Uganda Population

According to the CIA World Factbook, the Uganda population includes 32 million people (as compared to 3.8 million people in Oregon); 1 million people (3.125%) are living with aids. The US population includes 307 million people; 1.2 million people (0.391%) are living with aids. I was tempted to think only 3% of the population of Uganda is living with AIDS, that’s not too bad. But I had to remind myself that this rate is 10 times higher than in the United States. In reality any people living with AIDS are too many people.

I found that Uganda has the second highest birth rate in the world (first highest is Niger) but that their median age is only 15 years (37 years in the US). What is happening to all those children born in Uganda? I suspect that the median age will shift upward as time passes given that the dictatorship of Idi Amin during the 1970s and 1980s was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Ugandans and that they’re living in relative peace now.

“Rejoice that you participate in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed when his glory is revealed” (1 Peter 4:13).