UGANDA BUREAU OF STATISTICS

INTERNATIONAL LABOUR DAY

CELEBRATIONS –
MONDAY, MAY 01, 2023, NAMUTUMBA DISTRICT

NATIONAL THEME:

PROMOTING POSITIVE WORK CULTURE AND ETHICS:

A prerequisite for increased investment, employment
opportunities and household incomes
 THE REPUBLIC OF UGANDA

H.E Gen. Yoweri Tibuhaburwa

Kaguta Museveni,
PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC
OF UGANDA

CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE
The Board of Directors, Management the world at large in the celebration,
and Staff of the Uganda Bureau of we take the honour to share some of
Statistics congratulate His Excellency the the statistics that help appreciate the
President of the Republic of Uganda Gen. status and contribution of workers in the
Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni, transformation process of our country.
the people of Uganda and the entire We remain committed to delivering
workers fraternity on this occasion of on our mandate of producing and
celebrating the International Labour Day. disseminating quality official statistics
for national development.
As we join the rest of the country and

Albert Byamugisha (PhD) Chris N. Mukiza (PhD)

UBOS, Board Chairman Executive Director

Long live Your Excellency; long live the Workers of Uganda!

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IN THIS BULLETIN...
UGANDA’S POPULATION AT A GLANCE 4
WORKING AGE POPULATION 6
FORMS OF WORK 8
POPULATION IN EMPLOYMENT 12
INDUSTRY AND SECTOR OF EMPLOYMENT 15
LABOUR UNDER-UTILIZATION 17
EDUCATION MISMATCH 20
INFORMAL EMPLOYMENT 21
INFORMAL SECTOR 23
LABOUR FORCE PARTICIPATION RATE 25
DECENT WORK INDICATORS 26
VIOLENCE AT WORKPLACE 28
DISABILITY FRIENDLY WORKPLACE 29
UNPAID WORK 31
YOUTH TRANSITION 33
CHILD LABOUR 35
EARNINGS FROM PAID EMPLOYMENT ON MAIN JOB 37
HOUSEHOLD INCOME 39

UBOS CELEBRATES THE WORKERS OF UGANDA

At the national level, the theme earmarked for the International Labour
day celebrations i.e. “PROMOTING POSITIVE WORK CULTURE AND ETHICS:
A prerequisite for increased investment, employment opportunities and
household incomes” is cognizant of the importance of sustainable
employment driven by value laden innovations from the grassroots, as
a way of buttressing the economic interventions by the government
of Uganda. The day is also celebrated to heighten both national and
international consciousness, on the importance of promoting and
protecting the rights of workers.

It is therefore our pleasure to share with you the selected statistical

indicators across sectors highlighting the contribution of the workers’
movement to the national development agenda.

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 UGANDA’S POPULATION AT A GLANCE
• Uganda’s population has 73,100 persons as of
grown from 5 million persons in May -2023.
1948 to 45.6 million persons as • Distribution of population by
of May 2023. age-group shows that there
o Females account are more male children aged
for 50.8% of the total less than 19 years compared
population and males to females; thereafter, females
49.2%. dominate from age group 20-
o Wakiso district remains 24 years and above
the most populated • About 8 out of every 10 persons
with a projected is less than 35 years of age
population of 3.5 • There are a total of about
million persons as of 1.1million persons aged 65
May 2023, followed by years and above, females are
Kampala City with 1.7 the majority (56.6%) compared
million persons. to males (43.4%)
o Obongi district has • Only 0.4% of the population
the least population, are aged 80 years and above,
projected at 52,300 and about 3 out of every 5 of
persons, followed by them are females.
Karenga district with

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Table 01: Population by Age Group as of May - 2023
Age group Male Female Total Percent by Age group
0-4 3,821,300 3,729,200 7,550,500 16.6
5-9 3,407,600 3,293,500 6,701,100 14.7
10-14 2,985,900 2,800,500 5,786,400 12.7
15-19 2,700,900 2,613,200 5,314,100 11.7
20-24 2,294,300 2,325,300 4,619,600 10.1
25-29 1,744,700 1,915,700 3,660,400 8
30-34 1,313,100 1,611,800 2,924,900 6.4
35-39 1,037,900 1,219,900 2,257,800 5
40-44 814,400 941,500 1,755,900 3.9
45-49 650,600 729,200 1,379,800 3
50-54 534,600 573,600 1,108,200 2.4
55-59 383,300 416,000 799,300 1.8
60-64 296,300 362,800 659,100 1.4
65-69 170,600 203,800 374,400 0.8
70-74 135,600 178,900 314,500 0.7
75-79 79,600 103,700 183,300 0.4
80+ 81,600 122,400 204,000 0.4
Total 22,452,300 23,141,000 45,593,300 100

Source: UBOS Population Projections Reports, 2015 - 2050

1948 – 5 Million

1969 – 9.5 Million

1986 – 14.7 Million 1991 – 16.7 Million

2002 – 24.2 Million

2023 (May) – 45.6 Million 2014 – 34.6 Million

Source: UBOS Population Projections

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 WORKING AGE POPULATION
The Working Age Population (WAP) and provision of services for others or
is a measure of the total number of own final use.
potential workers within the economy.
The international WAP as per the • Overall, 23.5 million (55%) of the
International Labour Organisation population are of working age.
(ILO) is 15 years and above.
• Of the WAP, 87% (20.5 million)
However, given the differences
are working, that is, engaged
in socio-economic, cultural and
in the production of goods and
demographic characteristics among
services for others or for own final
countries, it was recommended that
use.
each country sets the age range for
its WAP. Uganda’s age-range was • Though there are more of the
set at 14-64 years. On the other hand, females (56%) than males (54%)
working population is the population in the WAP, the proportion of
within the working age that is working males (90%) is higher
engaged in the production of goods than for working females (85%).

