Fertility rate estimated at 5.9 children per woman in Uganda

A United Nations Agency report has revealed that an estimated two million more Ugandans will be living in urban centres by next year.

Owing to high fertility rate estimated at 5.9 children per woman and rising numbers of women of reproductive age, the UNICEF report revealed that 1.6 million babies would be added to Uganda’s populace by 2015, taking the number of children under five to seven million.

Meanwhile, Africans will account for a quarter of the world population in 35 years from now, the report has revealed.

Worldwide, Africa is the only region where the population is projected to keep increasing throughout the 21st century.

Currently there are 1.2 billion people in Africa, more than five times the population in 1950. By 2050, Africa’s population will double, to 2.4 billion and eventually reaching 4.2 billion by the end of the century.

Among the report’s most important findings is a massive shift in the world’s child population towards Africa.

Projections indicate that by 2050, around 40 per cent of all births, and about 40 per cent of all children, will be in Africa, up from about 10 per cent in 1950…

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