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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:42,723,000 326,688,000

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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 km²:176.9 33.2
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:554 € 56,347 €
Corruption index:28 (very bad) 69 (moderate)
 
 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Gross domestic product:24,530 Mio €0.57 M € 18,351,356 M €56.17 M €
Gross national product:23,840 Mio €0.56 M € 18,433,513 M €56.43 M €
Exported goods:5,009 M €0.12 M € 2,234,305 M €6.84 M €
Imported goods:7,717 M €0.18 M € 2,794,991 M €8.56 M €

Infrastructure

 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Roadways:20,544 km0.48 km 6,586,610 km20.16 km
Railways:1,244 km0.03 km 293,564 km0.90 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 kWh72,700.65 kWh 3,902.00 bn kWh11.94 m kWh
Energy production:3.46 bn kWh81,056.78 kWh 4,095.00 bn kWh12.53 m kWh
Energy export:121.00 m kWh2,832.19 kWh 9.70 bn kWh29,676.68 kWh
Energy imports:50.00 m kWh1,170.33 kWh 72.72 bn kWh222,598.05 kWh
CO2 emissions:5.23 m t122.40 t 5.25 bn t16,083.50 t


Telecommunication

International dialing:+256 +1
Internet domain:.ug .us
 
 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Landlines:186,9024 109,961,000337
Mobile phones:24,472,033573 422,000,0001,292
Internet server:32,6831 505,000,0001,546
Internet users:10,128,174237 285,087,483873



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
Spanish:n/a 10.7 %
Nkole:10.7 % n/a
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
French:n/a 0.7 %
German:n/a 0.7 %
Chinese:n/a 0.6 %
Italian:n/a 0.6 %
Tagalog:n/a 0.4 %
Korean:n/a 0.3 %
Polish:n/a 0.3 %
Vietnamese:n/a 0.2 %
Portuguese:n/a 0.2 %
Japanese:n/a 0.2 %
other:26.0 % 3.0 %


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 %