Uganda People are the native Africans and they constitute a population of 22,167,195 approximately. The demographics reveal that 51% of the male and female are in the age group of 0-14 years whereas 47% male and female are in the age group of 15- 16 years. Remaining 2% of the population constitutes of both male and female in the age group of 65 years. The population growth rate is approximately 2.85%. The infant mortality rate of the
Uganda people is 92.86 death/1000 live births.
The Ethnic community of
Uganda People consists mainly of 17% Baganda, 12% Basoga, 8% Iteso, 6% Rwanda and the rest are the insignificant and non-African groups.
People of Uganda follows religions like Roman Catholic, Protestants and Muslims mainly and the rest are the followers of indigenous beliefs. The
Uganda people follows English as their official language and the second most widely used language is Ganda or Luganda. It is the native language of Uganda. Other native languages are Niger- Congo languages, Nilo -Saharan languages, Arabic and Swahili.
Traditional and native
Uganda people are known as Nyankore of Uganda and they form the third largest ethnic group of Uganda. Nyankore occupy the south western part of the country. The lifestyle of the
Nyankore is usually traditional and they revels the influence of the Nilotic root very prominently in their lifestyle and they are very part of the
Uganda culture.
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