If you were born in Uganda
In 2023, about 1 in 77 babies on Earth was born in Uganda: 1,712,750 births in the year, about 3.3 every minute (UN World Population Prospects 2024).
A baby born in Uganda today can expect to live 68.3 years, which ranks 144 of 194 countries and regions.
The numbers
| Here | World | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Babies born here | 1 in 77 | — | 1 in 36 |
| Life expectancy at birth | 68.3 | 70.2 | 79.3 |
| Women / men | 71.1 / 65.3 | — | 81.8 / 76.9 |
| Children who die before 5 | 3.9% | 3.7% | 0.6% |
| Children per woman | 4.28 | 2.87 | 1.62 |
| Live in cities | 31% | 51% | 80% |
| Income per person (PPP $) | $3,278 | $17,038 | $86,170 |
| Income inequality (Gini) | 38.2 | 34.6 | 41.8 |
| Finish primary school | 53% | 86% | 96% |
| Finish middle school | 26% | 72% | 100% |
| Enrol in university | 4.6% | 35% | 79% |
| Women’s age at first marriage | 20.7 | 22.7 | 27.5 |
| Men’s age at first marriage | 24.3 | 27.0 | 29.2 |
| Use the internet | 8.9% | 60% | 95% |
| Health costs paid out of pocket | 32% | 41% | 11% |
2,000 lives born here
We ran the 1in8b life engine 2,000 times with every baby born in Uganda, using the same data as the game. Of those lives:
- 97%reached age 5
- 96%reached 18
- 67%reached 65
- 35%reached 80
- 72median age at death
- 53%finished primary school
- 15%finished high school
- 3.4%graduated from university
- 93%of adults ever married
- 3.9children on average
- 17%lost a child under 18
- 63%of 30-year-olds at work were farming
Simulated lives follow the national averages. Where you are born in a country, and to whom, changes them a great deal.
You don’t get to choose
In 1in8b you are born where the world’s babies are actually born. There is a 1 in 77 chance it is Uganda.
Be born at randomSources: UN World Population Prospects 2024 (births, life tables, fertility); World Bank and ILO (income, schooling, work, marriage, health). Latest year available for each figure.