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Table 02:Distribution of working age (14-64 years) and working population (%)
Total Working Age Population (WAP) Working Population
Background
Population
Number Percent to Number Percent to
characteristics
(‘millions)
(‘millions) Total Population (‘millions) WAP
Sex
Male 21.1 11.4 54.0 10.2 89.7
Female 21.8 12.1 55.5 10.3 84.8
Residence
Urban 12.6 7.6 60.0 14.4 90.3
Rural 30.2 15.9 52.6 6.1 80.6
Sub-regions
Kampala 1.7 1.1 64.3 0.8 73.7
Buganda South 5.7 3.3 57.9 2.4 73.2
Buganda North 4.5 2.4 54.3 2.2 89.0
Busoga 4.4 2.3 53.1 2.1 89.6
Bukedi 2.3 1.3 55.0 1.0 83.0
Elgon 2.2 1.2 54.7 1.1 92.6
Teso 2.3 1.2 52.6 1.1 91.5
Karamoja 1.2 0.5 44.2 0.5 94.1
Lango 2.5 1.4 55.2 1.3 92.4
Acholi 1.8 1.0 53.5 0.9 92.0
West Nile 3.3 1.8 54.9 1.7 91.9
Bunyoro 2.8 1.5 53.5 1.4 92.5
Tooro 3.2 1.7 52.1 1.5 89.2
Ankole 3.4 1.9 56.3 1.7 90.9
Kigezi 1.5 0.9 55.4 0.8 90.2

Uganda 42.9 23.5 54.8 20.5 7.2

Source: National Labour Force Survey (NLFS) Report – 2021

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 FORMS OF WORK
There are five mutually exclusive forms of work
distinguished on the basis of the intended destination of
the production (for own final use; or for use by others, i.e.
other economic units) and the nature of the transaction
(i.e. monetary or non-monetary transactions, and
transfers). They include:

i. Employment work comprising work performed for

others in exchange for pay or profit;
ii. Own use production work comprising production of
goods and services for own final use
iii. Unpaid trainee work comprising work performed
for others without pay to acquire workplace
experience or skills;
iv. Volunteer work comprising non-compulsory work
performed for others without pay;
v. Other work activities (not defined in this resolution).

• The majority of the working

population are in employment
(49%) followed by subsistence
agriculture (40%) with the least
proportion (0.3%) in doing
volunteer work.

• Of the females who

40% are working, 40% are in
46% employment while 46% are
in subsistence agriculture.
Compared to their male
counterparts, 58% are in
employment, while 34% are
in subsistence agriculture.

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• Of the youths (18 – 30 years)
who are working, 49% are in
employment

• Regional differentials showed that whereas Kampala has the highest

proportion (84%) of the working population in employment, the
least proportion (1%) in subsistence agriculture was from Kampala.
Relatedly whereas Elgon sub-region has the highest percentage
(63%) of its working population in subsistence agriculture, the sub
region has the least percentage (28%) in employment

• Overall, majority of those persons without education or those who

have attained only some primary schooling (53%) are engaged
in subsistence agriculture while majority of those who completed
primary (55%) and other higher education levels are mostly in paid
employment. Thus, the higher the education level, the higher the
proportion in employment.

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Table 03: Distribution of working population by forms of work (%)
Other
Subsistence Unpaid Volunteer
Background Characteristics Employment subsistence Total
agriculture only trainee work
work*

Sex            
Male 57.8 34.4 0.5 0.3 7 100
Female 39.8 45.9 0.2 0.2 13.8 100
Residence          
Rural 42.5 48.2 0.3 0.3 8.8 100
Urban 63.5 21.3 0.6 0.3 14.3 100
Special Age group          
18 to 30 years 49.1 38 0.7 0.3 11.9 100
15-24 years 34.7 45.5 0.9 0.3 18.6 100
15-35 years 46.2 39.7 0.6 0.2 13.3 100
Education level attained        
No education 41.3 53 0 0.2 5.4 100
Some Primary 46.1 47.1 0.1 0.1 6.6 100
Completed primary 54.9 38 0.3 0.5 6.3 100
Some Secondary 62.9 28.7 0.6 0.2 7.7 100
Completed Secondary 77.4 15.5 1.2 0.1 5.8 100
Post primary specialized training 71.4 22 0.5 0.7 5.4 100
Post-secondary specialized training 81.3 13.4 0.3 0.3 4.8 100
Degree and above 85.3 9.2 0.1 1.4 3.9 100
Sub-region          
Kampala 83.5 1.4 1.2 0.1 13.8 100
Buganda South 62.1 24.6 1.1 0.5 11.7 100
Buganda North 59.7 29.1 0.1 0.1 10.9 100
Busoga 39.2 48.8 0.2 0.2 11.5 100
Bukedi 28.1 59.3 0.2 0.3 12.1 100
Elgon 28.3 62.5 0.2 0.2 8.7 100
Teso 46.8 46.7 0.3 0.3 5.9 100
Karamoja 62.7 33.2 0 0.4 3.7 100
Lango 41.3 49.7 0.2 0.2 8.6 100
Acholi 55.1 38.4 0.1 0.3 6.1 100
West Nile 40.6 46.4 0.2 0.5 12.4 100
Bunyoro 49.2 38.5 0.4 0.1 11.6 100
Toro 45.7 43.7 0.5 0.1 10 100
Ankole 50.1 40.7 0 0.3 8.9 100
Kigezi 42.1 41.9 0.5 0.2 15.4 100
National 48.8 40.2 0.4 0.3 10.4 100

Number ‘000 9,996 8,224 74 55 2,124 20,485

*Other subsistence work includes economic activities classified in the SNA but undertaken for own final use by the
household or individual e.g., brick making to build one’s own house.
Source: National Labour Force Survey (NLFS) Report – 2021

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• Comparing the trends, the percentage of persons in employment
increased from 44% in 2019/20 to 49% in 2021

• The percentage of households engaged in subsistence agriculture

remained stagnant at 40% in 2019/20 and 2021

Figure 01: Comparison in forms of work for the working population

Source: National Labour Force Survey (NLFS) Report – 2021

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 POPULATION IN EMPLOYMENT
Persons in employment refer to all individuals of working age who, during the
reference period are engaged in any activity to produce goods or provide
services for pay or profit. This implies that work is done as part of a transaction
in exchange for payment in form of wages or salaries for time worked or work
done or in the form of profits derived from the goods produced and services
provided through market transactions.

