The People
Population Size / Density:
2000 21.8million 90 per sq.km
2010 29.8million 124 per sq.km
2025 44.4million 184 per sq.km
N.B. No-one knows the numbers who perished during Amin’s dictatorship and the subsequent civil wars, famines and tribal killings, but estimates vary from 800 000 to 2million. The impact of AIDS has been devastating and slowed population growth.
People Groups:
160+ indigenous ethnic groups Bantu groups: 92.4%
Refugees:
Mainly Burundi, Ruwundi Hutu.
Also Somalis, Congolese
Capital: Kampala (1.2million) Other major cities: Entebbe (50,000)
Urbanites: 13%
Languages
Literacy: 62% Official language: English Other languages: 46
The Economy
Mainly agricultural, subsistence farming.
Three annual growing seasons.
Main export crop is coffee.
The healthy economy of the 1960’s was damaged by the expulsion of the Asian business community in 1972, then
virtually destroyed by tyranny and wars.
There has been a slow, but steady improvement since 1992, but continued warfare in the North and West and the ravages of AIDS and disease keep the majority of the population in deep poverty.
Health Development Index (H.D.I.)
0.404 - a ranking of 158th out of 174
Public debt: 48% of GNP
Average Annual Income: $330 per person – 1% of USA figure
Population Size / Density:
2000 21.8million 90 per sq.km
2010 29.8million 124 per sq.km
2025 44.4million 184 per sq.km
N.B. No-one knows the numbers who perished during Amin’s dictatorship and the subsequent civil wars, famines and tribal killings, but estimates vary from 800 000 to 2million. The impact of AIDS has been devastating and slowed population growth.
People Groups:
160+ indigenous ethnic groups Bantu groups: 92.4%
Refugees:
Mainly Burundi, Ruwundi Hutu.
Also Somalis, Congolese
Capital: Kampala (1.2million) Other major cities: Entebbe (50,000)
Urbanites: 13%
Languages
Literacy: 62% Official language: English Other languages: 46
The Economy
Mainly agricultural, subsistence farming.
Three annual growing seasons.
Main export crop is coffee.
The healthy economy of the 1960’s was damaged by the expulsion of the Asian business community in 1972, then
virtually destroyed by tyranny and wars.
There has been a slow, but steady improvement since 1992, but continued warfare in the North and West and the ravages of AIDS and disease keep the majority of the population in deep poverty.
Health Development Index (H.D.I.)
0.404 - a ranking of 158th out of 174
Public debt: 48% of GNP
Average Annual Income: $330 per person – 1% of USA figure
* Source: Operation World
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