neighbouring countries in the African Great Lakes region, particularly South Sudan (68.0 per cent) and Democratic Republic of the Congo (24.6%). Registration of births and deaths in Uganda is not yet complete. The Population Division of
132-609: The routine polio vaccine series; before travel to any high-risk destination, CDC recommends that adults who previously completed the full, routine polio vaccine series receive a single, lifetime booster dose of polio vaccine definition: age 15 and over can read and write English (official national language, taught in grade schools, used in courts of law and by most newspapers and some radio broadcasts), Swahili (recently made second official language, important regionally but spoken by very few people in Uganda), Luganda (most widely used of
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#1732772591186144-481: The wild or naturally occurring virus; this means it can be spread more easily to people who are unvaccinated against polio and who come in contact with the stool or respiratory secretions, such as from a sneeze, of an “infected” person who received oral polio vaccine; the CDC recommends that before any international travel, anyone unvaccinated, incompletely vaccinated, or with an unknown polio vaccination status should complete
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