The status in employment of workers in Uganda can be categorised as follow1:

INDEPENDENT WORKERS
These are workers who own the economic unit for which they work and
control its activities. They include;

Employers

Employers in corporations
Employers in household market enterprises

Independent workers without employees

Owner-operators of corporations
without employees.

Own-account workers in
household market enterprises
without employees.

1
Resolutions of the 20th International Conference of Labour Statisticians

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 DEPENDENT WORKERS
These are workers who do not have complete authority or control over the
economic unit for which they work. If they are in employment for profit they
have no employees, and do not make the most important decisions about
the activities of the economic unit for which they work. They include;

Dependent contractors

Dependent contractors

Employees

Permanent employees.

Fixed-term employees.

Short-term and casual employees.

Paid apprentices, trainees and interns.

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 Contributing family workers

Contributing family workers.

• 47% of the employed population are independent workers without

employees. These are followed by employees accounting for 34% of the
population in employment; a similar pattern by sex and residence with
the exception of urban residents who are mainly employees (44%).

• Trend analysis shows that the proportion of own account workers i.e
‘Independent workers without employees’ increased from 42% in 2019/20
to 47% in 2021.

• The percentage of employers remains lowest of the population in

employment though it increased from 6% in 2019/20 to 10% in 2021.
Impliedly, there is need to promote investment (local and foreign) for job
creation and encourage job creators as opposed to job seekers.

Figure 02: Comparison of status in employment, 2019/20 and 2021 (%)

Source: National Labour Force Survey (NLFS) Report – 2021

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 INDUSTRY AND SECTOR OF EMPLOYMENT
• The highest proportion of employed persons was engaged in Agriculture,
forestry and fishing (36%) followed by those in Trade (23%).

• Employment in the trade, Transport and Hotels services is increasing

whereas employment in agriculture, education and social work is
reducing overtime.

Table 04: Distribution of the Population in employment by Industry (%)

Industry of main job NLFS 2016/17 UNHS 2019/20 NLFS 2021
Agriculture, forestry and fishing 40.9 39.8 35.9
Trade 18.1 20.2 22.8
Manufacturing 9.8 8.3 8.3
Transport and storage 4.3 5.7 6.2
Hotels, restaurant eating places 3.5 3.3 4.1
Activities of household employers 1.6 1.8 2.5
Education 6.1 5.1 3.9
Other service activities 3.3 4.3 3.0
Human health and social work activities 1.6 1.7 2.2
Construction 4.3 4.6 4.7
Public administration 1.3 1.4 2.2
Other Activities 5.2 3.8 4.0
Total 100 100 100
Source: National Labour Force Survey 2021

• The two major sectors of Uganda’s economy in terms of employment

include the Services sector and Agriculture, forestry and fishing. These
two combined, employ 84% of the total employed population as of
2021, with more persons likely to be employed in the services sector.

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Figure 03: Trend in Sector of Employment

Source: National Labour Force Survey 2021

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 LABOUR UNDER-UTILIZATION
Labour Under-utilization refers to mismatches between Labour supply and
demand. This in essence is the unmet need for employment. It comprises of
unemployed persons, potential Labour force and persons in employment
but with unmet need. Labour underutilization focuses on issues of insufficient
Labour absorption and gives information that is necessary in broader Labour
market monitoring.

The components of Labour underutilization include; the unemployment rate,

the combined rate of time-related underemployment and unemployment,
the Combined rate of unemployment and potential Labour Force as well as
the composite measure of Labour underutilization.

The current statistics from the National Labour Force (NLFS), 2021 show that:
• About 12% (1.4million people) of the population aged 14-64 years are
unemployed with a higher share among females (14%) compared to
males (10%).
• The Unemployment rate of the working age population in urban areas
of 16% is recorded slightly higher than that of rural residents (13%).
• Bukedi and Bunyoro sub regions have the highest unemployment
rate (25% and 17% respectively) and Kigezi sub region has the lowest
at 3%.
• Education attainment differentials show that the lowest
unemployment rate (11%) is among persons with no education and
those that completed primary while the highest is among persons
that completed secondary education, Post primary/secondary
specialized training and above (17%).

• Persons with disability have slightly lower unemployment rate (10%)

compared to those without disability (12%)

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Table 05: Unemployment Rate by Sex and other Selected Background
Characteristics, 2021
Background characteristics Unemployment rate (LU1)
Male Female Total
Residence
Rural 10.6 12.5 11.4
Urban 9.9 16.2 12.8
Sub region
Kampala 8.3 21.6 14.6
Buganda South 9.1 15.0 11.9
Buganda North 8.9 13.6 10.7
Busoga 8.6 10.0 9.1
Bukedi 25.0 23.9 24.7
Elgon 13.1 15.4 13.9
Teso 7.1 6.2 6.7
Karamoja 7.1 8.3 7.8
Lango 10.9 14.3 12.4
Acholi 10.4 9.6 10.0
West Nile 13.0 15.2 14.0
Bunyoro 14.4 21.5 17.3
Tooro 13.2 16.8 14.6
Ankole 7.9 9.1 8.4
Kigezi 1.8 3.9 2.5
Education attainment
No education 7.1 11.0 9.5
Some Primary 11.1 10.8 11.0
Completed primary 7.6 12.2 9.3
Some Secondary 8.5 17.2 12.1
Completed Secondary 12.8 17.0 14.1
Post primary/secondary specialized training 10.4 17.0 13.1
Not stated 2.3 1.7 2.2
Disability status (5+ years)
With a disability 10.0 10.8 10.3
Without a disability 10.4 14.3 12.0
Age group
14 - 17 16.8 13.0 15.1
18 - 30 13.5 20.4 16.5
31- 64 7.2 8.5 7.7
Special age group
15-24 16.8 21.8 19.0
15-35 12.8 17.5 14.9
National 10.4 14.1 11.9
Number (000) 684 669 1,353
Source: National Labour Force Survey(NLFS) 2021
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 • Overall, the unemployment rate stands at 12%, which reflects an
increase from the 9% recorded in 2019/20.
Figure 04: Trend in Unemployment Rate by Sex and residence

