The long awaited day has finally come to pass, the results from the May 2024 Census activity have been officially released by President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni.
In his address, he said the results of the 2024 national population census carried out by Uganda Bureau of Statistics have vindicated NRM’s ideology on the development of the country.
While speaking following the release of the preliminary results at Kampala Serena Hotel today morning President Museveni said when the NRM had just come to power, there were efforts by the west to introduce a number of ideas including birth control methods that he said he dismissed.
The President joked that at the age of 26 as he mobilized colleagues to go the bush to fight, he was being referred to as Mzee since he looked old.
According to the President, since life has improved, Ugandans no longer want to give birth to many children since this means they will have to dip into their pockets to feed them, noting that this was the original idea that the NRM suggested to the West as they wanted to introduce birth control methods and explained this is a natural way to control the birth rate of the country other than other methods.
He added that improving medical system and introduction of universal education have also proved a point in improving the status of the population.
Meanwhile the Uganda Bureau of Statistics has announced that Uganda’s population has hit the 45 million mark.
While speaking during the release of the 2024 census preliminary results, the Census Commissioner Dr Chris Mukiza said that they covered 11 million households which is an increase from the 7.2 million households covered in 2014.
Dr Mukiza revealed that Uganda’s population is now 45.9 million up from 34.6 million in 2014 and this means there is an increase by 11.3 million in the last 10 years.
The preliminary results show that youths now account for 22.7% of Uganda’s population while the elderly are at 5% and this was the first digital census that Uganda has ever held as enumerators for the first time used tablets to fill the information.
He said that it was also the 11th census to be conducted in Uganda, with first one in 1911 and sixth post-independence and had five sets of questionnaires for households, institutions, accommodation facilities like hotels, floating population and community.