This is average number of births per thousand which a woman can produce in, her productive ,age or period i.e. between the ages of 15 to 45 years.

In 2008 Uganda's population was estimated at 31,367,972. The estimated growth rate of the population in 2008 was 3.6 percent. The birth rate was 48 per 1,000 people and the death rate 12 per 1,000. The fertility rate, the number of births per woman, was 6.8.