International Rankings of Uganda 2024, country comparisons

This table lists the international rankings of Uganda, in all categories that are published in the CIA World Factbook, and those that we derived from them. Additional international rankings of Uganda, can be found in the main country ranks menu.
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Ranked Data	Rank	Value	Year
Communications
Broadband - fixed subscriptions - subscriptions per 100 inhabitants	60	0.10	2020
Broadband - fixed subscriptions - total	141	58594	2020
Internet users - percent of population	110	10.00 %	2021
Internet users - total	101	4.600 million	2021
Telephones - fixed lines - total subscriptions	133	116660	2022
Telephones - mobile cellular - subscriptions per 100 inhabitants	82	66.00	2021
Telephones - mobile cellular - total subscriptions	49	30.000 million	2021
Economy
Average household expenditures - on alcohol and tobacco	51	1.00 % of household expenditures	2018
Average household expenditures - on food	10	44.20 % of household expenditures	2018
Budget - expenditures	108	6.896 billion US Dollars	2019
Budget - revenues	111	5.088 billion US Dollars	2019
Budget surplus (+) or deficit (-)	68	4.10 % of GDP	N/A
Current account balance	175	3.553 billion US Dollars	2021
Debt - external	107	13.850 billion US Dollars	2019
Exchange rates	12	3587.05	N/A
Exports	123	6.177 billion US Dollars	2021
GDP (official exchange rate)	103	34.683 billion US Dollars	2019
GDP - composition by end use - exports of goods and services	154	18.80 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by end use - government consumption	126	8.00 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by end use - household consumption	55	74.30 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by end use - imports of goods and services	28	25.10 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by end use - investment in fixed capital	57	23.90 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by end use - investment in inventories	53	0.30 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by sector of origin - agriculture	20	28.20 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by sector of origin - industry	113	21.10 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by sector of origin - services	142	50.70 % of GDP	2017
Gini Index coefficient - distribution of family income	31	43 %	2019
Household income or consumption by percentage share - highest 10%	32	36.10 % share of income accruing to lowest and highest 10% of population	2009
Household income or consumption by percentage share - lowest 10%	27	2.40 % share of income accruing to lowest and highest 10% of population	N/A
Imports	111	10.705 billion US Dollars	2021
Industrial production growth rate	106	3.47 %	2021
Inflation rate (consumer prices)	129	2.20 %	2021
Labor force	39	16.995 million US Dollars	2021
Population below poverty line	85	21 %	2016
Public debt	119	44.19 % of GDP	2020
Real GDP (purchasing power parity)	91	103.007 billion US Dollars	2021
Real GDP growth rate	123	3.54 %	2021
Real GDP per capita	161	2200 US Dollars	2021
Remittances	87	3	2020
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold	115	3.359 billion US Dollars	2018
Taxes and other revenues	171	11.39 % of GDP	N/A
Unemployment rate	183	2.94 %	2021
Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24) - female	144	5.30 %	N/A
Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24) - male	147	3.40 %	N/A
Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24) - total	147	4.30 %	2021
Energy
Carbon dioxide emissions - from petroleum and other liquids	112	5.841 million metric tonnes of CO2	2019
Carbon dioxide emissions - total	134	5.841 million	2019
Electricity - consumption	130	4.207 billion kWh	2019
Electricity - exports	80	299.200 million kWh	2019
Electricity - imports	106	104.200 million kWh	2019
Electricity - installed generating capacity	115	2.397 million kWh	2020
Electricity - transmission/distribution losses	108	1.157 billion kWh	2019
Electricity access - electrification - rural areas	53	36	2021
Electricity access - electrification - total population	66	45	2021
Electricity access - electrification - urban areas	50	72	2021
Electricity generation sources - biomass and waste	15	10.80 %	2020
Electricity generation sources - fossil fuels	154	1.30 %	2020
Electricity generation sources - hydroelectricity	13	86.40 %	2020
Electricity generation sources - solar	53	1.60 %	2020
Energy consumption per capita	182	2.943 million Btu/person	2019
Natural gas - proven reserves	71	14.158 billion cubic meters	2021
Petroleum - crude oil estimated reserves	30	2.500 billion bbl/day	2021
Petroleum - refined petroleum consumption	110	40900 bbl/day	2019
Refined petroleum products - imports	101	31490 bbl/day	2015
Environment
Air pollutants - carbon dioxide emissions	120	6 megatons	2016
Air pollutants - methane emissions	51	30 megatons	2020
Air pollutants - particulate matter emissions	42	31 micrograms per cubic meter	2019
