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ID number     :CI WOFACT 243              
Title         :Vital Statistics - UGANDA 
Data type     :TEXT 
End year      :1993
Date of record:01/22/1993
Country       : 
| UGANDA 
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UGANDA 
GEOGRAPHY 
Total area: 236,040 km2 
 
Land area: 199,710 km2 
 
Comparative area: slightly smaller than Oregon 
 
Land boundaries: 2,698 km total; Kenya 933 km, Rwanda 169 km, Sudan 435 
km, Tanzania 396 km, Zaire 765 km 
 
Coastline: none - landlocked 
 
Maritime claims: none - landlocked 
 
Disputes: none 
 
Climate: tropical; generally rainy with two dry seasons (December to 
February, June to August); semiarid in northeast 
 
Terrain: mostly plateau with rim of mountains 
 
Natural resources: copper, cobalt, limestone, salt 
 
Land use: arable land 23%; permanent crops 9%; meadows and pastures 25%; 
forest and woodland 30%; other 13%; includes irrigated NEGL% 
 
Environment: straddles Equator; deforestation; overgrazing; soil erosion 
 
Note: landlocked 
 
PEOPLE 
Population: 19,386,104 (July 1992), growth rate 3.7% (1992) 
 
Birth rate: 51 births/1,000 population (1992) 
 
Death rate: 14 deaths/1,000 population (1992) 
 
Net migration rate: 0 migrants/1,000 population (1992) 
 
Infant mortality rate: 91 deaths/1,000 live births (1992) 
 
Life expectancy at birth: 50 years male, 52 years female (1992) 
 
Total fertility rate: 7.2 children born/woman (1992) 
 
Nationality: noun - Ugandan(s); adjective - Ugandan 

 
 
Ethnic divisions: African 99%, European, Asian, Arab 1% 
 
Religions: Roman Catholic 33%, Protestant 33%, Muslim 16%, rest 
indigenous beliefs 
 
Languages: English (official); Luganda and Swahili widely used; other 
Bantu and Nilotic languages 
 
Literacy: 48% (male 62%, female 35%) age 15 and over can read and write 
(1990 est.) 
 
Labor force: 4,500,000 (est.); 50% of population of working age (1983) 
 
Organized labor: 125,000 union members 
 
GOVERNMENT 
Long-form name: Republic of Uganda 
 
Type: republic 
 
Capital: Kampala 
 
Administrative divisions: 10 provinces; Busoga, Central, Eastern, 
Karamoja, Nile, North Buganda, Northern, South Buganda, Southern, Western 
 
Independence: 9 October 1962 (from UK) 
 
Constitution: 8 September 1967, in process of constitutional revision 
 
Legal system: government plans to restore system based on English common 
law and customary law and reinstitute a normal judicial system; accepts 
compulsory ICJ jurisdiction, with reservations 
 
National holiday: Independence Day, 9 October (1962) 
 
Executive branch: president, vice president, prime minister, three 
deputy prime ministers, Cabinet 
 
Legislative branch: unicameral National Resistance Council 
 
Judicial branch: Court of Appeal, High Court 
 
Leaders: 
 
Chief of State: President Lt. Gen. Yoweri Kaguta MUSEVENI (since 29 
January 1986); Vice President Samson Babi Mululu KISEKKA (since NA January 
1991) 
 
Head of Government: Prime Minister George Cosmas ADYEBO (since NA 
January 1991) 
 
Political parties and leaders: only party - National Resistance Movement 
(NRM); note - the Uganda Patriotic Movement (UPM), Ugandan People's Congress 
(UPC), Democratic Party (DP), and Conservative Party (CP) are all proscribed 
from conducting public political activities 
 
Suffrage: universal at age 18 
 
National Resistance Council: last held 11-28 February 1989 (next to be 

 
held by January 1995); results - NRM was the only party; seats - (278 total, 
210 indirectly elected) 210 members elected without party affiliation 
 
Other political or pressure groups: Uganda People's Front (UPF), Uganda 
People's Christian Democratic Army (UPCDA), Ruwenzori Movement 
 
Member of: ACP, AfDB, C, CCC, EADB, ECA, FAO, G-77, GATT, IAEA, IBRD, 
ICAO, ICFTU, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IGADD, ILO, IMF, INTELSAT, INTERPOL, IOC, 
ITU, LORCS, NAM, OAU, OIC, PCA, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UPU, WHO, 
WIPO, WMO, WTO 
 
Diplomatic representation: Ambassador Stephen Kapimpina KATENTA-APULI; 
5909 16th Street NW, Washington, DC 20011; telephone (202) 726-7100 through 
7102 
 
