ry: 5%
services: 13% (1999 est.)
Unemployment rate:
NA%
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:
43 (1999)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
6% (2006 est.)
Investment (gross fixed):
23.5% of GDP (2006 est.)
Budget:
revenues: $1.943 billion
expenditures: $1.994 billion; including capital expenditures of $NA
(2006 est.)
Public debt:
29.3% of GDP (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 - production by source:
fossil fuel: 0.9%
hydro: 99.1%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (2001)
Electricity - consumption:
1.596 billion kWh (2004)
Electricity - exports:
165 million kWh (2004)
Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (2004)
Oil - production:
0 bbl/day (2004 est.)
Oil - consumption:
10,890 bbl/day (2004 est.)
Oil - exports:
NA bbl/day
Oil - imports:
NA bbl/day
Natural gas - production:
0 cu m (2004 est.)
Natural gas - consumption:
0 cu m (2004 est.)
Current account balance:
$-423 million (2006 est.)
Exports:
$961.7 million f.o.b. (2006 est.)
Exports - commodities:
coffee, fish and fish products, tea, cotton, flowers, horticultural
products; gold
Exports - partners:
Kenya 15.1%, Belgium 9.9%, Netherlands 9.6%, France 7.1%, Germany
5.1% (2005)
Imports:
$1.945 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)
Imports - commodities:
capital equipment, vehicles, petroleum, medical supplies; cereals
Imports - partners:
Kenya 32.6%, UAE 8.8%, South Africa 5.8%, India 5.8%, China 5.3%,
UK 4.5%, US 4.2%, Japan 4.1% (2005)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$1.4 billion (2006 est.)
Debt - external:
$1.456 billion (2006 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:
$959 million (2003)
Currency (code):
Ugandan shilling (UGX)
Currency code:
UGX
Exchange rates:
Ugandan shillings per US dollar - 1,855.59 (2006), 1,780.7 (2005),
1,810.3 (2004), 1,963.7 (2003), 1,797.6 (2002)
Fiscal year:
1 July - 30 June
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