“Analysis of trends and determinans fertility in Uganda”.

Atwiine Johnson. (Undergraduate Student):
Bachelor of Science in Population Studies, Makerere University
Email. johphia@yahoo.com
Uganda falls within the sub-Saharan Africa region and characteristically as her counterparts still among the poorest Countries in the world. Apart from being among the poorest Counties Uganda has one of the fastest and highest growing Population in the world. In fact Previous and most recent indicators show that fertility has been high and constant for several decades. What is equally important and unique to Uganda is the very fact that the biggest proportion of the country’s population is dominated by children constituting about 52% of the total population which depicts a momentum for further population growth. This study examines the underlying factors responsible for this high fertility and their interrelationships as well as the demographic implications of such trends. The study involves analysis of the 2011 Uganda Demographic and Health Survey (UDHS, 2011) and with some specific references to previous UDHS data sets especially those of 2006, 2000 and 1995 to depict Uganda’s Fertility trends very well. Preliminary findings show that Uganda’s Total fertility rate (TFR) stands at 6.2 children per woman; General Fertility Rate (GFR) is 217 children per 1000 women and a high Crude Birth Rate