Uganda Economy - 1986

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

GDP: $5.9 billion in 1983 (est.), approximately $220 per capita; real growth rate 5.0% (1983/84 est.)

Natural resources: copper, cobalt, limestone

Agriculture: main cash crop—coffee (180,600 metric tons produced in 1983/84, est.); other cash crops—cotton, tobacco, tea, sugar, fish, livestock

Major industries: agricultural processing (textiles, sugar, coffee, plywood, beer), cement, copper smelting, corrugated iron sheet, shoes, fertilizer

Electric power: 200,(XX) k W capacity (1985); 438 million kWh produced (1985), 29 kWh per capita

Exports: $380 million (f.o.b., 1983/84 est.); coffee (98%), cotton, tea

Imports. $509 million (c.i.f., 1983/84 est.); petroleum products, machinery, cotton piece goods, metals, transport equipment, food

Major trade partners: exports—31% US, 12% UK, 10% France; imports—32% Kenya, 11% UK, 11% FRG (1983)

Budget: current receipts 7.7% of GDP (FY83/84); expenditures, 6.4% of GDP; capital expenditures, 1.1% of GDP

Monetary conversion rate: 1,400 Uganda shillings=US$l (December 1985)

Fiscal year: 1 July-30 June

NOTE: The information regarding Uganda on this page is re-published from the 1986 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Uganda 1986 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Uganda 1986 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.