Determinants of high fertility in Uganda

Abstract

Fertility is the capability to produce offspring through reproduction following the onset of sexual maturity. The fertility rate is the average number of children born by a female during her lifetime and is quantified demographically. In 2020, fertility are for Uganda was births per woman which show a gradual fall from 7.1 births per woman in 1971 to 4.7 in 2020 but which still high never the less because the population growth rate 3.3% and birth rate of 36.7% per 1000 people is still high for Uganda. The global average fertility rate is just below 2.5 children per woman and 5.4 children for Uganda is still considered high in the modern world because of the reduction in the mortality rates hence the essence of the study to help find out how Uganda can attain both modernization and reduced normal fertility rates. UDHS 2016 reports fertility rates of 5.7 from a total of 18506 w0men aged 15-49 that were interviewed. Reason for carrying out the research and study on fertility of Uganda is broad and mainly to find out the following; Reasons why fertility rate is high basically looking at rural areas and urban areas separately How fertility rates in rural areas influence fertility rate of the country Effects of high fertility to Uganda and its ambitions How has fertility reduced from 7.1 in 1971 to 4.7 births in 2020? Basic solutions on a global and local basis to reduce and control fertility rate The study was basically done on a qualitative research basis with data collected, analyzed and interpreted to suit the purposes of the study. Since the used here is secondary data analysis used was stata 15 presented in univariate, bivariate and mulitivariate. The research used showed that most of the women interviewed had given to birth more than five supporting the hypothesis that Uganda has high fertility rates.