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IndicatorUGAUgandaSub-Saharan Africa
Governance
Civil liberties index (V-Dem)0-10.32rank #124
Control of Corruption0-100 percentile25.3rank #170
Deliberative democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.23rank #102
Egalitarian democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.14rank #127
Freedom of expression index (V-Dem)0-10.43rank #109
Government Effectiveness0-100 percentile44.5rank #132
Human rights index (V-Dem)0-10.32rank #124
Military spending% GDP1.9%rank #66
Participatory democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.16rank #112
Political Stability & Absence of Violence0-100 percentile48.4rank #174
Regulatory Quality0-100 percentile46.6rank #135
Rule of Law0-100 percentile44.3rank #149
Rule of law index (V-Dem)0-10.21rank #122
V-Dem electoral democracy0-10.25rank #111
V-Dem liberal democracy0-10.17rank #110
Voice & Accountability0-100 percentile39.1rank #154
Women in parliament% seats34.1%rank #47
Women's political empowerment index (V-Dem)0-10.64rank #105
Economy
Agricultural employment% employment64.9%rank #9
Agriculture value added% GDP26.1%rank #14
Annual working hours per workerhours2,127.9rank #43
Capital stock per worker2017 US$ per worker11,479.5rank #163
Current account balance% GDP-7.8%rank #138
Employment-to-population ratio%78%rank #9
External debt stocks% GNI39.2%rank #47
FDI net inflows% GDP6%rank #40
GDPcurrent US$61.99Brank #88
GDP growth%6.3%rank #25
GDP per capita (nominal)current US$1,206.3rank #167
GDP per capita, PPP2021 intl $2,980.4rank #169
GNI per capita (PPP)2021 intl $2,736.4rank #175
Government expenditure% GDP16.6%rank #76
Gross capital formation% GDP22.6%rank #67
Gross savings% GDP24.7%rank #58
High-technology exports% manuf. exports1.9%rank #103
Human capital indexindex2.4rank #98
Industry value added% GDP24.3%rank #82
Inflation%3.6%rank #101
Labour force participation rate%80.2%rank #8
Personal remittances received% GDP2.7%rank #69
R&D expenditure% GDP0.44%rank #53
Researchers in R&Dper million81.3rank #70
Tax revenue% GDP12.6%rank #70
Trade openness% GDP50.2%rank #104
Unemployment% labor force2.7%rank #30
Unemployment rate (ILO modelled)%2.8%rank #33
Vulnerable employment% employment74.4%rank #160
Youth unemployment% ages 15-244.2%rank #21
Youth unemployment rate (ILO modelled)% ages 15-244.2%rank #21
Health
Basic drinking water access% pop63%rank #161
Basic sanitation access% pop23.9%rank #168
Child mortalityper 1004.9rank #127
Daily caloric supply per capitakcal2,377.7rank #158
DTP3 immunization coverage%91%rank #9
Health spending% GDP4.2%rank #149
Infant mortalityper 1k births35.9rank #121
Life expectancyyears68.5rank #166
Maternal mortalityper 100k170rank #75
Measles immunization% children90%rank #10
Measles (MCV1) immunization coverage%90%rank #10
Physiciansper 1k0.19rank #97
PM2.5 air pollution exposureug/m331.2rank #155
Road traffic deathsper 100k29.4rank #116
Smoking prevalence% adults7.5%rank #11
Suicide mortality rateper 100k5.5rank #67
Tuberculosis incidenceper 100k197rank #119
Under-5 mortality rateper 1k births48.7rank #166
Undernourishment% pop22%rank #63
Education
Adult literacy%77%rank #26
Education spending% GDP2.6%rank #138
Expected years of schoolingyears11.6rank #143
Mean years of schoolingyears6.3rank #146
Primary completion rate% relevant age53.3%rank #131
Primary enrollment% gross106.2%rank #39
Secondary enrollment% gross24.1%rank #143
Tertiary enrollment% gross4.6%rank #133
Demography
Crude birth rateper 1,00034.4rank #11
Fertility ratebirths/woman4.2rank #19
Median age of populationyears16.5rank #208
Net migration rateper 1,000-2.6rank #164
Populationpeople51.38Mrank #31
Population growth%2.7%rank #21
Projected life expectancy in 2050 (medium)years73.4rank #159
Projected population in 2050 (medium)thousands85,431.2rank #20
Total age dependency ratioper 100 working-age85.5rank #12
Urban population%31.9%rank #181
Climate
CO₂ emissionst6.33Mrank #130
CO₂ per capitat0.13rank #199
Electricity access% pop55.3%rank #59
Electricity from coal% generation0%rank #1
Electricity from hydro% generation86.1%rank #11
Electricity from solar% generation2.9%rank #96
Electricity from wind% generation0%rank #104
Electric power consumptionkWh per capita95.3rank #142
Forest area% land11%rank #161
GHG emissions per capitatCO2e per capita1.3rank #19
Power-sector CO2 intensitygCO2/kWh58.5rank #15
Renewable electricity%97.1%rank #6
Renewable energy share%90.9%rank #3
Total GHG emissions incl. LULUCFMtCO2e64.3rank #114
Society
Asylum seekerspeople11,401rank #123
Extreme poverty% pop59.8%rank #36
Female labor participation%75.6%rank #9
Fixed broadband subscriptionsper 1000.21rank #143
Gender Development Indexratio0.91rank #85
Gender Inequality Index0-10.52rank #125
Gini indexindex42.7rank #58
Homicide rateper 100k9rank #62
Human Development Index0-10.58rank #125
Inequality-adjusted HDI0-10.4rank #112
Internally displaced personspeople29,776rank #2
Internet users% pop8.9%rank #179
Life satisfaction0-104.5rank #115
Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI0-10.57rank #94
Poverty gap at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0.1rank #172
Poverty headcount at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0.33rank #141
Poverty headcount at $3.65/dayproportion (0-1)0.64rank #172
Poverty headcount at $6.85/dayproportion (0-1)0.88rank #190
Refugees hosted (by country of asylum)people1.94Mrank #3
Refugees originating (by country of origin)people12,792rank #118
Youth NEET rate%13.4%rank #62
Risk
Battle-related deaths (state-based)deaths/year4rank #2
Deaths in armed conflictsdeaths2rank #3
Hazard & exposure0-106.1rank #53
Human hazard & exposure0-107.7rank #56
INFORM risk score0-106.5rank #52
Lack of coping capacity0-106.6rank #56
Lack of infrastructure coping capacity0-106.8rank #58
Lack of institutional coping capacity0-106.4rank #43
Natural hazard & exposure0-103.8rank #25
Organized-violence deaths (total)deaths/year4rank #5
Socio-economic vulnerability0-106.6rank #63
Vulnerability0-106.9rank #57
Vulnerable groups0-107.1rank #63
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