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Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>President Museveni yesterday explained why he rejected family planning methods proposed by some development partners as one of the ways to control population growth, and instead encouraged Ugandans to have more children.<\/b><\/p>\n

Speaking at the launch of the 2024 National Population and Household Census preliminary results in Kampala, the President said he dismissed foreign concerns about Uganda\u2019s population growth because he wanted the country to progress at its own pace.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou remember we had problems where some groups wanted to castrate our people, saying they were controlling the population. And I told them, \u2018Please, the problem of too big family sizes is medical and socio-economic.\u2019 That is what we told you,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you have one child, and if he or she dies, what do you do? That is why the insurance policy was to have as many children as possible because some will die and some will survive,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Strategy<\/b><\/p>\n

Mr Museveni said his strategy was that the population can be controlled if there are reliable medical services as well as proper socio-economic factors, with more people in the money economy.<\/p>\n

He indicated that whereas traditionally, children were seen as labourers, where more children meant more workers, this trend has changed with having more children meaning digging deep into one\u2019s pocket for necessities.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou go with these foreigners, they tell you lies. So when they were saying population birth control, I hear, use injections, I said no. This is not the problem,\u201d the President said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe problem was, first of all, having reliable medical services so that people know that even if you have one child, he or she will not die unless there is an accident. So I said that this business of having insurance by having many children would be addressed with time,\u201d Mr Museveni added.<\/p>\n

He indicated that as a result, the government introduced universal immunisation so that children do not die, pointing out that the infant mortality rate has decreased from 122 deaths per 1,000 to 30 deaths per 1,000. He also noted that life expectancy has increased from 43 to 63 years.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople started calling me \u2018mzee\u2019 when I was 26, leading the fighters in the bush in 1971. They looked at me as very old because people were dying early, so we needed more so that some die and some survive. But now, life expectancy is 63 years, and people are joining the money economy,\u201d Mr Museveni said.<\/p>\n

Uganda joins middle-income status<\/b><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, President Museveni indicated he thought the population was going to be about 50 million but was surprised to find it at 45.9 million.<\/p>\n

\u201cI told Ugandans that the census was going to prove many things, and you remember the other discussion we had that Uganda had entered middle-income status. We were thinking that the population now is like 48 million. But as you hear, it\u2019s 45.9 million with a GDP of 50 billion,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can see now the other level of middle-income status is confirmed by figures that you have really entered middle-income status,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Results<\/b><\/p>\n

The census preliminary findings released by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (Ubos) show that Uganda\u2019s population increased by 11 million from 34 million 10 years ago to 45.9 million. The data shows that the population growth rate had dropped to 2.9 percent compared to 3 percent in 2014, while the fertility rate dropped from 4.7 in 2014 to 4.4 in 2024.<\/p>\n

The Ubos Executive Director, Mr Chris Mukiza implored the government to use the data to improve people\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring census, Ugandans kept telling us that you are counting us but what do we get? How shall we benefit? They kept asking us to go and tell our government to use the data to improve the livelihood of Ugandans,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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