The 2025 version of the Africa Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition finds that Africa remains off-track to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 2 (Zero Hunger), with hunger, food insecurity, and malnutrition continuing to rise across the continent. More than 300 million Africans were undernourished in 2024, while nearly 60 percent of the population experienced moderate or severe food insecurity.
The 2026 edition of Africa Sustainable Development Report highlights that Africa is unlikely to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 without accelerated action to address financing constraints, infrastructure gaps, climate vulnerabilities, low productivity, and institutional weaknesses. The report emphasizes the need for countries to prioritize investments in water and sanitation, energy access, industrialization, infrastructure development, and stronger partnerships while improving domestic resource mobilization and public sector efficiency.
Uganda’s overall crime rate fell by 10.2% in 2025, with 196,405 cases reported compared to 218,715 in 2024, a significant acceleration from the 4.1% decline in 2024. This improvement stems from a high-functioning inter-agency framework and the strategic rollout of a sub-county policing model, which now provides localized security to 56% of sub-counties. The shift toward a proactive security posture is driven by intelligence-led operations and the integration of force multipliers, including CCTV, forensics, and IT systems.
The National Governance, Peace and Security Survey (NGPSS) 2024/25 show encouraging progress. The findings revealed that 82% of Ugandans expressed trust in government’s ability to provide security, up from 72% in 2017. while trust in local government institutions rose to 61%, up from 55% in 2022. Case backlog reduction in the judiciary improved by 18% between 2023 and 2025, reflecting institutional efficiency. Additionally, the Inspectorate of Government recorded a 12% increase in corruption case resolutions in 2025, signaling stronger governance accountability.
The United Nations- Uganda Analysis report presents the recent national development story, including three strategic imperatives, and a set of 10 acceleration pathways. It focuses on what must shift in policies, systems and delivery to move Uganda towards a more prosperous, resilient and inclusive future. Despite uncertainties, there is progress to build on. In 2023, the Sustainable Development Report gave Uganda a score of 56.1. This is a modest improvement from 2020, but slightly above the Sub‑Saharan Africa average of 53.7.
The 2025 East Africa economic outlook dives deep into macroeconomic indicators like growth-rate forecasts or estimates and key risks for five major geographies in the region: Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. Uganda is well-positioned in 2025 to outpace the EAC average if its oil investments materialize and trade integration deepens. Its relatively higher growth forecast (6–7%) makes it one of the faster-growing economies in the bloc.
Rule of Law is the foundation for communities of justice, opportunity, and peace-underpinning development, accountable government, and respect for fundamental rights. Rule of Law data is indexed on a scale of 0-100 to show each countries relative position against others in the database. Uganda ranked 126th out of 142 countries in the World Justice Project (WJP) Rule of Law Index 2024, with a score of 0.39. This represents a slight decline of less than 1% compared to the previous year.
Gender Based Violence (GBV) takes multiple forms, including physical, sexual, and psychological abuse, with harmful traditional practices such as female genital mutilation, early or forced marriages, dowry-related violence, and economic abuse. The 2024 Annual Crime Report revealed that over 75 percent of domestic violence victims were women and girls, with all 1667 recorded rape victims in 2024 being women who also accounted for 98 percent of defilement cases. The Demographic and Health Survey (UDHS) 2022 indicated physical violence against women at 23 percent.
The Sustainable Development Report (SDR) 2025 launched 24th June 2025 provides a comprehensive global assessment of progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for all UN member states. It introduces both the SDG Index and the streamlined SDGi (based on 17 headline indicators), enabling cross-country comparisons using harmonized performance thresholds. The SDG Index scores are measured on a scale from 0 to 100, with 100 indicating full achievement of the SDGs.
The IGP launched the Annual Crime Report (ACR) 2024. The report indicates a 4.1 percent decline in the number of crimes reported to Police, from 228,074 in 2023 to 218,715 in 2024. This was driven by the police force’s commitment to decentralising services through implementation of the Sub-county Policing Model where each sub-county is allocated 18 Police officers. This initiative drew police services closer to the communities, enhancing crime prevention and response.
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