Source: National Labour Force Survey (NLFS), 2021

The composite measure of Labour Underutilisation is composed of the sum of

the population in time-related underemployment, unemployment and the
potential Labour force expressed as a proportion of the extended Labour
force.
• Labour underutilisation has increased over the years from 35% in
2016/17 to 42% in 2021.
• More proportion of females (50%) compared to males (35%) are
underutilised.
Figure 04: Trend in Composite measure of Labour underutilization

Source: National Labour Force Survey (NLFS), 2021

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 EDUCATION MISMATCH
Educational mismatch is defined as the discrepancy between the worker’s
level of education and the level of education which is required for the job in
the Labour market.
• About 43% of the persons in employment are under-educated for
the jobs they are holding, while 45% have education requirements
matching those on their main jobs.
• Persons residing in urban areas (51%) have education levels matching
their jobs while half of those residing in rural areas (51%) are under
educated.

Table 06: Education mismatch of the population in employment

by selected background characteristics
Background Matching Over Under Not Total
characteristics educated educated stated
Sex
Male 45.7 11.8 40.8 1.7 100
Female 42.9 10.5 45.9 0.7 100
Residence
Rural 40.4 7.9 50.6 1.1 100
Urban 51.0 16.3 31.0 1.6 100
Special age
group
15-24 47.1 10.8 41.9 0.2 100
18-30 47.8 14.0 37.8 0.3 100
15-35 47.0 13.4 38.9 0.7 100
Sector of
employment
Agriculture, 100
forestry and
fishing 37.0 8.1 54.1 0.8
Production 42.4 17.1 40.1 0.5 100
Services 49.9 11.7 36.6 1.8 100
National 44.6 11.2 42.9 1.3 100
Source: National Labour Force Survey (NLFS) 2021

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 INFORMAL EMPLOYMENT

Informal employment refers to cases where employment relationships are

by law or in practice, not subject to social protection (i.e., no provision for
pension or contribution to
National Social Security Fund) and no entitlement to paid annual leave
or paid sick leave. Statistics on informality are key to assessing the quality
of employment in an economy. This indicator therefore presents the
share of employment which is classified as informal employment in the
total economy, and separately in agriculture and in non-agriculture.
• 92% of the employed population is engaged in informal
employment including agriculture; a slight decrease from
93% reported in 2019/20.
• on the other hand; 88% of the employed population is
engaged in informal employment excluding those in the
agricultural sector; a similar proportion to that recorded
in 2019/20
• Overall, informality is high though reducing at a slow rate.

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Table: 07 Proportion of employed population in informal employment
by background characteristics, (%)
Background Informal employment Informal employment
characteristics including agriculture excluding agriculture
NLFS UNHS NLFS NLFS UNHS NLFS
2016/17 2019/20 2021 2016/17 2019/20 2021
Sex
Male 90.2 91.5 90.3 84.5 86.5 85.6
Female 91.3 94.2 94.0 85.6 90.6 91.2
Residence
Rural 95.0 95.4 93.8 89.6 91.2 89.0
Urban 82.5 87.5 88.9 80.5 84.9 86.8
Special age group
15-24 97.4 97.8 97.3 95.7 96.2 95.8
18-30 93.8 95.4 94.2 90.5 92.9 91.8
15-35 92.0 94.3 93.8 95.7 96.2 95.8
Education level
attained
No education 98.2 99.0 98.5 95.0 98.0 97.8
Some Primary 97.7 98.5 97.9 94.1 97.4 96.8
Completed primary 94.3 98.6 97.2 86.2 97.5 95.8
Some Secondary 90.8 89.2 93.4 64.6 85.3 91.7
Completed Secondary 77.6 92.5 86.6 49.5 89.9 84.2
Post primary/secondary 61.4 71.3 67.4
67.7 63.4
specialized training 95.0
National 90.7 92.6 91.9 85.0 88.2 87.9

Number (‘000) 8,106 7,671 9,182 4,495 4,417 5,629

Source: National Labour Force Survey (NLFS) 2021

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 INFORMAL SECTOR
Informal sector includes all workers in unincorporated enterprises that produce
at least partly for the market though may not be formally registered. It excludes
households that produce exclusively for own final use, subsistence agriculture,
construction of own dwellings among others. In addition, Informal Enterprises
are not always registered under Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB)
as commercial / business establishments or by the Uganda Revenue Authority
(URA) for Value added tax / income tax returns. As a result, these enterprises
do not always keep complete books of accounts.
• 56% of the employed population work in the informal sector.
• More employed persons in the rural (60%) than urban (52%) areas work in
the informal sector.
• Impliedly, the higher the level of education attained, the less likely one is
to work in the informal sector.

