Uganda

Interesting Facts About Uganda

• Uganda has the lowest median age in the world at just 15 years, with 49.5% of the population under age 18
• The population nearly quintupled from 9.5 million in 1969 to 45.9 million in 2024
• Swahili was approved as Uganda's second official national language in 2005, joining English
• The Catholic Church is the largest religious group at 39.3% of the population, followed by the Anglican Church of Uganda at 32%
• Evangelical, Pentecostal, and Born-Again churches showed the most religious growth, rising from 4.7% in 2002 to 11.1% in 2018
• Uganda hosted over 1.4 million refugees in August 2021, with the majority coming from South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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