Africa Health Knowledge Management Portal
Informing Health Decisions and Actions
Description
Uganda��s young population can be a valuable asset in driving the demographic dividend agenda. This will depend on the country��s ability to implement a development program that recognises the importance of population dynamics in development.3 In this regard, there is a need to deliberately change Uganda��s age structure to transform the population to have more workers than dependent by reducing birth rates and investing in the health, skill, education and employment of the youthful population. The shift in the age structure could be a driving force to achieve the socio-economic transformation envisaged in the second National Development Plan, the Vision 2040 and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).