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People
33,398,682
country comparison to the world: 
37
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 (July 2010 est.)
0-14 years: 50% (male 8,152,830/female 8,034,366)
15-64 years: 47.9% (male 7,789,209/female 7,703,143)
65 years and over: 2.1% (male 286,693/female 403,317) (2010 est.)
total: 15 years
male: 14.9 years
female: 15.1 years (2010 est.)
3.563% (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 2
47.55 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 2
11.9 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 32
-0.02 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 120
urban population: 13% of total population (2008)
rate of urbanization: 4.4% annual rate of change (2005-10 est.)
at birth: 1.03 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.01 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.01 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.7 male(s)/female
total population: 1.01 male(s)/female (2010 est.)
total: 63.7 deaths/1,000 live births
country comparison to the world: 28
male: 67.31 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 59.98 deaths/1,000 live births (2010 est.)
total population: 52.98 years
country comparison to the world: 205
male: 51.92 years
female: 54.07 years (2010 est.)
6.73 children born/woman (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 2
5.4% (2007 est.)
country comparison to the world: 14
940,000 (2007 est.)
country comparison to the world: 14
77,000 (2007 est.)
country comparison to the world: 9
degree of risk: very high
food or waterborne diseases: bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever
vectorborne diseases: malaria, plague, and African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness)
water contact disease: schistosomiasis
animal contact disease: rabies (2009)
noun: Ugandan(s)
adjective: Ugandan
Baganda 16.9%, Banyakole 9.5%, Basoga 8.4%, Bakiga 6.9%, Iteso 6.4%, Langi 6.1%, Acholi 4.7%, Bagisu 4.6%, Lugbara 4.2%, Bunyoro 2.7%, other 29.6% (2002 census)
Roman Catholic 41.9%, Protestant 42% (Anglican 35.9%, Pentecostal 4.6%, Seventh Day Adventist 1.5%), Muslim 12.1%, other 3.1%, none 0.9% (2002 census)
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: 66.8%
male: 76.8%
female: 57.7% (2002 census)
total: 10 years
male: 11 years
female: 10 years (2008)
3.3% of GDP (2009)
country comparison to the world: 139
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