Uganda 
Facts
Population:
23,985,712
note:
estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2001 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years:
51.08% (male 6,150,038; female 6,100,880)
15-64 years:
46.78% (male 5,613,499; female 5,607,526)
65 years and over:
2.14% (male 244,216; female 269,553) (2001 est.)
Population growth rate:
2.93% (2001 est.)
Birth rate:
47.52 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Death rate:
17.97 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Net migration rate:
-0.29 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 est.)
note:
according to the UNHCR, by the end of 1999, Uganda was host to 218,000 refugees from a number of neighboring countries, including: Sudan 200,600, Rwanda 8,000, and Democratic Republic of the Congo 8,000
Sex ratio:
at birth:
1.03 male(s)/female
under 15 years:
1.01 male(s)/female
15-64 years:
1 male(s)/female
65 years and over:
0.91 male(s)/female
total population:
1 male(s)/female (2001 est.)
Infant mortality rate:
91.3 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population:
43.37 years
male:
42.59 years
female:
44.17 years (2001 est.)
Total fertility rate:
6.88 children born/woman (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
8.3% (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
820,000 (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
110,000 (1999 est.)
Nationality:
noun:
Ugandan(s)
adjective:
Ugandan
Ethnic groups:
Baganda 17%, Karamojong 12%, Basogo 8%, Iteso 8%, Langi 6%, Rwanda 6%, Bagisu 5%, Acholi 4%, Lugbara 4%, Bunyoro 3%, Batoro 3%, non-African (European, Asian, Arab) 1%, other 23%
Religions:
Roman Catholic 33%, Protestant 33%, Muslim 16%, indigenous beliefs 18%
Languages:
English (official national language, taught in grade schools, used in courts of law and by most newspapers and some radio broadcasts), Ganda or Luganda (most widely used of the Niger-Congo languages, preferred for native language publications in the capital and may be taught in school), other Niger-Congo languages, Nilo-Saharan languages, Swahili, Arabic
Literacy:
definition:
age 15 and over can read and write
total population:
61.8%
male:
73.7%
female:
50.2% (1995 est.)
GDP:
purchasing power parity - $26.2 billion (2000 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
6% (2000 est.)
GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $1,100 (2000 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
43%
industry:
17%
services:
40% (1998 est.)
Population below poverty line:
55% (1993 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
3%
highest 10%:
33.4% (1992)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
6.5% (2000)
Labor force:
8.361 million (1993 est.)
Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture 82%, industry 5%, services 13% (1999 est.)
Unemployment rate:
NA%
Budget:
revenues:
$959 million
expenditures:
$1.04 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (FY98/99 est.)
Industries:
sugar, brewing, tobacco, cotton textiles, cement
Industrial production growth rate:
7% (1999)
Electricity - production:
1.326 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
0.98%
hydro:
99.02%
nuclear:
0%
other:
0% (1999)
Electricity - consumption:
1.06 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - exports:
174 million kWh (1999)
Electricity - imports:
1 million kWh (1999)
Agriculture - products:
coffee, tea, cotton, tobacco, cassava (tapioca), potatoes, corn, millet, pulses; beef, goat meat, milk, poultry
Exports:
$500.1 million (f.o.b., 1999)
Exports - commodities:
coffee, fish and fish products, tea; electrical products, iron and steel
Exports - partners:
Spain, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Hungary, Kenya (1999)
Imports:
$1.1 billion (f.o.b., 1999)
Imports - commodities:
vehicles, petroleum, medical supplies; cereals
Imports - partners:
Kenya 27.5%, US 21.2%, France 19.3, UK 5%, India 4% (1999)
Debt - external:
$3.6 billion (2000 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:
$1.4 billion (2000)
Currency:
Ugandan shilling (UGX)
Currency code:
UGX
Exchange rates:
Ugandan shillings per US dollar - 1,700 (February 2001), 1,830.4 (January 2001), 1,644.5 (2000), 1,454.8 (1999), 1,240.2 (1998), 1,083.0 (1997), 1,046.1 (1996)
Fiscal year:
1 July - 30 June
Statistics: CIA World Factbook.
Press
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(Local Language Daily), Kampala
http://www.bukedde.co.ug/
(Independent), Kampala
http://www.monitor.co.ug/
Financial Times
(Independent financial biweekly), Kampala
(Government-owned, Independent), Kampala
http://www.newvision.co.ug/
Red Pepper
(Tabloid), Kampala
(Independent), Kampala
http://www.redpepper.ug/
Sunday Vision
(Government-owned), Kampala
Uganda in the News
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Nairobi's East African suspects the United States used dirty tricks to sow division among poor countries at the WTO summit in Mexico.
Moses Serugo, writing for The Monitor of Kampala, reviews an art show by Mozambican artist Feil dos Santos that features land-mines and AK-47s made into art.
On his visit to Africa in July, President Bush praised Uganda’s success in fighting HIV/AIDS and defusing regional conflicts. But for Ugandans, such gains are eclipsed by a brutal civil war in which children are used as pawns and thousands have been left traumatized, mutilated, or dead.
Kampala's New Vision reports on international institutions' reluctance to get involved in Uganda's civil war.
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