Uganda
Uganda in numbers
39 measures of Uganda from 1800 to 2025, each charted year by year with where it comes from. Where a source publishes projections, they run on to 2100, drawn apart from the estimates.
Every measure
Health
People
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spending1.96% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$1.2B in 2025
- Military spending per person$26 in 2025
- Military share of state spending9% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel46,000 people in 2020
- National power0.2% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.24% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports2 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports4 million TIV in 2016
Climate
Technology and environment
Compare Uganda with…
- Uganda vs Nigeria
- Uganda vs Ethiopia
- Uganda vs Congo - Kinshasa
- Uganda vs Tanzania
- Uganda vs South Africa
- Uganda vs Kenya
- Uganda vs Sudan
- Uganda vs Angola
- Uganda vs Mozambique
- Uganda vs Ghana
- Uganda vs Madagascar
- Uganda vs Côte d’Ivoire
- Uganda vs Cameroon
- Uganda vs Niger
- Uganda vs Mali
- Uganda vs Burkina Faso
- Uganda vs Malawi
- Uganda vs Zambia
- Uganda vs Chad
- Uganda vs Somalia
- Uganda vs Senegal
- Uganda vs Zimbabwe
- Uganda vs Guinea
- Uganda vs Benin
- Uganda vs Rwanda
- Uganda vs Burundi
- Uganda vs South Sudan
Good to know
- Sources: UN, Gapminder and UN IGME, WHO/UNICEF, IHME, World Bank, IMF, UNESCO, Our World in Data, V-Dem, UCDP, SIPRI, IISS, Correlates of War, ERA5, CMIP6, EDGAR, ITU and FAO. Each measure’s page names its own and what it counts.
- Values are drawn on today’s borders. Years without a published value are left empty, never filled in.
- 2 measures are climate model output, marked as modelled: not measurements.
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