Uganda: Poverty Rate in Rural Subcounties with Safe Drinking Water Coverage Below 20 Percent

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International boundaries (NIMA, 1997), district administrative boundaries (UBOS, 2006b), subcounty administrative boundaries (UBOS, 2002a), water bodies (NFA, 1996; NIMA, 1997; Brakenridge et al., 2006), rural safe drinking water coverage rate (DWD, 2008), and rural poverty rate (UBOS and ILRI, 2008).

Note: Seven subcounties in Kaabong District, all with safe drinking water coverage below 20 percent, are not shown in this map because reliable poverty estimates were not available for 2005.

This map displays the poverty rate (the percentage of the population below the poverty line) in the 26 rural subcounties with the lowest safe drinking water coverage rates.

This map shows that the poverty rates for the 26 subcounties include all five classes of poverty rates, a fact that is masked by the average poverty rate (27 percent).

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