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Table 08: Proportion of employed population in the formal sector, informal
sector and household units by selected characteristics, (%)
Background characteristics Works Works in Works in Total
informal informal household
sector sector
Sex
Male 14.4 59.0 26.6 100
Female 8.8 52.1 39.1 100
Residence
Rural 11.1 52.0 36.9 100
Urban 13.2 60.3 26.5 100
Special age group
15-24 4.2 66.3 29.5 100
18-30 8.2 61.9 29.9 100
15-35 9.0 59.2 31.8 100
Disability type
With a disability 8.9 48.7 42.4 100
Without a disability 12.3 56.6 31.1 100
Education level attained
No education 2.2 35.1 62.6 100
Some Primary 3.2 51.5 45.3 100
Completed primary 4.2 58.5 37.3 100
Some Secondary 8.4 62.1 29.5 100
Completed Secondary 15.8 64.1 20.1 100
Post primary specialized 26.1 56.5 17.3 100
training
Post-secondary specialized 36.0 55.3 8.8 100
training
Degree+ 44.6 46.0 9.4 100
National 12.1 56.1 31.7 100
Number ‘000 777 3,596 2,032 6,405
Source: National Labour Force Survey (NLFS) 2021

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 LABOUR FORCE PARTICIPATION RATE
Labour Force Participation Rate (LFPR) is the population in the Labour force
(employed and unemployed) expressed as a percentage of the working age
population. It indicates the proportion of Working Age Population that is active
in the Labour market as either employed or actively looking for employment.
This indicator shows the relative size of the supply of Labour available for
production of market goods and services in the country.
• The LFPR reduced from 53 % 2016/17 to 48% in 2021.
• The male population have predominately higher LFPR recorded to
have reduced from 61% in 2016/17 to 58% in 2021.
• Looking at age composition, the active Labour market is mainly
comprised of the persons between 31-64 years, and is recorded at
59% 2021, a slight reduction from the 61% in 2016/17

Table 09: Trends in the Labour Force Participation Rate 2016 - 2021
Background NLFS 2016/17 UNHS 2019/20 NLFS 2021
Characteristics Male Female Total Male Female Total Male Female Total
Residence
Rural 55.7 39.5 47.4 48.2 29.8 38.7 53.1 33.9 43.3
Urban 76.1 58.4 66.6 61.0 43.8 51.8 68.4 50.2 58.7
Education attainment
No formal education 50.7 37.8 41.4 50.8 36.9 41.1 48.3 35.4 39.5
Some primary 63.6 46.2 54.1 43.5 28.6 35.7 59.6 37.6 47.2
Completed primary 73.5 49.7 62.3 54.3 33.5 43.9 68.3 41.9 55.0
Some secondary 80.3 65.8 73.4 49.3 31.4 40.2 73.9 51.9 63.0
Completed secondary 93.9 70.8 86.4 65.8 45.1 56.6 81.4 68.9 77.1
Post-primary/ secondary 91.1 86.5 89.1 78.6 61.5 71.5 85.5 74.0 80.5
specialized training and
above
Disability status
With Disability 62.0 47.0 53.8 47.2 34.1 40.5 59.6 35.5 42.1
Without Disability 61.9 44.9 53.1 52.2 33.9 42.7 58.5 39.6 48.8
Age Group
14-17 25.1 17.6 21.2 10.6 7.4 9.0 20.9 16.2 18.5
18-30 66.4 49.6 57.2 53.1 34.5 43.0 62.0 41.4 50.8
31-64 71.1 51.3 61.2 68.6 44.6 56.3 70.2 47.3 58.9
Special age group
15-24 49.5 36.7 42.7 29.8 20.8 25.1 41.8 30.2 35.7
15-35 61.6 45.9 53.3 47.2 31.2 38.8 58.5 39.6 48.8
National 61.1 44.8 52.6 51.8 34.0 42.5 57.9 39.3 48.3
Source: National Labour Force Survey (NLFS) 2021

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 DECENT WORK INDICATORS
Social protection

• Social protection is a set of interventions whose objective is to reduce social and

economic risk and vulnerability, and to alleviate extreme poverty and deprivation. Over
three-quarters of the population in paid employment (76%) do not contribute towards
any form of social protection

Table 10: Distribution of persons in paid employment by type of social security and selected
background characteristics, %
Background Employer
Characteristics Pays for Pays for Pays for None Don’t Total
NSSF other pension know
Provident
fund
Residence        
Rural 12.0 0.4 6.6 76.3 4.7 100
Urban 17.1 0.4 4.2 74.8 3.4 100
Sector of
employment
Agriculture, forestry 0.0 100
and fishing 2.0 0.1 96.2 1.7
Production 8.5 0.1 0.0 87.5 3.9 100
Services 20.6 0.6 8.8 65.0 4.9 100
Type of Institution
Public 33.3 1.5 29.8 24.8 10.7 100
Private 10.6 0.2 0.2 86.4 2.6 100
National 14.5 0.4 5.4 75.6 4.1 100

Employment benefits at the workplace

Rights at work is one of the

strategic pillars of decent work
agenda. A benefit is something
extra, such as money or goods
that is given to employees
because of their job in addition
to their salary
• overall, 27% of
employees receive any
workplace benefits with
the majority in services,
public and formal sector.

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Table 12: Distribution of persons in employment by type of workplace benefit and selected
background characteristics, %
Background characteristics Paid Paid Paid Entitled to Medical/ Any None
annual sick Maternity/ Pension/ Health of the of the
leave leave in Paternity Old age/ insurance benefits benefits
(holiday case of leave Retirement coverage
time) illness insurance
schemes
Sex
Male 19.2 25.2 19.8 17.1 20.0 26.8 72.6
Female 19.3 24.1 20.3 16.2 17.7 26.4 72.8
Residence              
Rural 17.1 23.9 20.2 19.0 20.1 25.1 73.9
Urban 21.4 25.9 19.8 14.6 18.6 28.4 71.3
Institution type              
Public 59.9 93.1 92.7 91.7 90.5 95.7 4.3
Private 10.6 10.3 4.4 0.8 4.1 12.1 87.8
Sector of employment              
Agriculture, forestry and 1.3 1.8 0.6 0.8 1.2 2.5 95.6
fishing
Production 5.8 8.5 4.9 2.2 5.7 9.2 90.1
Services 29.3 37.6 31.0 26.6 29.5 40.3 59.5
Nature of employment              
excluding agriculture
Formal employment 94.2 89.9 71.5 58.2 68.6 96.2 3.8
Informal employment 6.9 16.6 13.8 12.0 13.3 17.9 81.7
National 19.2 24.9 20.0 16.8 19.3 26.7 72.6
Number ‘000 652 845 679 572 657 913 2,486
Source: National Labour Force Survey (NLFS) 2021

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 VIOLENCE AT WORKPLACE
Violence at workplace denote any acts or threats at
the work site and may take a number of different forms
such as physical violence, harassment, intimidation, or
other threatening disruptive behave.
• Majority of workers (13%) experience financial
abuse (non-payment of wages/salaries/
benefits).

