🇺🇬 Uganda
Republic of Uganda
Every statistic we track for Uganda — 138 indicators, each with its latest value and world rank. Open the interactive profile →
$4,192
66.4 yrs
4.49
0.17
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All indicators
📈 Economy
👥 Demographics
| Fertility Rate (WB) | 4.2 | #19/217 | 2024 |
| Gender Inequality Index | 0.5 | #31/172 | 2023 |
| Median Age | 17.1 | #226/235 | 2026 |
| Population | 36.8 | #35/229 | 2013 |
| Population | 49.7 | #32/191 | 2026 |
| Population Density | 264.1 | #58/235 | 2026 |
| Refugees by Country of Origin | 12,792 | #60/195 | 2025 |
| Urban Population | 31.3% | #189/213 | 2024 |
🌐 Connectivity
| Access to Electricity | 55.3% | #192/214 | 2024 |
| Get News from the Internet (Afrobarometer) | 16.2% | #37/39 | 2023 |
| Internet Users | 8.9% | #181/182 | 2024 |
| Mobile Subscriptions | 70.1 | #174/209 | 2022 |
| Read News Online | 29.8% | #53/75 | 2024 |
🫀 Health
🎓 Education
| Mean Years of Schooling | 6.7 | #118/146 | 2020 |
🌱 Environment
| CO₂ per Capita (WB) | 0.2 | #183/203 | 2024 |
| Energy Use per Person | 497 | #119/149 | 2023 |
| Environmental Performance Index | 35.8 | #153/179 | 2024 |
| Renewable Electricity | 97.1% | #12/195 | 2024 |
🏛️ Governance
📰 Media & news
| Press Freedom Index | 42 | #128/177 | 2026 |
🛡️ Safety
| Felt Unsafe in the Neighbourhood (Afrobarometer) | 54.4% | #17/39 | 2023 |
| Global Peace Index | 2.2 | #49/160 | 2025 |
| Homicide Rate | 11.9 | #40/204 | 2023 |
| Road Traffic Deaths | 16 | #70/195 | 2021 |
| Trust in the Police (Afrobarometer) | 41.5% | #25/39 | 2023 |
⚠️ Risk & resilience
| Climate Seen as a Threat | 82.5% | #92/142 | 2023 |
| Confident Can Protect Family | 31.6% | #108/142 | 2023 |
| Disaster Exposure (WRI) | 0.2 | #154/193 | 2026 |
| Experienced a Disaster | 53.3% | #14/142 | 2023 |
| Experienced Discrimination (Skin Colour) | 13.4% | #26/139 | 2023 |
| INFORM Risk Index | 6.5 | #20/191 | 2025 |
| Resilience to Risk (WRP) | 44.2 | #120/141 | 2023 |
| World Risk Index | 3.6 | #114/193 | 2026 |
| Worry About Violent Crime | 67.6% | #74/142 | 2023 |
😊 Wellbeing
| Happiness (Cantril Ladder) | 4.5 | #118/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Freedom | 0.9 | #70/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: GDP | 1 | #134/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Generosity | 0.1 | #41/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Healthy Life Expectancy | 0.4 | #109/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Low Corruption | 0 | #131/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Social Support | 1.2 | #90/147 | 2025 |
| Human Development Index | 0.6 | #158/193 | 2023 |
| Went Without a Cash Income (Afrobarometer) | 93.2% | #8/39 | 2023 |
| Went Without Enough Food (Afrobarometer) | 62.3% | #19/39 | 2023 |
🧭 Attitudes & values
| Attended a Demonstration | 9.6% | #89/151 | 2017 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Effective | 80.9% | #86/143 | 2018 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Safe | 85.5% | #44/143 | 2018 |
| China’s Influence Seen as Positive (Afrobarometer) | 62% | #26/39 | 2023 |
| Country Going in the Right Direction (Afrobarometer) | 49.2% | #10/39 | 2023 |
| Signed a Petition | 20.9% | #40/121 | 2017 |
| Trade Union Membership | 20.1% | #25/120 | 2017 |
| Trust in Fellow Citizens (Afrobarometer) | 60.7% | #18/39 | 2023 |
| Trust in government | 6.6 | #9/123 | 2017 |
| Trust in parliament | 5.8 | #18/151 | 2017 |
| Trust in political parties | 4.5 | #29/120 | 2017 |
| Trust in Science | 68.8% | #95/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in Scientists | 66.1% | #69/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in the legal system | 5.7 | #41/153 | 2017 |
| US Influence Seen as Positive (Afrobarometer) | 67.7% | #17/39 | 2023 |
Latest available period per indicator. The rank counts down from the highest value, whatever that means for the series: on child mortality or extreme poverty the country at #1 is the worst in the world, not the best. Sources are credited on each indicator page.