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Economic indicators

	2015	2020	2025
GDP: Gross domestic product (million current US$)	30 173	38 061	51 023^b
GDP growth rate (annual %, const. 2015 prices)	6.4	-1.4	5^b
GDP per capita (current US$)	804	856	1 049.0^b
Economy: Agriculture^f,g (% of Gross Value Added)	23.3	26.6	25.5^b
Economy: Industry^g,h (% of Gross Value Added)	29.4	28.5	28.5^b
Economy: Services and other activity^g,i (% of GVA)	47.3	44.9	46^b
Employment in agriculture^j (% of employed)	72.3	64.1	65.9^b
Employment in industry^j (% of employed)	6.8	7.5	7.1^b
Employment in services^j (% employed)	20.9	28.5	27^b
Unemployment^j (% of labour force)	2.7	3.8	3.1
Labour force participation rate^j (female/male pop. %)	73.1 / 77.0	74.7 / 82.8	76.6 / 85.4
CPI: Consumer Price Index (2010=100)	151^k	111^l	132^l,e
Agricultural production index (2014-2016=100)	104	143	143^b
International trade: exports (million current US$)	2 267	4 149	8 050^j,e
International trade: imports (million current US$)	5 528	8 251	12 521^j,e
International trade: balance (million current US$)	- 3 261	- 4 102	- 4 471^j,e
Balance of payments, current account (million US$)	- 1 649	- 3 598	- 3 766^b

Social indicators

	2015	2020	2025
Population growth rate (average annual %)	3.1	3.2	2.7^a
Urban population (% of total population)	22.1	24.4^d	...
Urban population growth rate (average annual %)	6^m	...	...
Fertility rate, total (live births per woman)	5.3	4.6	4.1^a
Life expectancy at birth (females/males, years)	66.3 / 61.2	69.4 / 63.4	71.6 / 65.7^a
Population age distributionⁿ (0-14/60+ years old, %)	48.1 / 3.1	45.2 / 3.3	43.1 / 3.5^a
International migrant stock^o (000/% of total pop.)	823.2 / 2.2	1 776.0 / 4.0	2 057.8 / 4.1^e
Refugees and others of concern to UNHCR (000)	646.5	3 776.4	1 769.3^p,e
Under five mortality rate (per 1000 live births)	55.8	43.5	36.5^a
Health: Current expenditure^q (% of GDP)	5	5.2	4.4^r
Health: Physicians (per 1 000 pop.)	0.1	0.2	0.2^r
Education: Primary gross enrol. ratio (f/m per 100 pop.)	104.4 / 104.1	106.8 / 105.5^s	... / ...
Education: Lowr. sec. gross enrol. ratio (f/m per 100 pop.)	... / ...	29.7 / 31.5^s	... / ...
Education: Upr. Sec. gross enrol. ratio (f/m per 100 pop.)	... / ...	7.7 / 11.9^s	... / ...
Intentional homicide rate (per 100 000 pop.)	12.3^t	10	9^b
Seats held by women in national parliaments (%)	35	34.9^u	34^u

Environment and infrastructure indicators

	2015	2020	2025
Individuals using the Internet (per 100 inhabitants)	5.8^j	7.4	15.3^j,b
Research & Development expenditure (% of GDP)	0.1^v,t	...	...
Threatened species (number)	188	266	333^e
Forested area (% of land area)	12.7	11.7	11.2^r
CO2 emission estimates (million tons/tons per capita)	4.3 / 0.1	5.1 / 0.1	5.5 / 0.1^r
Energy production, primary (Petajoules)	755	874	926^r
Energy supply per capita (Gigajoules)	22	24	24^r
Tourist/visitor arrivals at national borders (000)	1 303	473	513^w
Important sites for terrestrial biodiversity protected (%)	61.6	61.6	61.6^e
Pop. using safely managed drinking water (urban/rural, %)	35.6 / 5.7	42.3 / 8.2	45.1 / 9.3^r
Pop. using safely managed sanitation (urban/rural, %)	21.8 / 15.2	22.2 / 15.9	22.4 / 16.2^r
Net Official Development Assist. received (% of GNI)	5.16	8.38	4.67^b

Footnotes

a		Projected est. (medium fertility variant).
b		2023
c		Data includes Kira, Makindye Ssabagabo and Nansana.
d		2019
e		2024
f		Exc. irrigation canals and landscaping care.
g		Data classified according to ISIC Rev. 4.
h		Exc. publishing activities. Inc. irrigation canals.
i		Inc. publishing activities and landscape care. Exc. repair of personal and household goods.
j		Estimate.
k		Base: 1 July 2009 - 30 June 2010=100.
l		Base: 1 July 2016 - 30 June 2017=100.
m		Data refers to a 5-year period preceding the reference year.
n		Calculated by the UN Statistics Division.
o		Including refugees.
p		This figure presents an estimate of persons with undetermined nationality/at risk of statelessness, based on joint outreach mission conducted by the Government of Uganda and UNHCR in September/October 2021, that aimed to provide estimate numbers through self-identification of communities not recognized under the Third Schedule of the 1995 Constitution.
q		Data refer to fiscal years beginning 1 July.
r		2022
s		2017
t		2014
u		Data at 1 January of the reporting year.
v		Break in the time series.
w		2021