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Uganda in numbers — 19 World Bank indicators, each linking to its complete year-by-year history.

Capital: Kampala · Region: Sub-Saharan Africa · Income group: Low income

Uganda recorded GDP per capita: 1,206 (2025), ranking 189 of 212 worldwide; Population: 51.38 million (2025), ranking 31 of 217 worldwide; Life expectancy: 68.5 (2024), ranking 166 of 217 worldwide; Inflation: 3.58% (2025), ranking 76 of 187 worldwide. The year in brackets is the reference year for that figure.

Measured across each series' full span, GDP shows the largest increase (+14549%) and Infant mortality the largest decrease (-71%). Every indicator below links to its complete year-by-year series.

Across the measures below it sits below the world median on slightly more than half. Measured against the median of every economy covered here, 8 of 19 comparable series are higher and 11 are lower.

Its population of 51.38 million (2025) makes it a mid-sized population by the standards of this dataset.

18 of 19 series on this page carry a value for 2023 or later; the remaining 1 end earlier because the underlying collection is less frequent.

Indicators

IndicatorLatestYearChange
GDP61,985,829,288.152025+14548.8%
GDP per capita1,206.32025+2078.3%
GDP growth6.33%2025+10.2%
Population51,384,8942025+572.5%
Population growth2.7%2025-5.3%
Urban population31.94%2025+632.1%
Life expectancy68.492024+50.1%
Infant mortality35.92024-71.2%
CO2 per capita0.172024+81.8%
GDP (PPP)179,214,990,762.332025+1431.8%
GDP per capita (PPP)3,487.72025+423.8%
Labor participation80.03%2025+9.2%
Unemployment2.75%2025-20.4%
Inflation3.58%2025-64.3%
Electricity access55.3%2024+887.5%
Internet users8.95%2024
Forest area11.04%2023-38.3%
Health spending4.24%2023-16.7%
Education spending2.56%2022-19.0%
Source. World Bank Open Data (CC BY 4.0). Latest data revision: 2026-09-13. Country page on data.worldbank.org.