amounts combined with the original HIPC
debt relief added up to about $2 billion. Growth for 2001-02 was
solid despite continued decline in the price of coffee, Uganda's
principal export. Solid growth in 2003-04 reflected an upturn in
Uganda's export markets.
GDP (purchasing power parity):
$39.39 billion (2004 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
5% (2004 est.)
GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $1,500 (2004 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 35.8%
industry: 20.8%
services: 43.6% (2004 est.)
Labor force:
12.41 million (2004 est.)
Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture 82%, industry 5%, services 13% (1999 est.)
Unemployment rate:
NA (2002 est.)
Population below poverty line:
35% (2001 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 4%
highest 10%: 21% (2000)
Distribution of family income - Gini index:
37.4 (1996)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
3.5% (2004 est.)
Investment (gross fixed):
22.4% of GDP (2004 est.)
Budget:
revenues: $1.491 billion
expenditures: $1.727 billion, including capital expenditures of NA
(2004 est.)
Public debt:
73.9% of GDP (2004 est.)
Agriculture - products:
coffee, tea, cotton, tobacco, cassava (tapioca), potatoes, corn,
millet, pulses; beef, goat meat, milk, poultry, cut flowers
Industries:
sugar, brewing, tobacco, cotton textiles, cement, steel production
Industrial production growth rate:
5.6% (2004 est.)
Electricity - production:
1.775 billion kWh (2002)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 0.9%
hydro: 99.1%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (2001)
Electricity - consumption:
1.401 billion kWh (2002)
Electricity - exports:
250 million kWh (2002)
Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (2002)
Oil - production:
0 bbl/day (2001 est.)
Oil - consumption:
8,750 bbl/day (2001 est.)
Oil - exports:
NA
Oil - imports:
NA
Current account balance:
$-590.8 million (2004 est.)
Exports:
$621.7 million f.o.b. (2004 est.)
Exports - commodities:
coffee, fish and fish products, tea; gold, cotton, flowers,
horticultural products
Exports - partners:
Kenya 15%, Netherlands 10.7%, Belgium 9%, France 4.4%, Germany 4.4%
(2004)
Imports:
$1.306 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)
Imports - commodities:
capital equipment, vehicles, petroleum, medical supplies; cereals
Imports - partners:
Kenya 32.
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