President Yoweri Museveni is set to launch the National Population and Housing Census, scheduled to take place next year. The launch will take place at Kololo ceremonial grounds.
The National Population and Housing Census was last conducted in 2014. At that time, Uganda had a population of 34 million people. The census is carried out every 10 years, and this year’s exercise was expected to take place on August 24 and 25, but it was postponed to next year due to the delayed procurement of tablets.
UBOS needs 120000 tablets costing Shs132 billion to carry out the national census. After the census, 30000 tablets will be given to the National Identification Registration Authority (NIRA) for mass registration of people and verification of voters by the Electoral Commission.
Local governments will retain others to pick up data for community information systems. This will later be picked up by UBOS for the generation of statistics for better planning for the country.
Currently, Uganda is estimated to have 45 million people. The figures can only be verified after the national census. Currently, the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS)
Recently, Chris Mukiza, the Executive Director of UBOS, said mapping involves getting area boundaries and moving on, but now we are mapping every household and giving it a geo-code, and the output of that is that we shall have an interactive map on the tablets.
The national census will be conducted between May 10 and 19, 2024.
