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UGANDA
Republic of Uganda GEOGRAPHY:
- Location:----------------- Eastern Africa
- Area:
Total area:--- 236,040 sq. km
Land area:--- 199,710 sq. km
- Capital city:-------------
Kampala
- Natural Resources:---------------- Copper, cobalt, limestone, salt.
PEOPLE:
- Population:---------------- 22,167,195
- Literacy rate:--------------
61.8% of total population, (Males:73.7%, Females:50.2%).
- Languages:------------------ English
(offical), Luganda, Swahili, Bantu languages, Nilotic languages.
- Religious:-----------------
33%-Roman Catholic, 33%-Protestant, 16%-Muslim, 18%-indigenous beliefs.
VITAL STATISTICS:
- Birth rate:------------- 45.08 (per 1,000 population)(1997)
- Death rate:-------------
20.98 (per 1,000 population)
- Infant Mortality rate:------------ 98.4 (deaths per 1,000 live
births)
- Fertility rate:--------------- 6.52 (per woman)
- Life
Expectancy at birth:
Total population:--- 39.69 (Males:39.3, Females:40.1).
GOVERNMENT:
- Type of Government:-------------- Republic
- Independence:-------------- October 9,
1962 (from UK)
- President:-------------- Lt. General Yoweri Kaguta Museveni.
ECONOMY:
- GDP:--------------- purchasing power parity - $16.8 billion (1995)
GDP
real growth rate:--- 7.1%
GDP per capita:--- $900
- Inflation rate (consumer
prices):------------- 7.3% (1996)
- National budget:
Revenues:--- $766.5 million
Expenditures:--- $894.3 million
- External Debt:-------------- $3.4 billion
- Currency:--------------- 1 Ugandan shilling = 100 cents
- Labor
force:--------------- 8.361 million (1993)
- Unemployment rate:---------------- NA%
- Agriculture:---------------- Coffee, tea, cotton, tobacco, cassava(tapioca), potatoes, corn, millet, pulses; beef,
goat meat, milk, poultry.
- Industries:--------------- Sugar, brewing, tobacco, cotton textiles,
cement.
- Exports:---------------- $555 million
Commodities:--- Coffee, cotton,
tea. - Imports:---------------- $1.18 billion
Commodities:--- Petroleum products,
machinery, cotton piece goods, metals, transportation equipment, food.
DEFENCE:
- Defence
Expenditures:--------------- Exchange rate conversion - $56 million, 1.7% of budget
Geography:Uganda is in east Africa lies across the Equator. It is bordered on the west by Zaire on
the north by the Sudan, on the east by Kenya and on the south by Tanzania and Rwanda.
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