Western Nilotic language groups include the Acholi, Langi, Alur, and several smaller ethnic groups. Together they comprise about 15% of the population. Most of western Nilotic languages in Uganda are classified as Low Nilotic, and are closely related to the language of the Luo in Kenya.
Education Statistics
Literacy rate in Uganda is 78.4% The system of education in Uganda has a structure of 7 years of primary education, 6 years of secondary education(divided into 4 years of lower secondary and 2 years of upper secondary school), and 3 to 5 years of post-secondary education. The present system has existed since the early 1960s.
Life Expectancy
The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Uganda was 282.81 as of 2014. As the graph below shows, over the past 54 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 527.09 in 1997 and a minimum value of 282.81 in 2014. Definition: Adult mortality rate is the probability of dying between the ages of 15 and 60--that is, the probability of a 15-year-old dying before reaching age 60, if subject to age-specific mortality rates of the specified year between those ages. Source: (1) United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects. (2) University of California, Berkeley, and Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. Human Mortality Database. The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in Uganda was 346.13 as of 2014. As the graph below shows, over the past 54 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 591.27 in 1997 and a minimum value of 346.13 in 2014. Definition: Adult mortality rate is the probability of dying between the ages of 15 and 60--that is, the probability of a 15-year-old dying before reaching age 60, if subject to age-specific mortality rates of the specified year between those ages. Source: (1) United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects. (2) University of California, Berkeley, and Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. Human Mortality Database.
10.69 deaths/1,000 population (2015) · Ranked 36th in the world