Land use - agricultural land	19	71	2018
Land use - arable land	22	34	2018
Land use - forest	134	15	2018
Land use - permanent crops	24	11	2018
Land use - permanent pasture	61	26	2018
Revenue from forest resources	7	7 % of GDP	2018
Total renewable water resources	86	60.100 billion cubic meters	2020
Total water withdrawal - agricultural	109	260.000 million cubic meters	2020
Total water withdrawal - industrial	90	50.000 million cubic meters	2020
Total water withdrawal - municipal	81	330.000 million cubic meters	2020
Urbanization - rate of urbanization	2	5.41	N/A
Urbanization - urban population	164	27	2023
Geography
Area - land	85	197100 sq km	N/A
Area - total	83	241038 sq km	N/A
Area - water	16	43938 sq km	N/A
Elevation - highest point	24	5110 meters	N/A
Elevation - lowest point	6	614 meters	N/A
Irrigated land	135	105 sq km	2013
Land boundaries - total	72	2729 km	N/A
Land use - agricultural land	19	71	2018
Land use - arable land	22	34	2018
Land use - forest	134	15	2018
Land use - permanent crops	24	11	2018
Land use - permanent pasture	61	26	2018
Population Density	58	242.16 Persons per sq km	N/A
Military
Military expenditures	27	2 % of GDP	2022
Population
Alcohol consumption per capita - beer	109	1 liters of pure alcohol	2019
Alcohol consumption per capita - other alcohols	5	5 liters of pure alcohol	2019
Alcohol consumption per capita - spirits	103	1 liters of pure alcohol	2019
Alcohol consumption per capita - total	56	7 liters of pure alcohol	2019
Birth rate	5	40.30 births/1,000 population	2023
Child marriage - men married by age 18	16	6	2016
Child marriage - women married by age 15	20	7	N/A
Child marriage - women married by age 18	12	34	N/A
Children under the age of 5 years underweight	49	8 %	1920
Contraceptive prevalence rate	72	50.20 %	2021
Current health expenditure	76	4 % of GDP	2020
Currently married women (ages 15-49)	72	58 %	2023
Death rate	78	4.90 deaths/1,000 population	2023
Dependency ratios - elderly dependency ratio	153	3.20 %	N/A
Dependency ratios - potential support ratio	3	31.70 %	2021
Dependency ratios - total dependency ratio	10	88.20 %	N/A
Dependency ratios - youth dependency ratio	9	85.10 %	N/A
Drinking water source - improved	47	93 % of population	N/A
Drinking water source - rural	45	20 % of population	N/A
Drinking water source - total	30	17 % of population	2020
Drinking water source - unimproved	18	8 % of population	N/A
Education expenditures	59	3 % of GDP	2021
Gross reproduction rate	7	2.59 %	2023
Infant mortality rate - female	51	26.00 deaths/1,000 live births	N/A
Infant mortality rate - male	49	32.80 deaths/1,000 live births	N/A
Infant mortality rate - total	54	29.40 deaths/1,000 live births	2023
Life expectancy at birth - female	108	72 years	N/A
Life expectancy at birth - male	111	67 years	N/A
Life expectancy at birth - total population	108	69 years	2023
Literacy - definition	2	15	N/A
Literacy - female	84	74 %	2021
Literacy - male	64	84 %	N/A
Literacy - total population	73	79 %	N/A
Maternal mortality ratio	29	284.00 deaths/100,000 live births	2020
Median age - female	169	17 years	N/A
Median age - male	164	15 years	N/A
Median age - total	158	16 years	2023
Mother's mean age at first birth	79	19	2016
Net migration rate	88	3.20 migrant(s)/1,000 population	N/A
Obesity - adult prevalence rate	134	5.30 %	2016
Physicians density	146	0.15 physicians/1,000 population	2020
Population	31	47.730 million	2023
Population growth rate	8	3.22 %	2023
Sanitation facility access - improved	82	67 % of population	N/A
Sanitation facility access - rural	19	73 % of population	N/A
Sanitation facility access - total	12	63 % of population	2020
Sanitation facility access - unimproved	13	33 % of population	N/A
Sex ratio - 0-14 years	13	1.03 male(s)/female	N/A
Sex ratio - 15-64 years	34	0.89 male(s)/female	N/A
Sex ratio - 65 years and over	39	0.74 male(s)/female	N/A
Sex ratio - at birth	11	1.03 male(s)/female	N/A
Sex ratio - total population	24	0.95 male(s)/female	N/A
Total fertility rate	7	5.26 children born/woman	2023
Urbanization - rate of urbanization	2	5.41	N/A
Urbanization - urban population	164	27	2023
Transportation
Airports	90	39	2024
National air transport system - annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers	151	21537	2018
National air transport system - inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers	78	26.00	N/A
National air transport system - number of registered air carriers	22	6	2020
Railways - narrow gauge	25	1244	2014
Railways - total	58	1244 km	2014
Roadways - paved	66	4257 km	2017
Roadways - total	68	20544 km	2017
Waterways	66	907 km	2022

*CALCULATED FIGURES are those that we calculated from data presented by the CIA World Factbook. For example, we calculated population density by dividing the total population by the land area, the electricity consumption per capita by dividing electricity consumption by the total population, etc.

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