23,317,560
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the
effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life
expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population
and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age
and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2000 est.)

0-14 years: 51% (male 5,986,645; female 5,936,754)
15-64 years: 47% (male 5,443,613; female 5,448,563)
65 years and over: 2% (male 240,819; female 261,166) (2000 est.)

2.72% (2000 est.)

48.04 births/1,000 population (2000 est.)

18.44 deaths/1,000 population (2000 est.)

-2.4 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2000 est.)
note: according to the UNHCR, by the end of 1998, Uganda was host to
205,000 refugees from a number of neighboring countries, including:
Sudan 190,000, Rwanda 7,500, and Democratic Republic of the Congo
5,400; refugees began returning to their countries of origin in 2000

at birth: 1.03 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.01 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.92 male(s)/female
total population: 1 male(s)/female (2000 est.)

93.25 deaths/1,000 live births (2000 est.)

total population: 42.93 years
male: 42.22 years
female: 43.67 years (2000 est.)

6.96 children born/woman (2000 est.)

noun: Ugandan(s)
adjective: Ugandan

Baganda 17%, Karamojong 12%, Basogo 8%, Iteso 8%, Langi
6%, Rwanda 6%, Bagisu 5%, Acholi 4%, Lugbara 4%, Bunyoro 3%, Batobo
3%, non-African (European, Asian, Arab) 1%, other 23%

Roman Catholic 33%, Protestant 33%, Muslim 16%, indigenous
beliefs 18%

English (official national language, taught in grade
schools, used in courts of law and by most newspapers and some radio
broadcasts), Ganda or Luganda (most widely used of the Niger-Congo
languages, preferred for native language publications in the capital
and may be taught in school), other Niger-Congo languages,
Nilo-Saharan languages, Swahili, Arabic

definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 61.8%
male: 73.7%
female: 50.2% (1995 est.)