Uganda 
Facts
Population: 30,262,610
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 2007 est.).
Age structure: 0-14 years: 50.2% (male 7,646,619/female 7,538,137)
15-64 years: 47.6% (male 7,231,196/female 7,185,058)
65 years and over: 2.2% (male 281,317/female 380,283) (2007 est.).
Population growth rate: 3.572% (2007 est.).
Birth rate: 48.12 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Death rate: 12.64 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Net migration rate: 0.24 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Sex ratio: at birth: 1.03 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.014 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.006 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.74 male(s)/female
total population: 1.004 male(s)/female (2007 est.).
Infant mortality rate: total: 67.22 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 70.92 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 63.42 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 51.75 years
male: 50.78 years
female: 52.73 years (2007 est.).
Total fertility rate: 6.84 children born/woman (2007 est.).
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 4.1% (2003 est.).
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 530,000 (2001 est.).
HIV/AIDS - deaths: 78,000 (2003 est.).
Nationality: noun: Ugandan(s)
adjective: Ugandan.
Ethnic groups: Baganda 16.9%, Banyakole 9.5%, Basoga 8.4%, Bakiga 6.9%, Iteso 6.4%, Langi 6.1%, Acholi 4.7%, Bagisu 4.6%, Lugbara 4.2%, Bunyoro 2.7%, other 29.6% (2002 census).
Religions: Roman Catholic 41.9%, Protestant 42% (Anglican 35.9%, Pentecostal 4.6%, Seventh Day Adventist 1.5%), Muslim 12.1%, other 3.1%, none 0.9% (2002 census).
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: 66.8%
male: 76.8%
female: 57.7% (2002 census).
GDP (purchasing power parity): $52.93 billion (2006 est.).
GDP - real growth rate: 5.3% (2006 est.).
GDP - per capita (PPP): $1,900 (2006 est.).
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 29.4%
industry: 22.1%
services: 48.5% (2006 est.).
Labor force: 13.76 million (2006 est.).
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 82%
industry: 5%
services: 13% (1999 est.).
Population below poverty line: 35% (2001 est.).
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 4%
highest 10%: 21% (2000).
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 6% (2006 est.).
Unemployment rate: NA%.
Budget: revenues: $1.943 billion
expenditures: $1.994 billion; including capital expenditures of $NA (2006 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: 5.2% (2006 est.).
Electricity - production: 1.894 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - consumption: 1.596 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - exports: 165 million kWh (2004).
Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (2004).
Exports: $961.7 million f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Exports - commodities: coffee, fish and fish products, tea, cotton, flowers, horticultural products; gold.
Exports - partners: Belgium 11.4%, Netherlands 11.1%, France 8.2%, Germany 5.9%, Rwanda 4.6% (2005).
Imports: $1.945 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Imports - commodities: capital equipment, vehicles, petroleum, medical supplies; cereals.
Imports - partners: Kenya 34.6%, UAE 8.5%, South Africa 5.7%, India 5.6%, China 5.1%, UK 4.4%, US 4% (2005).
Debt - external: $1.456 billion (2006 est.).
Economic aid - recipient: $959 million (2003).
Currency (code): Ugandan shilling (UGX).
Exchange rates: Ugandan shillings per US dollar - 1,834.9 (2006), 1,780.7 (2005), 1,810.3 (2004), 1,963.7 (2003), 1,797.6 (2002).
Fiscal year: 1 July - 30 June.
Statistics: C.I.A. World Factbook. Updated: July 20, 2007.
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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