Uganda

Women

Uganda ranks 131 out of 162 countries in the Gender Inequality Index, where a high rank equals high equality. Women should always be considered as a particularly vulnerable group though.

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Children

Uganda has a Workplace Index score of 5.2, a Marketplace Index score of 5.3 and a Community and Environment Index score of 5.9 in the Children’s Rights and Business Atlas, where countries receive scores between 0 and 10. A score closer to 0 reflects a need for basic children’s rights due diligence, while a higher score reflects a need for enhanced or heightened due diligence. Children should always be considered as a particularly vulnerable group though. 

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Persons with Disabilities

Due to differences in data collection and definitions it is difficult to compare countries on disability prevalence rates. Persons with disabilities should always be considered as a particularly vulnerable group though.

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Minorities and Indigenous Peoples

According to the World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples, Uganda is a country of very great ethnic, linguistic and religious diversity, whose roots lie in a complex early history of overlapping migrations and interactions. Gross abuses of human rights, with a considerable ethnic dimension, took place under the Amin, Obote and Okello regimes of the 1970s and 1980s. Although more recent years have seen a degree of comparative stability, the legacy of these conflicts remains a powerful mobilizing factor in Ugandan politics. Driving forces behind the conflicts have been complex and multi-faceted; economic, religious, ideological and regional aspects have all been significant. In addition to the unstable and overlapping nature of ethnic categories, conflicts have themselves featured a variety of complex alliances. The main minorities and indigenous peoples in Uganda include Baganda (16.5 %), Banyankore (Bahima and Bairu) (9.6 %), Basoga (8.8 %), Bakiga (7.1 %), Iteso (7.0 %), Langi (6.3 %), Banyarwanda (Bahutu, Batutsi and Batwa – the latter also listed here separately) (1.6 %), Acholi (4.4 %), Bagisu (4.9 %) and Lugbara (3.3 %), Batoro (2.4 %), Bunyoro (2.8 %, though Bunyoro have challenged this figure), Alur (2.6 %), Bagwere (1.8 %), Bakonzo (2.5 %), Jopadhola (1.4 %), Karamojong (1.1 %), Barundi (0.3 %), Basongora (0.05 %) and Batwa (0.02 %). The main languages are English (official), numerous local languages and Swahili (used among some communities and especially those bordering Kenya and Sudan). The main religions are Roman Catholics (39.3 %), Anglicans (32.0 %), Islam (13.7 %), Pentecostals (11.1 %), Seventh Day Adventists (1.5 %), indigenous beliefs (0.1 %) and others including Baptists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Jews and Baha’i.

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Migrant Workers​

According to the ILO Global Estimates on International Migrant Workers, migrant workers as a proportion of all workers is 3 % in the subregion Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Persons in Armed Conflict

Uganda ranks 24 out of 179 countries in the Fragile States Index, where a high rank equals high fragility. For monthly crisis updates, check out CrisisWatch.