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Uganda POPULATION
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Figure 4. Population by Age and Sex, 1989
Size
In 1990 the Ugandan government estimated the nation's
population to be 16.9 million people; international
estimates
ranged as high as 17.5 million (see
table 2, Appendix).
Most
estimates were based on extrapolations from the 1969
census,
which enumerated approximately 9.5 million people. The
results of
the 1980 census, which counted 12.6 million people, were
cast in
doubt by the loss of census data in subsequent outbreaks
of
violence.
Life expectancy in 1989 averaged fifty-three years,
roughly
two years higher for women than men. The population was
increasing by over 3.2 percent per year, a substantial
increase
over the rate of 2.5 percent in the 1960s and
significantly more
than the 2.8 percent growth rate estimated for most of
East
Africa. At this rate, Uganda's population was expected to
double
between 1989 and the year 2012. The crude birth rate,
estimated
to be 49.9 per 1,000 population, was equivalent to other
regional
estimates. Fertility ratios, defined as the number of live
births
per year per 1,000 women between the ages of sixteen and
fortyfive years, ranged from 115 in the south to more than 200
in the
northeast. In general, fertility declined in more
developed
areas, and birth rates were lower among educated women.
The crude death rate was 18 per 1,000 population,
equivalent
to the average for East Africa as a whole. Infant
mortality in
the first year of life averaged 120 per 1,000 population,
but
some infant deaths were not reported to government
officials.
Deaths from AIDS were increasing in the late 1980s
(see Health and Welfare
, this ch.). Death rates were generally lower
in highaltitude areas, in part because of the lower incidence of
malaria.
Data as of December 1990
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