Country comparison Uganda : United States

General information

	Uganda	United States
Region:	Eastern Africa	North America
Area:	241,550 km²	9,831,510 km²
Government form:	Presidential republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1962 n.Chr.	1776 n.Chr.
Capital:	Kampala	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Uganda	United States
Population:	45,741,000	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	189.4	33.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 61 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 66 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 15.8 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	37.38 ‰	11.40 ‰
Deathrate:	6.38 ‰	8.70 ‰
Migrationrate:	-3.37 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
Visit also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life (in german only)

	Uganda	United States
Political stability:	51	74
Civil rights:	30	83
Health:	11	74
Climate:	69	64
Cost of Living:	58	16
Popularity:	38	72

Economy

	Uganda	United States
Currency:	Ugandan Schilling (1 UGX = 100 Cents)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	2.4 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	3.79 %	1.23 %
Cost of Living:	37.69 %	110.53 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	33.70 %	36.60 %
Average income:	800 US$	65,910 US$
Corruption index:	27 (very bad)	67 (moderate)

	UGA: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	37,372 M US$	0.82 M US$	20,936,600 M US$	63.54 M US$
Gross national product:	36,421 M US$	0.80 M US$	21,640,511 M US$	65.68 M US$
Exported goods:	6,125 M US$	0.13 M US$	2,127,248 M US$	6.46 M US$
Imported goods:	9,541 M US$	0.21 M US$	2,808,955 M US$	8.53 M US$

Infrastructure

	UGA: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	20,544 km	0.45 km	6,586,610 km	19.99 km
Railways:	1,244 km	0.03 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Harbours:	1	0.000	3,673	0.011
Airports:	47	0.001	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	UGA: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	3.11 bn kWh	67,904.07 kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.84 m kWh
Energy production:	3.46 bn kWh	75,708.88 kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.43 m kWh
Energy export:	121.00 m kWh	2,645.33 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,424.79 kWh
Energy imports:	50.00 m kWh	1,093.11 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	220,708.66 kWh
CO2 emissions:	6.13 m t	134.02 t	4.98 bn t	15,118.48 t

Telecommunication

	Uganda	United States
International dialing:	+256	+1
Internet domain:	.ug	.us

	UGA total	UGA per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	186,902	4	107,281,000	326
Mobile phones:	24,472,000	535	404,577,000	1228
Internet server:	32,683	1	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	10,494,771	229	286,441,830	869

Healthcare system

	Uganda	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	0.50	2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.09	2.59
Diabetes:	2.5 %	10.8 %
HIV:	2.61 %	0.22 %
Tuberculosis:	2.0 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	74.0 %	79.0 %
Smokers:	9.8 %	25.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Uganda and United States

	Uganda	United States
Daytime temperatures:	25.9 °C	18.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	17.1 °C	7.3 °C
Rel. humidity:	77 %	67 %
Rain days:	10.8	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	6.6	7.2

Native languages

	Uganda	United States
English:	n/a	82.1 %
Ganda:	18.1 %	n/a
Nkole:	10.7 %	n/a
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Kiga:	8.3 %	n/a
Soga:	8.2 %	n/a
Teso:	6.0 %	n/a
Lango:	5.9 %	n/a
Lugbara:	4.7 %	n/a
Gisu:	4.5 %	n/a
Acholian:	4.4 %	n/a
Kinyarwanda:	3.2 %	n/a
Chinese:	n/a	0.9 %
French:	n/a	0.7 %
German:	n/a	0.6 %
Italian:	n/a	0.6 %
Tagalog:	n/a	0.4 %
Korean:	n/a	0.3 %
Polish:	n/a	0.3 %
Japanese:	n/a	0.2 %
Portuguese:	n/a	0.2 %
Russian:	n/a	0.2 %
Vietnamese:	n/a	0.2 %
other:	26.0 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Uganda	United States
Christianity:	83.9 %	78.5 %
Islam:	12.1 %	1.1 %
Jewry:	n/a	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Hinduism:	n/a	1.0 %
nondenominational:	0.9 %	n/a
Buddhism:	n/a	0.7 %
other:	3.1 %	15.3 %