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Uganda

  • President:Yoweri Museveni
  • Prime Minister:Robinah Nabbanja
  • Capital city:Kampala
  • Languages:English (official national language, taught in grade schools, used in courts of law and by most newspapers and some radio broadcasts), Ganda or Luganda (most widely used of the Niger-Congo languages, preferred for native language publications in the capital and may be taught in school), other Niger-Congo languages, Nilo-Saharan languages, Swahili, Arabic
  • Government
  • National statistics office
  • Population, persons:50,698,092 (2025)
  • Area, sq km:200,520
  • GDP per capita, US$:1,002 (2023)
  • GDP, billion current US$:48.8 (2023)
  • GINI index:42.7 (2019)
  • Ease of Doing Business rank:116

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    • Global Democracy Ranking
      February 2025
      Source: Global Democracy Ranking
      Uploaded by: Knoema
      Accessed On: 04 March, 2025
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      The average global index score stagnated in 2022. Despite expectations of a rebound after the lifting of pandemic-related restrictions, the score was almost unchanged, at 5.29 (on a 0-10 scale), compared with 5.28 in 2021. The positive effect of the restoration of individual freedoms was cancelled out by negative developments globally. The scores of more than half of the countries measured by the index either stagnated or declined. Western Europe was a positive outlier, being the only region whose score returned to pre-pandemic levels.