Table 13: Working population experiencing violence at place of work by form

of violence (%)
Background Constantly Repeatedly Physically Sexual Financial
Characteristic shouted at insulted assault abuse abuse

Sex          

Male 8.0 4.9 1.1 0.2 13.6

Female 5.8 3.3 0.4 1.6 11.2

Residence          

Rural 6.0 3.3 0.9 0.7 11.1

Urban 8.8 5.8 0.6 1.1 15.1

National 7.0 4.2 0.8 0.9 12.5

Source: National Labour Force Survey (NLFS) 2021

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 DISABILITY FRIENDLY WORKPLACE
A company’s culture should be inclusive of everyone including persons with
disabilities. Creating a disability friendly workplace entails eliminating barriers,
modification or replacement of equipment, training the employees with
special needs, providing the needed information and making the workplace
flexible for persons with varying disability types.
• Of the PWDs in employment, a third report that their work tasks fully
or partially accommodate for the difficulties they have.

Figure 05: PWDs whose work places and tasks have been modified to
account for the difficulty they have,

Source: National Labour Force Survey (NLFS) 2021

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 • More than half of persons with disability (65%) are comfortable that
employers are willing to hire PWDs irrespective of disability type with
the exception of those with remembering/concentration difficulties.

Figure 06: Perception of PWDs regarding willingness of employers to employ

PWDs and employees’ willingness to work with PWDs by selected background
characteristics, %

67
National
65
68
Multiple
65
66
Single
65 Employers willing to
51 work alongside PWDs
Remembering
50
65
Communicating
62
69
Selfcare
60 Employers willing to
71 hire PWDs
Walking
67
75
Hearing
73
64
Seeing
64

0 20 40 60 80

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 UNPAID WORK
Unpaid Work (UW) refers to activities performed by an individual for self-benefit or
for the benefit of others without any pay. The NLFS 2021 made deliberate effort to
recognize UW particularly unpaid care work and its contribution to the economy
by analysing, producing and disseminating statistics on UW by both women and
men, making any gender inequalities in UW visible. The survey categorized UW
into three broad categories namely;
• Subsistence agricultural work. This includes persons involved in
farming, fishing or forestry mainly for home consumption.
• Other Unpaid work. This includes production of goods within the
SNA production boundary e.g., making of handcraft, bricks for
home use
• Unpaid care work; is a critical, yet hidden dimension of our
well-being that provides essential domestic services within
households, for other households and to community members.
This work is carried out in the person’s own home and is unpaid.
Unpaid means the person carrying out the activity does not
receive a wage, and their work is therefore not included in GDP
calculations. Care means serving people and their well-being; it
includes both personal care and care-related activities, such as
cooking, cleaning and washing clothes. Work means it entails
expenditures of time and energy.
• More than a quarter (27million) of the persons aged 5years and above are
engaged in some form of unpaid work. Of these, 41% are in subsistence
agriculture followed by other unpaid work (39%) and Unpaid Care work
(21%).
a) More females (85%) than males (67%)were engaged in unpaid
care work

MALE FEMALE

67% 85%
Table 14: Proportion of persons engaged in Unpaid Work, (5+ years)
Background Subsistence Other Unpaid Total Proportion
characteristics agriculture unpaid Care work (5+yrs)
work (UCW) involved in
any unpaid
work
Sex
Male 42.6 40.3 17.1 100 66.6
Female 39.1 37.5 23.4 100 84.8
Residence
Rural 48.2 38.1 13.7 100 77.3
Urban 21.8 40.2 38.0 100 72.4
National 40.6 38.7 20.7 100 75.8
Number ‘000 11,123 10,606 5,675 27,405
Source: National Labour Force Survey (NLFS) 2021
 YOUTH TRANSITION
A youth may be defined in several contexts. A youth is defined as a person
aged between 15 and 24 (United Nations) or between 15 and 35 (African
Union) BUT in Uganda, a youth is a person aged 18 to 30 years.
Youth transitions refer to young people’s journeys from school to post school study
and on to employment. This is the time when young people experience rapid
biological, psychological and physical changes, as well as changing social and
economic situations, as they begin to take on the responsibilities of adulthood.
The International Labour Organization defines Labour market transition as the
passage of a young person from the end of schooling (or entry to first economic
activity) to the first stable or satisfactory job. The basic criteria for stability of any
employment are that it should be based on written contract of duration greater
than 12 months or oral agreement with likelihood of retention or has attained a
satisfactory temporary job judged on the respondent’s willingness to stay on the
job. The stages of transition to employment are categorized into three broad
groups namely; transited, in transition and not yet started transition. All current
students are counted among those “in transition”.

