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Uganda

 

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 Uganda
All information: Uganda
 		 United States
All information: United States
 
Area:241,550 km² 9,831,510 km²
Population:44,270,000 328,240,000

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Government

Government form:Presidential republic Federal presidential republic
Independent since:1962 n.Chr. 1776 n.Chr.
Capital:Kampala Washington, D.C.


Population

Inhabitants per km²:183.3 33.4
Life expectancy males:60.7 years 76.1 years
Life expectancy females:65.2 years 81.1 years
Average age:15.8 years 37.4 years
Birthrate:38.14 ‰ 11.60 ‰
Deathrate:6.55 ‰ 8.60 ‰
Migrationrate:-3.50 ‰ 3.00 ‰


Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
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Political stability:52 75
Civil rights:24 96
Health:3 68
Security:62 63
Climate:70 64
Cost of Living:59 36
Popularity:33 92


Economy

Currency:Ugandan Schilling (1 UGX = 100 Cents) US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:1.8 % 3.7 %
Inflation rate:2.87 % 1.81 %
Cost of Living:47.00 % 110.20 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:33.70 % 36.60 %
Average income:697 € 58,741 €
Corruption index:28 (very bad) 69 (moderate)
 
 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Gross domestic product:30,717 Mio €0.69 M € 19,140,420 M €58.31 M €
Gross national product:30,684 Mio €0.69 M € 19,280,405 M €58.74 M €
Exported goods:5,471 M €0.12 M € 2,231,382 M €6.80 M €
Imported goods:8,522 M €0.19 M € 2,782,006 M €8.48 M €

Infrastructure

 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Roadways:20,544 km0.46 km 6,586,610 km20.07 km
Railways:1,244 km0.03 km 293,564 km0.89 km
Harbours:10.000 3,6730.011
Airports:470.001 13,5130.041


Energy balance

 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Energy consumption:3.11 bn kWh70,161.02 kWh 3,902.00 bn kWh11.89 m kWh
Energy production:3.46 bn kWh78,225.25 kWh 4,095.00 bn kWh12.48 m kWh
Energy export:121.00 m kWh2,733.25 kWh 9.70 bn kWh29,536.36 kWh
Energy imports:50.00 m kWh1,129.44 kWh 72.72 bn kWh221,545.53 kWh
CO2 emissions:5.68 m t128.31 t 5.01 bn t15,251.98 t


Telecommunication

International dialing:+256 +1
Internet domain:.ug .us
 
 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Landlines:186,9024 109,961,000335
Mobile phones:24,472,033553 422,000,0001,286
Internet server:32,6831 505,000,0001,539
Internet users:10,494,785237 286,441,872873



Healthcare system

Hospital beds/1000 inh.:0.50 2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:0.09 2.59
Diabetes sufferers:2.5 % 10.8 %
Tuberculosis sufferers:2.0 % 0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:72.0 % 77.0 %
Smokers:10.0 % 21.8 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Uganda and United States

Daytime temperatures:25.9 °C 18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:17.1 °C 7.2 °C
Relative humidity:77 % 67 %
Absolute humidity:15 g/m³ 9 g/m³
Rain days per year:129.6 85.2
Sunshine hours per day:6.6 7.2


Native languages

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 %
Italian:n/a 0.6 %
German:n/a 0.6 %
Tagalog:n/a 0.4 %
Polish:n/a 0.3 %
Korean:n/a 0.3 %
Portuguese:n/a 0.2 %
Vietnamese:n/a 0.2 %
Japanese:n/a 0.2 %
other:26.0 % 2.8 %


Religions

Christianity:83.9 % 78.5 %
Islam:12.1 % 0.6 %
Jewry:n/a 1.8 %
nondenominational:0.9 % n/a
Buddhism:n/a 0.7 %
other:3.1 % 18.4 %