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Uganda

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Uganda is a country. The capital city is Kampala, located in the Eastern Africa region of Africa. It has a land area of 200,520 km², a population of 48,656,601 people and uses the currency Ugandan shilling. The President is Yoweri Museveni.

Key facts

currency: Ugandan shilling
capital city: Kampala
region: Eastern Africa
continent: Africa
land area: 200,520 km²
population: 48,656,601 people
political leader: Yoweri Museveni (President)

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central government debt: 53.89 % of GDP
expense: 16.94 % of GDP
GDP: 48,768,955,863.32 current US$
inflation: 5.35 annual %
self-employed workers: 81.44 % of total employment
tax revenue: 12.55 % of GDP
unemployment: 2.79 % of total labor force
vulnerable employment: 74.70 % of total employment
armed forces personnel: 46,000 people
democracy score: 5.20
democracy type: Hybrid regime
internally displaced persons, by conflict and violence: 4,800 people
individuals using the Internet: 15.30 % of population
military expenditure: 1.98 % of GDP
net migration: -126,181 people
press freedom: 1.98
proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments: 33.81 %
birth rate: 36.22 per 1,000 people
death rate: 5.58 per 1,000 people
health expenditure per capita: 43.45 current US$
health expenditure: 4.67 % of GDP
incidence of HIV: 1.21 per 1,000 uninfected population
hospital beds: 0.50 per 1,000 people
life expectancy at birth: 64
suicide mortality rate: 4.60 per 100,000 population
agricultural land: 144,150.00 km²
carbon dioxide emissions (CO2): 7.22 Mt of CO2 equivalent
access to electricity: 47.10 % of population
fertility rate: 4.47 births per woman
forest area: 22,553 km²
greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, SF6): 53.37 Mt of CO2 equivalent
median age: 12.60
methane emissions: 36.71 Mt of CO2 equivalent
nitrous oxide emissions: 9.71 Mt of CO2 equivalent
female population: 24,533,989 people
male population: 24,122,612 people
renewable energy consumption: 90.90 % of total final energy consumption
rural land area: 201,994.67 km²
rural population: 35,630,742 people
urban land area: 3,854.12 km²
urban population: 13,025,859 people
urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters : 0.00 % of total population

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