Uganda, April 19 -- Uganda is set to conduct a National Population and Housing Census on May 9, 2024. This will be the eleventh census since the country started conducting one. It will be the sixth in the post-independence period.

The earlier censuses were conducted in 1911, 1921, 1931, 1948, 1959, 1969, 1980, 1991, 2002 and 2014. The first census conducted in 1911 was of the Uganda Protectorate that extended to the eastern arm of the Great East African Rift Valley and included areas like Turkana, Naivasha, Kisumu, etc in present-day Kenya, and parts of present-day South Sudan.

It however excluded the southern part of the Lado Enclave (present-day West Nile) and the Kigezi region which was still part of the kingdom of Rwanda under Germa...