# Uganda Motorcycle, Boda Boda, and Two-Wheeler Mobility Report: citation brief

**Publisher:** MarketLink Consulting
**Updated:** 2026-09-15
**Canonical report:** https://www.marketlinkconsulting.com/market-reports/uganda-motorcycle-two-wheeler-mobility-report

This downloadable brief contains public evidence and explicit evidence limits from the canonical report. It is not an endorsement, a live market quotation, or proof of current buyer demand.

## Suggested citation

MarketLink Consulting. "Uganda Motorcycle, Boda Boda, and Two-Wheeler Mobility Report." Updated 2026-09-15. https://www.marketlinkconsulting.com/market-reports/uganda-motorcycle-two-wheeler-mobility-report

## Decision questions

- Which motorcycle and three-wheeler segments deserve a focused Uganda demand test?
- Which service parts, tyres, batteries, and uptime products can support repeat replenishment?
- Where should an ICE, electric-motorcycle, charging, or battery-swap supplier start its evidence work?
- Which importer, distributor, workshop, fleet, finance, or insurance partner should be validated first?
- What evidence is still required before a public signal becomes a supplier or market-entry recommendation?
- How should boda-boda tyres, tubes, and batteries be validated by application, safe-use specification, storage, warranty, and replenishment evidence?
- How should boda-boda brake shoes be validated by motorcycle application, buyer lane, sample evidence, and replenishment risk?

## Citation-ready evidence

### 1. Uganda recorded 146,877 newly registered private motorcycles in 2023.

**Evidence boundary:** This is a registration flow for one year, not the active national motorcycle fleet, the number of boda bodas, or current replacement demand.

**Sources:**
- Uganda Bureau of Statistics, Annual Statistical Abstract 2024

### 2. World Bank WITS reports 452,999 imported items under HS 871120 for Uganda in 2023.

**Evidence boundary:** The reported trade quantity is a customs-category signal. It should not be combined with registrations as though both sources count the same units or prove urban commercial use.

**Sources:**
- [World Bank WITS, Uganda imports of motorcycles with 50-250cc reciprocating engines, HS 871120, 2023](https://wits.worldbank.org/trade/comtrade/en/country/UGA/year/2023/tradeflow/Imports/partner/ALL/product/871120)

### 3. Public registration and trade figures do not establish the size of Uganda’s urban motorcycle-taxi market.

**Evidence boundary:** A defensible addressable-market estimate still requires active-vehicle reconciliation, city allocation, operator sampling, buyer interviews, and current service-demand evidence.

**Sources:**
- Uganda Bureau of Statistics, Annual Statistical Abstract 2024
- [World Bank WITS, Uganda imports of motorcycles with 50-250cc reciprocating engines, HS 871120, 2023](https://wits.worldbank.org/trade/comtrade/en/country/UGA/year/2023/tradeflow/Imports/partner/ALL/product/871120)

### 4. KCCA’s 2022 Boda Boda Census form separates motorcycles by boda, corporate, individual, goods, and other use and records operating area, finance, PSV, insurance, make, and rider details.

**Evidence boundary:** The census page and form define useful city-level segmentation fields, but the reviewed public materials do not disclose completed totals, national segment shares, purchase frequency, or replacement demand.

**Sources:**
- [Kampala Capital City Authority, Boda Boda Census](https://www.kcca.go.ug/boda-boda-census)
- [Kampala Capital City Authority, Boda Boda Census Form 2022](https://www.kcca.go.ug/media/docs/Application_Form_Boda_Boda_2022.pdf)

### 5. Uganda public e-mobility materials describe electric motorcycles, batteries, local manufacturing, mobility-sector jobs, and transport-emissions reduction as part of the national e-mobility direction.

**Evidence boundary:** This supports an electric-mobility validation lane, not a national forecast for electric motorcycle adoption, battery demand, charger demand, or spare-parts sales.

**Sources:**
- [Uganda E-Mobility Outlook Report 2024, published 2025](https://development.finance.go.ug/knowledge-centre-reports/uganda-e-mobility-outlook-report-2024?page=2)
- [Uganda STI Secretariat, Mobility programme page](https://sti.go.ug/mobility/)

## Technical review questions

- Which statements or definitions should be corrected before this evidence is reused?
- Which operator, workshop, fleet, safety, or service records could close the stated evidence gaps?
- Which findings are too broad for current field practice or require a narrower geography and period?
- Which corrections, if any, may be acknowledged publicly and with what attribution?

## Review and corrections

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