UGANDA
SHARTSI K. MUSHERURE
PAMOJA CRAFTWARE , OCTOBER 11, 2011
Uganda Country Facts
•East African Landlocked country:
•Kenya (East)
•Sudan (North)
•Dem. Rep of Congo (West)
•Tanzania (South)
Uganda Country Facts
•Government: Multiparty Democracy
•Independence Day from England: October
9, 1962
•President: Yoweri Kaguta Museveni
•Ruling Party: National Resistance Movement
Ref: CIA WORLD FACTBOOK (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ug.html)
Uganda Country Facts
AREA
Total: 241,038 sq km
Country comparison to the world: 81
Land: 197,100 sq km
Water: 43,938 sq km
Ref: CIA WORLD FACTBOOK (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ug.html)
Uganda Country Facts
•Population: 34,612,250 (July 2011 est.)
•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, higher death rates, lower population
growth rates, and changes in the distribution of
population by age and sex than would otherwise be
expected
•KAMPALA (capital) 1.535 million (2009)
•Life expectancy at birth: 48 years
•Adult literacy rate: 69 percent
Ref: CIA WORLD FACTBOOK (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ug.html)
Uganda Country Facts
Age structure
• 0-14 years: 49.9% (male 8,692,239/female
8,564,571)
• 15-64 years: 48.1% (male 8,383,548/female
8,255,473)
• 65 years and over: 2.1% (male 291,602/female
424,817) (2011 est.)
Ref: CIA WORLD FACTBOOK (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ug.html)
Uganda Country Facts
Health Facts
•Maternal mortality rate 430 deaths/100,000 live births
(2008)
•Infant mortality rate (live births) 62.47 per 1000
•Orphans, Children (0-17 yrs) orphaned by AIDS 940,000
•Orphans, Children (0-17) orphaned due to all causes 2
million
Ref: CIA WORLD FACTBOOK (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ug.html)
Uganda Country Facts
HIV/AIDS
Adult prevalence rate
•6.5% (2009 est.)
•country comparison to the world: 10
People living with HIV/AIDS
•1.2 million (2009 est.)
•country comparison to the world: 8
Deaths
•64,000 (2009 est.)
•country comparison to the world: 8
Ref: CIA WORLD FACTBOOK (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ug.html)
Uganda Country Facts
FUN FACTS
•Uganda is evergreen and landlocked
•Uganda has 11% of the birds species in the world
•Uganda and its neighbor Rwanda are the only countries
with mountain gorillas
•Ugandans top the world in alcohol consumption
•The River Nile begins in Uganda
Uganda Country Facts
MINNESOTA AND UGANDA
•Land O’Lakes assists with the Uganda Diary Cooperation in improving diary
production. http://www.idd.landolakes.com/PROJECTS/Africa/
•HealthPartners has assisted with the establishment of local health cooperatives. http://www.startribune.com/business/128208078.html
•Minnesota International Health Volunteers (WellShare) has worked for 28
years in the rural areas of western Uganda improving health behaviors.
http://www.wellshareinternational.org/where-we-work/around-the-world/uganda
•University of Minnesota has had a long relationship with Makerere University in
research and other collaborations related to Agriculture and Animal Husbandry
•Many local health and education professionals go to Uganda annually to
provide care and assistance wherever they can.
Mountain Gorillas
Bwindi Impenetrable Forest
LIONESS