Uganda |
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Geography | |
Location: | Eastern Africa, west of Kenya. |
Area: | total:
241,038 sq km country comparison to the world: 80 land: 197,100 sq km water: 43,938 sq km |
Natural Resources: | copper, cobalt, hydropower, limestone, salt, arable land |
Population and Health | |
Population: | 35,918,915 (July 2014 est.) |
Age structure: | 0-14 years: 48.7% (male 8,714,354/female 8,765,900) |
Population growth rate: | 3.24% (2014 est.) |
Birth rate: | 44.17 births/1,000 population (2014 est.) |
Death rate: | 10.97 deaths/1,000 population (2014 est.) |
Sex ratio: | at birth: 1.03 male(s)/female |
Infant mortality rate: | total: 60.82 deaths/1,000 live births |
Life expectancy at birth: | total population: 54.46 years |
Total fertility rate: | 5.97 children born/woman (2014 est.) |
Current contraceptive use among married women 15-49 years old(any method): | 30% (2007-2012) |
Unmet need of contraceptive: | 34.3% (2008) |
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: | 1,549,200 (2012) |
HIV/AIDS - deaths: | 63,300 (2012) |
Literacy: | definition: age 15 and over can read and write |
Economy | |
GDP (purchasing power parity): | $54.37 billion (2013 est.) |
GDP (official exchange rate): | $22.6 billion (2013 est.) |
GDP - real growth rate: | 5.6% (2013 est.) |
GDP - per capita (PPP): | $1,500 (2013 est.) |
GDP - composition by sector: | agriculture: 23.1% |
Labor force - by occupation: | agriculture: 82% |
Population below poverty line: | 24.5% (2009 est.) |
Inflation rate (consumer prices): | 6.2% (2013 est.) |
Agriculture - products: | coffee, tea, cotton, tobacco, cassava (tapioca), potatoes, corn, millet, pulses, cut flowers; beef, goat meat, milk, poultry |
Industries: | sugar, brewing, tobacco, cotton textiles; cement, steel production |
Industrial production growth rate: | 3.8% (2013 est.) |
Exports - commodities: | coffee, fish and fish products, tea, cotton, flowers, horticultural products; gold |
Currency (code): | Ugandan shilling (UGX) |
Others | |
Nationality: | noun:
Ugandan(s) adjective: Ugandan |
Religions: |
Roman
Catholic 41.9%, Anglicans 35.9%,Pentecostals 4.6%, SDA 1.5%,Orthodox 0.1%.Other Christians 1.2%,other non christians0.7% Muslim 12.1%, Traditional 1.0%,None 0.9%(statistical abstract,2006) |
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 |
Country name: | conventional
long form: Republic of Uganda conventional short form: Uganda |
Government type: | republic |
Capital: | name:
Kampala geographic coordinates: 0 19 N, 32 25 E time difference: UTC+3 (8 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time) |
Administrative divisions: | 80
districts; Adjumani, Apac, Arua, Bugiri, Bundibugyo, Bushenyi, Busia, Gulu,
Hoima, Iganga, Jinja, Kabale, Kabarole, Kaberamaido, Kalangala, Kampala,
Kamuli, Kamwenge, Kanungu, Kapchorwa, Kasese, Katakwi, Kayunga, Kibale,
Kiboga, Kisoro, Kitgum, Kotido, Kumi, Kyenjojo, Lira, Luwero, Masaka, Masindi,
Mayuge, Mbale, Mbarara, Moroto, Moyo, Mpigi, Mubende, Mukono, Nakapiripirit,
Nakasongola, Nebbi, Ntungamo, Pader, Pallisa, Rakai, Rukungiri, Sembabule,
Sironko, Soroti, Tororo, Wakiso, Yumbe the new districts are; Amolatar, Amuria,Amuru, Budaka,Bukwo, Butaleja, Ibanda,Isingiro, Kaabong, Kabingo, Kaliro, Kiruhura, Koboko, Manafwa, Mityana, Nakaseke, Oyam, Abim, Namutumba, Dokolo, Buliisa, Maracha, Terego, Bukedea, Bududa, Lyantonde |
Independence: | 9 October 1962 (from UK) |
Legal system: | in 1995, the government restored the legal system to one based on English common law and customary law; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction, with reservations |
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Source : UN_Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) and other national surveys; United Nations Population Division Update date: August 2014
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