How Uganda fared in world ranking
- Category: General News
- Date: 17-01-2020
By Vision Reporter
Added 31st December 2019 07:38 AM
Uganda is the largest refugee hosting country in Africa, with refugees from mostly South Sudan, DR Congo, Burundi and Somalia.
YEAR ENDER
Year enders are a stock-taking time for individuals and nations. Thus, the end of 2019 comes with statisticians evaluating performance. Hilary Bainemigisha looks at two scenarios where Uganda stormed into world rankings, one for bad and another for good reasons
The net is awash with top tens of almost everything; economic performance, living conditions, sports performance, and military might. Some have declined, others improved.
For Uganda, the chance of storming the top ten ranks in the world comes on a bad note with population growth rate ranking fifth in the world.
Population growth would not be a problem if it was matched with economic development.
However, on a good note, Uganda was ranked fourth in the world among refugee-hosting countries. It gets better when only Africa is considered. read more here