{"id":"environment","title":"Environment","description":"Land cover, forest reserves, temperature by weather station and piped water supply.","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":"National Land Cover statistics_(sq._km) 2000 -2017","url":"https://www.ubos.org/wp-content/uploads/statistics/National_Land_Cover_statistics_(sq._km)_Land.xlsx"},{"title":"Share of total area under forest reserves by region, 2015","url":"https://www.ubos.org/wp-content/uploads/statistics/Share-of-total-area-under-forest-reserves-by-region-2015.xlsx"},{"title":"Temperature (Degrees Celsius) for selected centres 2017- 2021","url":"https://www.ubos.org/wp-content/uploads/statistics/Temperature_(Degrees_Celsius)_for_selected_centres_2017-_2021.xlsx"},{"title":"Water produced and supplied (million m3) by NWSC in Uganda, 2014_15 _ 2019_20","url":"https://www.ubos.org/wp-content/uploads/statistics/Water_produced_and_supplied_(million_m3)_by_NWSC_in_Uganda,_2014_15___2019_20.xlsx"}],"data":{"sources":{"land":{"title":"National Land Cover statistics_(sq._km) 2000 -2017","url":"https://www.ubos.org/wp-content/uploads/statistics/National_Land_Cover_statistics_(sq._km)_Land.xlsx","updated":"2023-06-25"},"reserves":{"title":"Share of total area under forest reserves by region, 2015","url":"https://www.ubos.org/wp-content/uploads/statistics/Share-of-total-area-under-forest-reserves-by-region-2015.xlsx","updated":"2025-10-14"},"temperature":{"title":"Temperature (Degrees Celsius) for selected centres 2017- 2021","url":"https://www.ubos.org/wp-content/uploads/statistics/Temperature_(Degrees_Celsius)_for_selected_centres_2017-_2021.xlsx","updated":"2023-06-25"},"water":{"title":"Water produced and supplied (million m3) by NWSC in Uganda, 2014_15 _ 2019_20","url":"https://www.ubos.org/wp-content/uploads/statistics/Water_produced_and_supplied_(million_m3)_by_NWSC_in_Uganda,_2014_15___2019_20.xlsx","updated":"2022-02-14"}},"land":{"years":["2000","2005","2010","2015","2017"],"summary":[{"name":"Forestry","values":[37866,36042,21993,19390,20255]},{"name":"Bush land","values":[40079,29687,23718,19707,16644]},{"name":"Grassland","values":[27940,40636,50683,51038,51210]},{"name":"Wetland","values":[8385,7530,8104,7167,7857]},{"name":"Agriculture","values":[90192,89543,99071,105315,106657]},{"name":"Open water","values":[36809,37065,36893,37502,37462]},{"name":"Others","values":[282,1051,1091,1434,1469]}],"detail":[{"name":"Broadleaved plantations","values":[98,148,210,437,841]},{"name":"Coniferous plantations","values":[115,187,437,635,758]},{"name":"Tropical High Forest Well stocked","values":[7039,6010,5649,5251,5242]},{"name":"Depleted Tropical High 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land cover table also has a 2019 column, but it appears to use a different classification (bush land falls by 84% in one step), so the trend shown stops at 2017.","Temperatures are UBOS’s long-term monthly averages for each weather station: typical daytime highs and night-time lows.","Rainfall is not shown: in UBOS’s 2014–2020 rainfall table, Gulu and Arua have identical figures, and the period covered is unclear.","Water figures are for National Water and Sewerage Corporation towns only. Some town-level water tables contain impossible values (more water supplied than produced), so only national totals are used."]}}