Uganda is set to conduct the National Population and housing Census 2024 with the reference night being 9th May 2024. The Census will be done in 10 days starting on 9th May 2024 to 19th May 2024.
The President of Uganda, His Excellency Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, launched the NPHC 2024 activity on December 12th2023. After every 10 years, Uganda holds a national census and the last one was carried out in 2014.
The census figures play a critical role in guiding planning, policy formulation, and programme implementation as well as monitoring development progress in line with the national goals and objectives.
The census exercise will use digital technology to collect, process and disseminate census results. The digital census will enable the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) to produce accurate and timely demographic, social and economic statistics.
Census Implementation Plan
| Phases | Activity | Start | Final | Remarks |
| Pre-Enumeration | Stakeholder consultations | Feb-21 | Nov-25 | |
| Instrument development | Mar-20 | Sep-23 | ||
| Mapping of Enumeration areas | Jul-21 | Dec-23 | Census mapping in 11 cities namely Mbale, Jinja, Soroti, Arua, Fort Portal, Gulu, Masaka, Kampala, Mbarara, Hoima started on 22nd Jan 24 | |
| Gazetting of the NPHC 2024 | Oct-23 | |||
| Publicity and Advocacy | Jun-21 | Nov-25 | ||
| Development of Data processing | Mar-20 | Feb-24 | ||
| Pretesting of Tools and Data processing application | Mar-23 | Jun-23 | ||
| Pilot Census Enumeration | Jun-23 | Jul-23 | ||
| Procurement and deploymet of ICT and other equipment | Jul-21 | Feb-24 | ||
| Census Launch | 12th Dec 2023 | 12th Dec 2023 | ||
| Recruitment | Recruitment , Training and deployment of Enumerators and Parish Supervisors | 6th April 2024 | 9th May 2024 | |
| Census Night | Census Reference Period | 9th May 2024 | 9th May 2024 | |
| Enumeration | Census Enumeration | 10th May 2024 | 19th May 2024 | |
| Post Enumeration | Post Enumeration Survey Data Collection | Jun-24 | Jul-24 | |
| Data Processing Editing and Analysis | May-24 | Nov-24 | ||
| Release of Preliminary Results | Jun-24 | Jun-24 | ||
| Release of Provisional Results | Sep-24 | Sep-24 | ||
| Release of Final Census Results | Dec-24 | Dec-24 | ||
| Further Analysis and Utilisations | Jan-25 | Mar-25 | ||
| Administrative Report and Archiving | 25-Nov | 25-Nov |