Names: conventional long form: Republic of Uganda conventional short form: Uganda

Capital City: Kampala

Population: 28,195,754 note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2006 est.)

GDP Per Capita: $1,800 (2006 est.)

Currency: Ugandan shilling (UGX)

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 (most widely used of the Niger-Congo languages, preferred for native language publications in the capital and may be taught in school), other Niger-Congo languages, Nilo-Saharan languages, Swahili, Arabic

Total Area: total: 236,040 sq km land: 199,710 sq km water: 36,330 sq km slightly smaller than Oregon

Region: Africa

Industries: sugar, brewing, tobacco, cotton textiles; cement, steel production

Agriculture: coffee, tea, cotton, tobacco, cassava (tapioca), potatoes, corn, millet, pulses, cut flowers; beef, goat meat, milk, poultry

Resources: copper, cobalt, hydropower, limestone, salt, arable land

Labor Force: 13.76 million (2006 est.)
agriculture: 82% industry: 5% services: 13% (1999 est.)

Exports: $961.7 million f.o.b. (2006 est.)
coffee, fish and fish products, tea, cotton, flowers, horticultural products; gold

Imports: $1.945 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)
capital equipment, vehicles, petroleum, medical supplies; cereals

Overview: Uganda has substantial natural resources, including fertile soils, regular rainfall, and sizable mineral deposits of copper and cobalt. Agriculture is the most important sector of the economy, employing over 80% of the work force. Coffee accounts for the bulk of export revenues. Since 1986, the government - with the support of foreign countries and international agencies - has acted to rehabilitate and stabilize the economy by undertaking currency reform, raising producer prices on export crops, increasing prices of petroleum products, and improving civil service wages. The policy changes are especially aimed at dampening inflation and boosting production and export earnings. During 1990-2001, the economy turned in a solid performance based on continued investment in the rehabilitation of infrastructure, improved incentives for production and exports, reduced inflation, gradually improved domestic security, and the return of exiled Indian-Ugandan entrepreneurs. In 2000, Uganda qualified for enhanced Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) debt relief worth $1.3 billion and Paris Club debt relief worth $145 million. These amounts combined with the original HIPC debt relief added up to about $2 billion. Growth for 2001-02 was solid despite continued decline in the price of coffee, Uganda's principal export. Growth in 2003-06 reflected an upturn in Uganda's export markets.

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In 2007 Missouri exported $620,808 in goods to Uganda. This ranks Uganda 113^th among the 223 international buyers of Missouri goods. Missouri exports to Uganda increased from the previous year by $53,019 a change of 9.34%. State exports to Uganda have decreased over the last 5 years by $11,433 a change of -1.81%. Missouri exports account for .00%. of all 2007 US exports to Uganda.