Uganda
Republic of Uganda
- Region
- Africa · Eastern Africa
- Capital
- Kampala
- Population
- 51,384,894 (2025)
- Government
- presidential republic
- Currency
- Ugandan shilling (UGX)
- Official languages
- English, Swahili
- Spoken languages
- English (official), Ganda or Luganda (most widely used of the Niger-Congo languages and the language used most often in the capital), other Niger-Congo languages, Nilo-Saharan languages
- Written scripts
- Latin
- Area
- 241,550 km²
- Coastline
- Landlocked
- UN member
- Yes
- Affiliations
- African Union, COMESA, EAC, IMF, OIC, WCO, WTO
- Borders
- DR Congo , Kenya , Rwanda , South Sudan , Tanzania
Political stability
48 / 100
Economic stability
48 / 100
Population stability
28 / 100
0–100, higher is more stable. Political: World Bank governance score. Economic: government effectiveness, regulatory quality, and inflation proximity to 2% (World Bank). Population: stability of growth and net migration rates (World Bank).
Trade profile
- Key exports
- gold, coffee, fish, refined petroleum, tobacco (2023)
- Key imports
- refined petroleum, gold, plastics, packaged medicine, palm oil (2023)
- Natural resources
- copper, cobalt, hydropower, limestone, salt, arable land, gold
- Primary route
- Indian Ocean gateways (Mombasa, Dar es Salaam, Djibouti) to Asia and the Gulf
- Secondary route
- Suez corridor to Europe
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Trade research
- WTO trade profile — tariffs, trade in goods and services, top partners
- World Bank country data — GDP, trade share of GDP, logistics indicators
- OEC trade profile — export/import composition and partners, visualized
- ITC Trade Map — detailed trade statistics by product (ITC/UN Comtrade)
- CIA World Factbook — geography, economy, transportation infrastructure
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Sources: mledoze/countries (ODbL), CIA World Factbook (public domain), World Bank Open Data (CC BY-4.0), flag-icons (MIT). Stability scores are xin.bz composites of the cited World Bank indicators; routes and commodity notes are xin.bz assessments. Informational only — verify with official sources.