{"id":"disability","title":"Disability (functional difficulty)","description":"Disability by type, age, sex, sub-region, wealth, schooling and marital status (UDHS 2022), with trends since 2011.","licence":"Figures are official statistics published by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) and its partner agencies. Cite UBOS as the source; the links in each dataset point to the original files.","sources":[{"title":"Prevalence of functional difficulty by domain for persons aged 5+, 2022","url":"https://www.ubos.org/wp-content/uploads/statistics/Prevalence-of-functional-difficulty-by-domain-for-persons-aged-5-2022.xlsx"},{"title":"Comparisons of prevalence of functional difficulty level by years","url":"https://www.ubos.org/wp-content/uploads/statistics/Comparisons-of-prevalence-of-functional-difficulty-level-by-years.xlsx"},{"title":"Prevalence of disability by Age Group","url":"https://www.ubos.org/wp-content/uploads/statistics/Prevalence-of-disability-bu-age-group.xlsx"},{"title":"Persons with a lot of difficulty or cannot do at all","url":"https://www.ubos.org/wp-content/uploads/statistics/persons-with-a-lot-of-difficulty-or-cannot-do-at-all.xlsx"},{"title":"Family income level by disability status","url":"https://www.ubos.org/wp-content/uploads/statistics/Family-income-level-by-disability-status.xlsx"},{"title":"Education attainment of persons with functional difficulties","url":"https://www.ubos.org/wp-content/uploads/statistics/Education-attainment-of-persons-with-functional-difficulties.xlsx"},{"title":"Percentage of persons with a lot of difficulties or who cannot do at all by marital status","url":"https://www.ubos.org/wp-content/uploads/statistics/Percentage-of-persons-with-a-lot-of-difficulties-or-who-cannot-do-at-all-by-marital-status.xlsx"}],"data":{"sources":{"domains":{"title":"Prevalence of functional difficulty by domain for persons aged 5+, 2022","url":"https://www.ubos.org/wp-content/uploads/statistics/Prevalence-of-functional-difficulty-by-domain-for-persons-aged-5-2022.xlsx","updated":"2025-10-14"},"trend":{"title":"Comparisons of prevalence of functional difficulty level by 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dressing","some":1.9,"severe":1.5}],"trend":[{"survey":"2011","severe":4.9,"some":14.3},{"survey":"2016","severe":6.5,"some":19.8},{"survey":"2022","severe":5.7,"some":13.6}],"by_age":[{"age":"5-9","pct":5.2},{"age":"10-14","pct":2.5},{"age":"15-19","pct":2.5},{"age":"20-29","pct":2.6},{"age":"30-39","pct":3},{"age":"40-49","pct":5.8},{"age":"50-59","pct":10.2},{"age":"60+","pct":28.5}],"by_subregion":[{"name":"Kampala","Male":4.5,"Female":4.8},{"name":"Buganda","Male":5.6,"Female":6.8},{"name":"Busoga","Male":6,"Female":9.6},{"name":"Bukedi","Male":9.4,"Female":14.3},{"name":"Elgon","Male":5.4,"Female":8},{"name":"Teso","Male":7.9,"Female":10.8},{"name":"Karamoja","Male":2.9,"Female":5.3},{"name":"Lango","Male":5.2,"Female":6.8},{"name":"Acholi","Male":14.2,"Female":18.5},{"name":"West Nile","Male":3,"Female":4.6},{"name":"Bunyoro","Male":3.9,"Female":3.8},{"name":"Toro","Male":3.5,"Female":4.9},{"name":"Ankole","Male":4.4,"Female":4.4},{"name":"Kigezi","Male":5.9,"Female":8.9}],"by_wealth":[{"name":"Lowest","Male":7.7,"Female":10.5},{"name":"Second","Male":6.2,"Female":7.6},{"name":"Middle","Male":5.7,"Female":8.2},{"name":"Fourth","Male":5.9,"Female":7.4},{"name":"Highest","Male":3.7,"Female":5.1},{"name":"National","Male":5.8,"Female":7.7}],"by_education":[{"name":"Pre-primary/No school","Male":13.1,"Female":19.2},{"name":"Primary","Male":6.1,"Female":6.5},{"name":"Secondary","Male":3.6,"Female":2.6},{"name":"More than secondary","Male":4.4,"Female":4}],"by_marital":[{"name":"Never married","Men":3.3,"Women":4.6},{"name":"Married","Men":6.2,"Women":4.7},{"name":"Widowed","Men":31.1,"Women":27},{"name":"Divorced","Men":8.1,"Women":8.3}],"notes":["Disability here means having a lot of difficulty, or being unable, to do at least one basic activity: seeing, hearing, walking, remembering, self-care or communicating. People aged 5 and over, Uganda Demographic and Health Survey 2022.","UBOS labels the wealth table “family income”; the groups are household wealth fifths, from poorest to richest.","Survey estimates for single sub-regions are less precise than national figures."]}}