rospered
in 1995 with rapid growth, low inflation, growing foreign
investment, a trimmed bureaucracy, and the continued return of
exiled Indian-Ugandan entrepreneurs.

GDP: purchasing power parity - $16.8 billion (1995 est.)

GDP real growth rate: 7.1% (1995 est.)

GDP per capita: $900 (1995 est.)

GDP composition by sector:
agriculture: 55%
industry: 12%
services: 33% (1995)

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 6.1% (1995)

Labor force: 8.361 million (1993 est.)
by occupation: agriculture 86%, industry 4%, services 10% (1980 est.)

Unemployment rate: NA%

Budget:
revenues: $574 million
expenditures: $1.07 billion, including capital expenditures of $328
million (1994/95 est.)

Industries: sugar, brewing, tobacco, cotton textiles, cement

Industrial production growth rate: 15% (1994)

Electricity:
capacity: 162,000 kW
production: 603 million kWh
consumption per capita: 30 kWh (1990)

Agriculture: coffee, tea, cotton, tobacco, cassava (tapioca),
potatoes, corn, millet, pulses; beef, goat meat, milk, poultry

Exports: $424 million (f.o.b., 1994)
commodities: coffee 97%, cotton, tea
partners: US 25%, UK 18%, France 11%, Spain 10%

Imports: $870 million (c.i.f., 1994)
commodities: petroleum products, machinery, cotton piece goods,
metals, transportation equipment, food
partners: Kenya 25%, UK 14%, Italy 13%

External debt: $3.2 billion (1994)

Economic aid:
recipient: ODA, $NA

Currency: 1 Ugandan shilling (USh) = 100 cents

Exchange rates: Ugandan shillings (USh) per US$1 - 1,032.6
(November 1995), 979.4 (1994), 1,195.0 (1993), 1,133.8 (1992), 734.0
(1991)

Fiscal year: 1 July - 30 June

Transportation
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Railways:
total: 1,241 km single track
narrow gauge: 1,241 km 1.000-m gauge
note:: a program to rehabilitate the railroad is underway (1995)

Highways:
total: 30,320 km
paved: 3,480 km
unpaved: 26,840 km (1987 est.)

Waterways: Lake Victoria, Lake Albert, Lake Kyoga, Lake George,
Lake Edward; Victoria Nile, Albert Nile

Ports: Entebbe, Jinja, Port Bell

Merchant marine:
total: 3 roll-on/roll-off cargo ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling
5,091 GRT/2,743 DWT (1995 est.)

Airports:
total: 21
with paved runways over 3 047 m: 2
with paved runways 1 524 to 2 437 m: 1
with paved runways under 914 m: 7
with unpaved runways 2 438 to 3 047 m: 1
with unpaved runways 1 524 to 2 437 m: 5
with