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 is
the major export crop and 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. In
1990-99, 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. Ongoing Ugandan involvement in the war in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo, growing corruption within the
government, and slippage in the government's determination to press
reforms raise doubts about the continuation of strong growth.

purchasing power parity - $24.2 billion (1999 est.)

5.5% (1999 est.)

purchasing power parity - $1,060 (1999 est.)

agriculture: 44%
industry: 17%
services: 39% (1997 est.)

55% (1993 est.)

lowest 10%: 3%
highest 10%: 33.4% (1992)

7% (1999)

8.361 million (1993 est.)

agriculture 82%, industry 5%, services
13% (1999 est.)

NA%

revenues: $959 million
expenditures: $1.04 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA
(FY98/99 est.)

sugar, brewing, tobacco, cotton textiles, cement

9.3% (FY98/99)

792 million kWh (1998)

fossil fuel: 0.88%
hydro: 99.12%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (1998)

622 million kWh (1998)

115 million kWh (1998)

0 kWh (1998)

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

$471 million (f.o.b., 1999)

coffee, fish and fish products, tea; electrical
products, iron and steel

EU 51% (Netherlands 6%, Switzerland 6%, Germany
5%, Belgium 4%), Kenya 5% (1998)

$1.1 billion (f.o.b., 1999)

vehicles, petroleum, medical supplies; cereals

Kenya 12%, UK 6%, Japan 4%, India 4%, South Africa
(1998)

$3.1 billion (1998 est.)

$839.9 million (1997)

1 Ugandan shilling (USh) = 100 cents

Ugandan shillings (USh) per US$1 - 1,525.8 (January
2000), 1,454.8 (1999), 1,240.2 (1998), 1,083.0 (1997), 1,046.1 (1996),
968.9 (1995)

1 July - 30 June