US: Ambassador Johnnie CARSON; Embassy at Parliament Avenue, Kampala 
(mailing address is P. O. Box 7007, Kampala); telephone  256  (41) 259792, 
259793, 259795 
 
Flag: six equal horizontal bands of black (top), yellow, red, black, 
yellow, and red; a white disk is superimposed at the center and depicts a 
red-crested crane (the national symbol) facing the staff side 
 
ECONOMY 
Overview: Uganda has substantial natural resources, including fertile 
soils, regular rainfall, and sizable mineral deposits of copper and cobalt. 
The economy has been devastated by widespread political instability, 
mismanagement, and civil war since independence in 1962, keeping Uganda poor 
with a per capita income of about $300. (GDP remains below the levels of the 
early 1970s, as does industrial production.) Agriculture is the most 
important sector of the economy, employing over 80% of the work force. 
Coffee is the major export crop and accounts for the bulk of export 
revenues. Since 1986 the government has acted to rehabilitate and stabilize 
the economy by undertaking currency reform, raising producer prices on 
export crops, increasing petroleum prices, and improving civil service 
wages. The policy changes are especially aimed at dampening inflation, which 
was running at over 300% in 1987, and boosting production and export 
earnings. During the period 1990-91, the economy turned in a solid 
performance based on continued investment in the rehabilitation of 
infrastructure, improved incentives for production and exports, and 
gradually improving domestic security. 
 
GDP: exchange rate conversion - $5.6 billion, per capita $300; real 
growth rate 4.5% (1991 est.) 
 
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 35% (1991 est.) 
 
Unemployment rate: NA% 
 
Budget: revenues $365 million; expenditures $545 million, including 
capital expenditures of $165 million (FY89 est.) 
 
Exports: $208 million (f.o.b., 1990) 
 
commodities: coffee 97%, cotton, tea 
 
partners: US 25%, UK 18%, France 11%, Spain 10% 
 
Imports: $209 million (c.i.f., 1990) 
 

 
commodities: petroleum products, machinery, cotton piece goods, metals, 
transportation equipment, food 
 
partners: Kenya 25%, UK 14%, Italy 13% 
 
External debt: $1.9 billion (1991 est.) 
 
Industrial production: growth rate 7.0% (1990); accounts for 5% of GDP 
 
Electricity: 175,000 kW capacity; 315 million kWh produced, 15 kWh per 
capita (1991) 
 
Industries: sugar, brewing, tobacco, cotton textiles, cement 
 
Agriculture: mainly subsistence; accounts for 57% of GDP and over 80% of 
labor force; cash crops - coffee, tea, cotton, tobacco; food crops - 
cassava, potatoes, corn, millet, pulses; livestock products - beef, goat 
meat, milk, poultry; self-sufficient in food 
 
Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (1970-89), $145 million; 
Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-89), 
$1.4 billion; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $60 million; Communist countries 
(1970-89), $169 million 
 
Currency: Ugandan shilling (plural - shillings); 1 Ugandan shilling 
(USh) = 100 cents 
 
Exchange rates: Ugandan shillings (USh) per US$1 - 1,031.3 (March 1992), 
734.0 (1991), 428.85 (1990), 223.1 (1989), 106.1 (1988), 42.8 (1987) 
 
Fiscal year: 1 July - 30 June 
 
COMMUNICATIONS 
Railroads: 1,300 km, 1.000-meter-gauge single track 
 
Highways: 26,200 km total; 1,970 km paved; 5,849 km crushed stone, 
gravel, and laterite; remainder earth roads and tracks 
 
Inland waterways: Lake Victoria, Lake Albert, Lake Kyoga, Lake George, 
Lake Edward; Victoria Nile, Albert Nile; principal inland water ports are at 
Jinja and Port Bell, both on Lake Victoria 
 
Merchant marine: 1 roll-on/roll-off (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 1,697 
GRT 
 
Civil air: 6 major transport aircraft 
 
Airports: 35 total, 27 usable; 5 with permanent-surface runways; 1 with 
runways over 3,659 m; 3 with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 10 with runways 
1,220-2,439 m 
 
Telecommunications: fair system with microwave and radio communications 
stations; broadcast stations - 10 AM, no FM, 9 TV; satellite communications 
ground stations - 1 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT 
 
DEFENSE FORCES 
Branches: Army, Navy, Air Force 
 
Manpower availability: males 15-49, about 4,132,887; about 2,243,933 for 
military service 

 
 
Defense expenditures: $NA, NA% of GDP 
 
 
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