Location: Africa
Independence: 9 October 1962
(from the UK)
Size: comparison is slightly smaller than the state of Oregon
Capital: Kampala
Population: 35,873,253 (2012 est)
Age Structure:
0-14 years: 49.9%
15-64 years: 48.1%
65 years and over: 2.1%
Median Age: 15.1 years
People Living with HIV/AIDS: 1.2 million
Literacy: 66.8% (age 15 and older
who can read and write)
Climate: tropical; generally rainy with two dry seasons
(December to February, June to August); semiarid in northeast
Terrain: mostly plateau with rim of mountains
Current Environmental Issues: draining of wetlands for
agricultural use; deforestation; overgrazing; soil erosion; water hyacinth
infestation in Lake Victoria; widespread poaching
Languages: English (official national language, taught in
grade schools, used in courts of law and by most newspapers and some radio
broadcasts), Ganda or Luganda, and various others
Religion: Roman Catholic 41.9%, Protestant 42%, Muslim
12.1%, other 3.1%, none 0.9%
Population: 35,873,253 (2012 est)
GDP: $16 billion
Exports: coffee, fish and fish products, tea, cotton,
flowers, horticultural products; gold
Exchange Rate: Ugandan shillings (UGX) per US dollar - 2,567.1
(2011)
Internet Hosts: 19,927 (2010)
Internet Users: 3.2 million (2009)
Cell Phones: 12.828 million (2010)
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