From the NLFS 2021 Report, Indicators on Youth Transition to Employment show
that:

• Over all, (48%) of the youth were in transition to employment while

(26%) had transited in employment.
• The transition to employment rate among the male youth (30%) is
higher than that of the female youth (19%).
• Transition into employment rates are also higher among the youth
who have completed post-secondary specialized training (40%) and
those residing in urban areas (29%).
Table 15: Youth transition to employment by selected background characteristics
Background Transited to In Transition Not Total
Characteristics employment transition Not started
Started
Sex
Male 30.0 47.8 14.6 7.5 100
Female 19.3 48.1 27.5 5.0 100
Residence
Rural 21.9 48.0 24.2 5.9 100
Urban 28.5 48.0 16.8 6.7 100
Education
Attainment
No Education level 29.8 36.8 32.2 1.2 100
attained
Some Primary 26.9 48.1 23.7 1.2 100
Completed 30.8 45.1 22.7 1.5 100
primary
Some Secondary 32.4 45.4 20.8 1.3 100
Completed 39.6 44.7 12.6 3.1 100
Secondary
Post primary 37.0 46.3 13.6 3.2 100
specialized training
Post-secondary 40.0 46.8 10.2 3.0 100
specialized training
Degree 34.9 47.0 10.1 8.0 100
Disability status 100
With Disability 16.6 38.7 39.2 5.5 100
Without Disability 24.5 48.4 20.9 6.2 100
Skills acquired
With trade or 41.1 46.3 9.5 3.1 100
technical skill and
specialization
With trade or 32.6 51.7 11.7 4.0 100
technical skill only
With specialization 32.9 48.4 12.3 6.4 100
only
None 22.3 47.9 23.6 6.1 100
National 24.1 48.0 21.6 6.2 100
Source: National Labour Force Survey (NLFS) 2021
 CHILD LABOUR
Child labour is defined in the Uganda National Child Labour Policy as work that
is hazardous or exploitative and threatens the health, safety, physical growth
and mental development of children and therefore constitutes an urgent policy
priority.

Children are child labourers if they are:

• Aged 5-11 years and they are at work in economic activity since they
are not expected to work.
• Aged 12-13 years doing work in economic activity other than ‘light
1
work’ or do work beyond 14 hours a week.
• Aged 14-17 years involved in hazardous forms of work or working for
an equivalent of 43 hours in a week or beyond.
Child labour is an obstacle to achieving equitable quality education and
promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all through Universal Primary
Education (UPE) and Universal Secondary Education (USE). Children forced out
of school into labour to help their families by supplementing available income
are denied the opportunity to acquire the knowledge and skills needed for a
more gainful future employment and may contribute to the proliferation of the
viscous cycle of poverty.

 The current statistics show that:

• Overall; 40% of children aged 5-17 years are involved in child labour
excluding household chores; an increase from 38% in 2019/20.
• Also, of the children aged 5-11 years, 58% are in child labour excluding
household chores, a slight increase from 55% in 2019/20.
• Sex differentials show that more males (41%) than females (38%) of children
aged 5-17 years are engaged in child laboure excluding household
chores.
• About 41% of the children aged 5-17 years currently attending school are
also engaged in child labour excluding household chores.
• Karamoja and Lango sub-regions have the highest proportion of children
aged 5-17 years in child labour excluding household chores i.e 56% and
52% respectively.

Figure 07: Comparison in child labour estimates excluding household chores

(%)

Source: National Labour Force Survey (NLFS) 2021

 EARNINGS FROM PAID EMPLOYMENT ON MAIN JOB
Earnings refer to the remuneration in cash or/and in kind paid to employees, as a
rule at regular intervals, for time worked or work done together with remuneration
for time not worked such as annual vacation and other paid leave or holidays.
It includes direct wages and salaries, remuneration for time not worked, bonuses
and gratuities, and payments in kind. It excludes Employers’ contributions to
social security and pension schemes, severance and termination pay (12th ICLS,
1973).

• The median monthly cash wage in Uganda is UGX 200,000. Males earn
on average Uganda shillings 250,000 compared to Uganda shillings
140,000 earned by females.

• The highest paying sector is services, Formal and public sector that pay
an average median monthly cash wage of UGX 300,000, UGX 612,000
and UGX 560,000 respectively.
Table 16: Median monthly earnings for persons in paid employment on the main job
by type of payment and selected background characteristics (‘000 UGX)
Background In-Cash In-Kind In-Cash & In-kind
characteristics Male Female Total Male Female Total Male Female Total
Residence                  
Rural 200 100 200 80 100 80 240 130 200
Urban 300 150 250 100 96 100 350 200 285
Sector of employment
Agriculture, forestry and fishing 100 60 80 72 30 70 110 64 100
Production 240 200 240 60 60 60 264 200 250
Services 350 180 300 100 100 100 400 224 320
Type of Institution
Private 200 100 170 75 96 80 240 150 200
Public 540 530 532 100 100 100 568 542 560
Nature of employment
Formal employment 580 600 600 140 120 120 630 610 612
Informal employment 250 140 200 72 96 80 270 190 240
Occupation
Professionals 568 480 535 150 80 120 600 500 550
Skilled agricultural, forestry 120 80 100 40 150 50 130 80 100
and fishery workers
Technicians and associate professionals 500 500 500 100 100 100 500 550 500
Craft and related trades workers 250 160 250 72 100 72 300 200 280
Plant and machine operators 250 300 250 80 60 80 280 360 280
and assemblers
Service and sales workers 250 150 200 90 80 80 300 160 240
Elementary occupations 120 80 100 60 100 80 150 100 122
National 250 140 200 90 96 96 300 180 250
Source: National Labour Force Survey (NLFS) 2021
 HOUSEHOLD INCOME
• overall, household farming or fishing is the main source of household
income /livelihood (48%).
• Higher percentages of households in urban areas have main source
of income being from household businesses and paid jobs (34%) and
(35%) respectively while 60% of households in the rural areas have
their main source of income from household farming or fishing

Table 17: Percentage distribution of households by main source of income in the

last 12 months and selected background characteristics
Background Households’ main source of income /livelihood (last 12 months) Total
characteristic
Household Household Paid job Support Others*
farming or business (other (held by a from other
fishing than farming household households
or fishing) member) in the
country

Sex of household head

Male 49.3 23.4 24.0 2.0 1.3 100
Female 43.5 28.1 16.3 8.4 3.8 100
Residence
Rural 60.4 19.8 15.8 2.9 1.1 100
Urban 21.9 34.3 34.8 5.2 3.8 100

