Despite various government efforts towards achieving economic growth, reforms and poverty reduction, income inequality and poverty have remained widespread in Uganda. The country has the third highest level of inequality in East Africa, trailing only South Sudan and Rwanda, and more than 16.36 million Ugandans live in abject poverty
The report adds that another 10% (3.6m Ugandans) of Uganda’s population composed of the poorest only won 2.5% (about Shs2.4trn) of the country’s national income. Although the number of Ugandans living below the poverty line has declined to 19.7% in 2014, down from 56% in 1992, the report notes that income inequality has instead increased.
and more pronounced inequality. 1. An overview of Uganda’s poverty and income inequality parameters 1.1.Uganda’s poverty indicators and dynamics – links to inequality Ugandas most recent Poverty Status Report (2014)4 estimates that absolute poverty declined from 56.4 in 1992/93 to 19.7 percent in 2012/13.
However, income inequality remains high across the country, as evidence by a Gini coefficient of 38.5 in 2013. Economic growth has benefitted the central and western regions more than the relatively isolated northern and eastern regions. Of the total population living below the national
The paper also examines the drivers of income inequality and finds that education remains the key determinant of income inequality. At the same time, income differences between regions are ... III) conducted by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBoS) and 2009/10 re-survey—the panel followed households. The UNHS III survey covered 7,421 ...
Income inequality continues to be a challenge in Uganda with just 1 percent of the country’s working population aged between 16 and 65 years earning more than Shs1m, according to a Bank of ...
For the past two decades the degree of inequality in Uganda has been variable, mostly on the increase. By 2009, the country’s richest 10 percent earned 2.3 times more than the poorest 40 percent. While some progress may have been made in reducing income poverty during this same period, existing figures mask a lot of poverty dynamics and characteristics. With a very low poverty line an ...
World Bank, Poverty and Inequality Platform. Data are based on primary household survey data obtained from government statistical agencies and World Bank country departments. Data for high-income economies are mostly from the Luxembourg Income Study database. For more information and methodology, please see pip.worldbank.org.
This year, in the document, Regional Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa, it was disclosed that Uganda is a low-income country. Its average yearly per capita gross income has been estimated at $1,145 [Shs 4.2 million] for the years 2020–2023 by the World Bank. The dossier noted that low-income countries increasingly rely on domestic debt which ...
In addition, there is a notable reduction in income inequality in the central, eastern and western regions while there is an increase in income inequality in the northern region of Uganda (UNHS ...
It is a score between 0 and 100. World Economics has inverted the source index data so that 0 represents very high inequality levels and 100 represents perfect equality. Perfect equality means a country's total income is shared equally among its residents, whereas perfect inequality means a country's total income is owned by a single individual.
Uganda: Gini income inequality index: The latest value from 2019 is 42.7 index points, a decline from 42.8 index points in 2016. In comparison, the world average is 34.98 index points, based on data from 76 countries. Historically, the average for Uganda from 1989 to 2019 is 42.66 index points. The minimum value, 39 index points, was reached in 1996 while the maximum of 45.2 index points was ...
1. Introduction. This paper investigates the long- and short-run relationship between income inequality and the shadow economy Footnote 1 in Uganda. Using data that cover the period from 1991 to 2017, this paper applies the autoregressive distributed lag bounds (ARDL) testing approach to cointegration to examine whether changes in income inequality result into changes in the size of the shadow ...
Between 2013 and 2017, the number of people living in poverty in Uganda increased from 6.7 million to 10 million. 10 %: Between 1996 and 2012 the richest 10 percent of the population increased their share of national income from 29.9 percent to 35.7 percent, while the share of the poorest 10 percent decreased from 3.2 percent to 2.5 percent. 80 %
The Finance Ministry also noted that two thirds of Ugandans had lost at least some income due to the Covid-19 crisis. It was obvious that things would be challenging. In June 2020, the Uganda office of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) prepared a report on what impacts the novel virus was likely to have. ... Statistics are not ...
