According\nto the report by Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS), the number of Ugandans\nfalling into poverty and those who have remained poor is bigger than the number\nof those that have lifted themselves from poverty since 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This\nwas revealed during the launch of the National Panel Survey and the poverty\nmaps of Uganda by Uganda Bureau of statistic on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The\nNational Panel Survey 2018\/19 indicates that 8.4% of Ugandans who were not poor\nby 2016 became poor by 2019 while 8.5% who were poor remained poor, 10.5% came\nout of their poverty and 75.6% who were not poor maintained their status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This\nmeans the number of Ugandans who remained poor is 17% compared to the 10.5% who\nmanaged to live their status from poverty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
James\nMuwonge, the director social economic survey said \u201cThose who have consistently\nremained poor are those who either have very low level of education or have no\neducation at all and so what they engage in, they are not even able to benefit\nfrom different programmes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Stephen\nBaryahirwa, the principal statistics director of surveys UBOS said the poverty\nmapping exercise using 2014 National Housing and population census and 2016\/17\nnational household survey shows how the regions are faring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEastern,\nCentral and Western region including Kampala though the poverty levels are low,\npoverty increased between 12,13 ,16 and 17 while in the Northern region poverty\nreduced,\u201d Baryahirwa said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The\npoverty maps of Uganda also showed that poverty in children is higher than in\nthe general population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cPoor\nhouseholds tend to have many children, so if you pull out from the sample, we\nwant to look at them separately definitely they will be more children compared\nto the general population that are coming from the poor households, \u201che said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The\nstudy shows that many households continue to get poorer signalling the needs to\nshift the discussion towards addressing income equality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
According to the report by Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS), the number of Ugandans falling into poverty and those who have remained poor is bigger than the number of those that have lifted themselves from poverty since 2016. This was revealed during the launch of the National Panel Survey and the poverty maps of Uganda […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2270,"featured_media":12347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n