National 47.7 24.6 22.0 3.7 1.9 100

Others* includes Support from people living abroad; Income from properties, investments or savings;
Private or state pension or [other Government support]; Charity from NGOs or other charitable
organizations
Source: National Labour Force Survey (NLFS) 2021

In order to examine income inequalities within the country, in the UNHS 2019/20, households were
categorized into seven groups based on the total annual income (cash and in-kind) received. The findings
show that:

• Overall, 76%t of the households receive a total annual household income

between UGX 5 million and UGX 10 million, followed by those that earn
between UGX 1 million and UGX 5 million annually.
• A similar pattern is observed across sub-regions with the exception of
Kampala where the second highest proportion (13%) is for those that earn
UGX 25 million and above.
Table 18: Percentage distribution of households by total annual household income
groupings (in UGX millions) and sub-regions
Sub Less 1 m- 5m - 10m 15m 20m 25m Total Median
region than less less - less - less - less and monthly
1m than than than than than above household
5m 10m 15m 20m 25m income

Kampala 0.5 5.6 64.3 10.0 6.3 0.8 12.5 100 667

Buganda
South 0.8 8.5 74.3 6.2 3.1 1.6 5.4 100 302

Buganda
North 1.3 11.9 76.0 4.0 2.3 1.5 3.1 100 208
Busoga 2.3 13.8 76.3 3.3 1.4 0.8 2.1 100 136
Bukedi 0.9 14.8 77.0 3.1 1.3 0.7 2.2 100 174
Elgon 1.8 6.5 82.2 5.4 1.8 0.7 1.5 100 192
Teso 0.7 1.7 90.2 4.5 1.9 0.6 0.4 100 263

Karamoja 2.5 17.4 77.2 1.9 0.1 0.1 0.8 100 99

Lango 7.7 27.1 61.7 1.6 1.2 0.3 0.5 100 72
Acholi 2.6 24.4 70.2 1.2 0.3 0.5 0.9 100 105
West
Nile 0.4 5.4 89.7 1.8 1.4 0.3 1.0 100 152
Bunyoro 0.4 6.8 79.8 5.3 2.1 1.4 4.2 100 250
Tooro 4.2 18.5 69.7 3.5 1.6 1.2 1.4 100 145
Ankole 3.0 15.2 74.8 2.5 1.5 0.9 2.0 100 195
Kigezi 3.5 23.9 68.4 2.0 0.9 0.4 0.9 100 133
Uganda 2.0 12.6 75.6 4.0 2.0 0.9 2.9 100 190
Source: Uganda National Household Survey (UNHS) 2021
 BUSOGA SUB REGION AT A GLANCE
• Busoga sub region is found in the Eastern part of Uganda. It comprises
of the districts of Bugiri, Buyende, Iganga, Bugweri, Jinja, Kaliro, Luuka,
Mayuge, Namayingo, Namutumba, Kamuli and Jinja City.
• As of 2014, the regional total population stood at 3.6 million persons. As
of May 2023, the total population for the sub region is projected at 4.6
million people.
• The most populous district in Busoga sub region is Mayuge with a
projected population of 615,600 persons as of May 2023.

Other selected indicators for Busoga sub region:

• 51% of the total population are female.
• 29.1% of the households are female headed.
• Primary School attendance (6-12 years) stands at 24.4% and Secondary
School attendance (13-18 years) at about 14.6% showing that most of
the children do not continue to secondary level.
• The literacy rate stands at 67.4%.
• 6.0% of households have no toilet facility.
• 13.3% of households use electricity for lighting.
• 24.7% of households use tadooba for lighting.
Source: Uganda National Household Survey (UNHS), 2019/20

Table 19: Busoga Sub-Region Population Size and Composition

% Female (May
District Total Population Projected Population 2023)
(2014) (May 2023)
BUGIRI 382913 536,800 50.8
IGANGA 339311 437,100 51.3
JINJA 224,168 255,000 50.6
KAMULI 486,319 596,500 50.5
MAYUGE 473,239 615,600 51.2
KALIRO 236,199 318,100 50.5
NAMUTUMBA 252,557 336,600 50.1
BUYENDE 323,067 468,800 50.4
LUUKA 238,020 281,800 51.9
NAMAYINGO 215,443 247,500 49.6
BUGWERI 164,886 205,700 51.7
JINJA CITY 247,074 281,100 51.2
TOTAL 3,583,196 4,580,600 50.8
Source: UBOS Population Censuses and Projection Reports, 2015 - 2050
 NAMUTUMBA DISTRICT AT A GLANCE
• Namutumba District is bordered by Pallisa District to the north, Kibuku
District to the northeast, Butaleja District to the southeast, Bugiri District
to the south, Iganga District to the southwest and Kaliro District to the
northwest. The district headquarters at Namutumba township are
located approximately 90 kilometres by road, northeast of Jinja, the
largest city in the sub-region.

Selected indicators for Namutumba District (NHPC2014):

• Namutumba’s population has grown from 252,557 persons in 2014 to
336,600 persons as of May 2023.

• 50.1% of the total population are female.

• 17.5 % of the households are female headed.
• 6.4% of children aged 10 – 17 years are in child marriages.
• 4.8% of children aged 0 – 17 years are orphans.
• School attendance stands at at 85.8% (6-12 years) and 31.2% (13-18
years).
• Literacy rate (18 years and above) stands at 59.5%.
• 96.4% of households own a mosquito net.
• 7.0% of households have no toilet facility.
• 60.2% of the households get information from radio.
• 24.9% of the households get information by word of mouth.
• 52.7% of households own a bicycle.
• 6.5% of households use electricity for lighting.
• 72.8% of households use tadooba for lighting.
Source: NPHC (2014) and Population Projection Reports, 2015 - 2050
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