{"id":454,"date":"2012-10-02T05:24:13","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T05:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fortuneofafrica.com\/ug\/social-context\/"},"modified":"2012-10-02T05:24:13","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T05:24:13","slug":"social-context","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/social-context\/","title":{"rendered":"Urbanisation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Uganda\u2019s urban population is increasing rapidly from less than 1 million in 1980 to over 4.5\u00a0\u00a0 million persons in 2012 indicating a more than fourfold increase. At 12 per cent level of urbanization, Uganda is considered a rural economy when compared to\u00a0\u00a0 Kenya and Tanzania that are 20 per cent and 22 per cent urbanized respectively.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">For the country to achieve faster socio-economic transformation there is need to raise the level of urbanization. The level of urbanization in various regions of Uganda ranges between 7 per cent and 10 per cent. . Kampala is the only urban district with a night population of 1.2 million and a day population of close to 3 million.\u00a0 Kampala City is followed by Gulu Town which has a population of 0.1 million.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Kampala City is\u00a0 experiencing\u00a0 rapid population growth of 5.6 % per annum largely influenced by rural-urban migration. Population increase in Kampala City area is responsible for increased demand for employment, land for housing, social services and infrastructure resulting in the ongoing urban development and industrialization. Kampala City has evolved from a small area of 8km2 to a \u201ccity of seven hills\u201d at independence in 1962 and it has now\u00a0 expanded to more than twenty five hills sourrounding the city . Kampala City is currently\u00a0 ranked\u00a0 among the fastest growing cities in Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uganda\u2019s urban population is increasing rapidly from less than 1 million in 1980 to over 4.5\u00a0\u00a0 million persons in 2012 indicating a more than fourfold increase. At 12 per cent level of urbanization, Uganda is considered a rural economy when compared to\u00a0\u00a0 Kenya and Tanzania that are 20 per cent and 22 per cent urbanized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":14,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-454","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/author\/admin\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Uganda\u2019s urban population is increasing rapidly from less than 1 million in 1980 to over 4.5\u00a0\u00a0 million persons in 2012 indicating a more than fourfold increase. At 12 per cent level of urbanization, Uganda is considered a rural economy when compared to\u00a0\u00a0 Kenya and Tanzania that are 20 per cent and 22 per cent urbanized&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}