UBOS set to release 2025 labour market survey report

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The Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) is Thursday (April 16) set to disseminate the 2025 labour market survey report at the Statistics House in Kampala.

UBOS public relations officer Nancy Anyango said in a media invite that the report provides critical insights into the demographic, occupational and socio-economic characteristics of individuals and enterprises engaged in the production of goods and services in the country.

Analysts say labour statistics are vital in the measurement of economic growth and development of a nation.

“These statistics provide indicators on the number of persons who, during a specified period, contributed to the production of goods and services in the country and their characteristics,” Chris Mukiza, the UBOS executive director, once said.

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development envisages a world free of poverty, hunger, and disease through 17 goals.

“Specifically, the objective under goal 8 is to promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all”. For these indicators to be monitored, there is a strong need for reliable and timely statistics on the labour market of the country,” Mukiza, the chief statistician, said.  

The National Planning Authority says Uganda’s demographic pressures require aggressive job creation to absorb the growing number of young people entering the labour market.

Reports say Uganda faces a severe youth employment crisis, with nearly half of its young people (aged 18–30) either unemployed or in low-paying informal jobs, despite a headline unemployment rate of around 12%.

The reports add that roughly 700,000 new, mostly young, entrants join the job market annually, fueling high underemployment, skills mismatches, and reliance on precarious informal work.