Infant Mortality in Uganda: Determinants, Trends, and the Millennium Development Goals

Cornell Food and Nutrition Policy Program Working Paper No. 186

28 Pages Posted: 21 May 2007

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Sarah Ssewanyana

Economic Research Policy Centre (EPRC)

Stephen D. Younger

Tulane University - CEQ Institute

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Abstract

Unusually for an African economy, Uganda's growth has been rapid and sustained for an extended period of time. Further, this growth has clearly translated into substantial declines in poverty for all socio-economic groups and in all regions of the country. Despite this, there is concern in the country that other indicators of well-being are not improving at the same rate as incomes. This paper studies one such indicator, infant mortality. We use three rounds of the Uganda Demographic and Health Surveys to construct a national time series for infant mortality over a long period of time, 1974-1999. We also use these survey data to model the determinants of infant mortality and, based on those results, to examine the likelihood that Uganda will meet the Millennium Development Goal of halving infant mortality by 2015.

Keywords: Infant mortality, Uganda

JEL Classification: I12, I18, I32

Suggested Citation

Ssewanyana, Sarah and Younger, Stephen D., Infant Mortality in Uganda: Determinants, Trends, and the Millennium Development Goals. Cornell Food and Nutrition Policy Program Working Paper No. 186, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=752164 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.752164

Sarah Ssewanyana (Contact Author)

Economic Research Policy Centre (EPRC) ( email )

Kampala
Uganda

Stephen D. Younger

Tulane University - CEQ Institute ( email )

6823 St Charles Ave
New Orleans, LA 70118
United States

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