One in every 78 babies born in the world today is born in Uganda. Uganda has about 1,700,000 births a year, around 1.3% of all births worldwide.

Births per year
1,700,000
Share of world births
1.3%
Birth odds
1/78
Life expectancy
63 years
Risk of dying before age 5
4.0%
Income per person, PPP
$2,900
Children per woman
4.4
Urban population
26%

Life expectancy in Uganda is 63 years, which is 10 years shorter than the world average.

Of every 1,000 babies born here, about 40 do not reach their fifth birthday. That is 1.1 times the world average.

Income per person is about $2,900 in purchasing power. That is only 13% of the world average.

On average a woman has 4.4 children in her lifetime. The world average is 2.3.

About 26% of the population lives in cities. A baby born here has roughly a 74% chance of being born in the countryside.

Religious makeup

  • Christianity84%
  • Islam14%

Sample names given to people born in this country in the game

Baraka · Juma · Abebe · Musa · Amani · Neema · Tigist · Zawadi

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Values are rounded approximations. Sources: UN World Population Prospects 2024, World Bank WDI, Pew Research Center 2020.