%, services 13% (1999 est.)
Unemployment rate:
NA (2002 est.)
Budget:
revenues: $1.123 billion
expenditures: $1.433 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA
(FY98/99 est.) (2003)
Public debt:
62.2% of GDP (2003)
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
Industrial production growth rate:
5% (2003 est.)
Electricity - production:
1.928 billion kWh (2001)
Electricity - consumption:
1.62 billion kWh (2001)
Electricity - exports:
174 million kWh (2001)
Electricity - imports:
1 million kWh (2001)
Oil - production:
0 bbl/day (2001 est.)
Oil - consumption:
8,750 bbl/day (2001 est.)
Oil - exports:
NA (2001)
Oil - imports:
NA (2001)
Current account balance:
$-237 million (2003)
Exports:
$495 million f.o.b. (2003 est.)
Exports - commodities:
coffee, fish and fish products, tea; gold, cotton, flowers,
horticultural products
Exports - partners:
Kenya 14.7%, Switzerland 13.7%, Netherlands 9.2%, UK 6.4%, South
Africa 5.6% (2003)
Imports:
$1.179 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.)
Imports - commodities:
capital equipment, vehicles, petroleum, medical supplies; cereals
Imports - partners:
Kenya 26%, India 7.4%, South Africa 7.2%, Japan 6.6%, UK 6.3%, UAE
5.8%, US 5.7%, China 5.1% (2003)
Reserves of foreign exchange & gold:
$1.08 billion (2003)
Debt - external:
$3.818 billion (2003 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:
$1.4 billion (2000)
Currency:
Ugandan shilling (UGX)
Currency code:
UGX
Exchange rates:
Ugandan shillings per US dollar - 1,963.72 (2003), 1,797.55 (2002),
1,755.66 (2001), 1,644.48 (2000), 1,454.83 (1999)
Fiscal year:
1 July - 30 June
Communications Uganda
Telephones - main lines in use:
61,000 (2003)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
776,200 (2003)
Telephone system:
general assessment: seriously inadequate; two cellular systems have
been introduced, but a sharp increase in the number of main lines is
essential; e-mail and Internet services are available
domestic: intercity traffic by wire, microwave radio relay, and
radiotelephone communication stations, fixed and mobile cellular
systems for short-range traffic
international: country code - 256; satellite earth stations - 1
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