Uganda fertility rate highest in Africa â€" UN
Sep 10, 2006
UGANDA’s population is the fastest growing in East Africa and has the highest total fertility rate (TFR) in Africa.
By Alfred Wasike
UGANDA’s population is the fastest growing in East Africa and has the highest total fertility rate (TFR) in Africa.
The United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) has put Uganda Government on the alert to watch energy supplies and environmental conservation to maintain one of the world’s fastest growing populations.
The State of the World and State of Uganda population reports launched on Thursday in Kampala put the world population at 6.540 billion and Uganda at 29.9 million but highlighted the TFR at 7.11.
Uganda’s rapid population growth is attributed to the high total fertility rate of seven children per woman on average for the last 40 years.
The report said Uganda’s population grew from two million in 1900, 2.5 in 1911, 2.8 in 1921, five million in 1949, 24.4 in 2002 and is currently projected at 28.2 million.
Uganda’s population is projected to double to 55 million by 2025 and more than double to 103m by 2050.
By 2050, Tanzania will have 88.3 million people, Kenya 76.6 million, Rwanda 23.7 million and Burundi 20.2 million people.
The reports were launched by investments state minister Prof. Semakula Kiwanuka in the presence of UNFPA resident representative Dr. fatma Mrisho, National Planning Authority chairperson Dr. Frank Mabirizi and Population Secretariat director Dr. Jotham Musinguzi.
Semakula said, “The challenge we have is the daunting task of achieving our Poverty Eradication Action Plan and Millennium Development Goals by 2015. current indications show that we have to work even harder especially on poverty and maternal and infant health.â€
UGANDA’s population is the fastest growing in East Africa and has the highest total fertility rate (TFR) in Africa.
The United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) has put Uganda Government on the alert to watch energy supplies and environmental conservation to maintain one of the world’s fastest growing populations.
The State of the World and State of Uganda population reports launched on Thursday in Kampala put the world population at 6.540 billion and Uganda at 29.9 million but highlighted the TFR at 7.11.
Uganda’s rapid population growth is attributed to the high total fertility rate of seven children per woman on average for the last 40 years.
The report said Uganda’s population grew from two million in 1900, 2.5 in 1911, 2.8 in 1921, five million in 1949, 24.4 in 2002 and is currently projected at 28.2 million.
Uganda’s population is projected to double to 55 million by 2025 and more than double to 103m by 2050.
By 2050, Tanzania will have 88.3 million people, Kenya 76.6 million, Rwanda 23.7 million and Burundi 20.2 million people.
The reports were launched by investments state minister Prof. Semakula Kiwanuka in the presence of UNFPA resident representative Dr. fatma Mrisho, National Planning Authority chairperson Dr. Frank Mabirizi and Population Secretariat director Dr. Jotham Musinguzi.
Semakula said, “The challenge we have is the daunting task of achieving our Poverty Eradication Action Plan and Millennium Development Goals by 2015. current indications show that we have to work even harder especially on poverty and maternal and infant health.â€