The third National Development Plan identifies human capital development as one of the fundamentals to accelerate the country’s transformation and harness the Demographic Dividend. The Demographic Dividend is the benefit that may arise from a change in the population age structure when the working (and productive) population is more than the dependents.

The State of Uganda Population Report 2022 underscores the importance of changing the population age structure to reduce high child dependency burden. The Report indicates that the game changers for Demographic Transition are: Promoting family planning; Improving child survival; Keeping children, especially girls, in school to completion and strengthening organized urbanization.

For further reading, the captioned Report can be accessed via the link below:

http://npcsec.go.ug/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/SUPRE-2022-Final-.pdf