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:	44,270,000	328,240,000
Inhabitants/km²:	183.3	33.4
Life expectancy males:	Ø 61 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 65 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 15.8 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	38.14 ‰	11.60 ‰
Deathrate:	6.55 ‰	8.60 ‰
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:	52	72
Civil rights:	30	83
Health:	11	74
Climate:	69	64
Cost of Living:	58	34
Popularity:	29	86

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:	2.87 %	1.81 %
Cost of Living:	39.48 %	118.33 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	33.70 %	36.60 %
Average income:	780 US$	65,850 US$
Corruption index:	27 (very bad)	67 (moderate)

	UGA: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	35,165 M US$	0.79 M US$	21,433,226 M US$	65.30 M US$
Gross national product:	34,748 M US$	0.78 M US$	21,615,818 M US$	65.85 M US$
Exported goods:	6,125 M US$	0.14 M US$	2,528,267 M US$	7.70 M US$
Imported goods:	9,541 M US$	0.22 M US$	3,105,132 M US$	9.46 M US$

Infrastructure

	UGA: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	20,544 km	0.46 km	6,586,610 km	20.07 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	70,161.02 kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.89 m kWh
Energy production:	3.46 bn kWh	78,225.25 kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.48 m kWh
Energy export:	121.00 m kWh	2,733.25 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,536.36 kWh
Energy imports:	50.00 m kWh	1,129.44 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	221,545.53 kWh
CO2 emissions:	5.68 m t	128.31 t	5.01 bn t	15,251.98 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	327
Mobile phones:	24,472,000	553	404,577,000	1233
Internet server:	32,683	1	505,000,000	1539
Internet users:	10,494,771	237	286,441,830	873

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 %