Museveni to release census preliminary results on Thursday 

Mr Didacus Okoth, the spokesperson of the Uganda Bureau of Statistics, said all is set for the release of the preliminary results. 

“We are set to release the results and it is based on the census roadmap, which was launched by His Excellency the President on December 13, 2023, and he will give preliminary findings of the survey set to be done on Thursday,” Mr Okoth said in an interview yesterday

It is not clear if the result will reflect the true statistics of Uganda’s population. 

Some Ugandans claim they were not counted in the exercise.

Uganda conducts a national population and housing census every 10 years, which government officials say helps to guide planning, policy formulation, and programme implementation as well as monitoring development progress in line with the national goals and objectives. 

President Museveni, while launching the census last year, rallied Ugandans to embrace the exercise, which he said would form the foundation for better planning with the increasing population.

‘’These questions are very crucial so that the government can plan for you better because you cannot plan properly for people you don’t know,” the President said. 

This was the first digital census conducted in the country. According to Ubos, this allowed the team to tally the results instantly and officials at the headquarters were able to know how many people had been enrolled on a particular day by the close of business.