Uganda GIS Data

Overview

You can carry out your own analyses on poverty and ecosystem services with the GIS data made available, some of them being publicly released for the first time. All data are accompanied by metadata.

• Poverty
• Environmental health: drinking water and sanitation
• Wetlands
• Base data

Poverty

• Rural Poverty- 2005 (zip file): Poverty rate, poverty gap, poverty density, and average inequality of per capita expenditures (also known as the GINI Index) in rural Subcounties in 2005

Environmental health: drinking water and sanitation

• Environmental Health Census (zip file): Census data by Subcounty on open source for drinking water, access to improved sanitation, and access to hygiene/ soap
• Safe Water Coverage (zip file): Safe water coverage by Subcounty in 2008

Wetlands

• NWIS 1997 Data (zip file): Calculations of indicators and summary statistics based on data of the National Wetland Information System from 1997-2001
• Wetland Area Per Capita (zip file): Area of wetland per capita by Subcounty
• Wetlands Extend and Types- 1996 (zip file): Extent and type (permanent versus seasonal) of wetlands in Uganda in 1996
• Theoretical Revenue from Papyrus Harvest (zip file): Theoretical revenue from papyrus harvest by Subcounty

Base data

• District administrative boundaries in Uganda in 2006 (zip file)
• Uganda protected areas as of 2007 (zip file)
• Subcounty administrative boundaries in Uganda in 2002 (zip file)
• Waterbodies in Uganda (zip file)

Additional Information

• Mapping a Better Future: How Spatial Analysis Can Benefit Wetlands and Reduce Poverty in Uganda

• Mapping a Healthier Future: How Spatial Analysis Can Guide Pro-Poor Water and Sanitation Planning in Uganda