ce
8%, Italy (1997)

Imports: $1.4 billion (c.i.f., 1998)

Imports--commodities: transportation equipment, petroleum, medical
supplies, iron and steel (1996)

Imports--partners: Kenya 31%, UK 12%, Japan 6%, India 6%, South
Africa 5% (1997)

Debt--external: $2.9 billion (1998 est.)

Economic aid--recipient: $827.3 million (1993)

Currency: 1 Ugandan shilling (USh) = 100 cents

Exchange rates: Ugandan shillings (USh) per US$1--1,368.4
(December 1998), 1,240.2 (1998), 1,083.0 (1997), 1,046.1 (1996),
968.9 (1995), 979.4 (1994)

Fiscal year: 1 July--30 June

Communications

Telephones: 61,600 (1990 est.)

Telephone system: fair system but in serious need of expansion
and better maintenance; a cellular system has been introduced as a
stopgap but the communications problems will not be solved without
substantial investment in the conventional telephone infrastructure;
e-mail and Internet services are available
domestic: intercity traffic by wire, microwave radio relay, and
radiotelephone communications stations, cellular system for short
range traffic
international: satellite earth station--1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations: AM 10, FM 0, shortwave 0

Radios: 2.13 million (1993 est.)

Television broadcast stations: 8 (in addition, there is one
low-power repeater) (1997)

Televisions: 220,000 (1993 est.)

Transportation

Railways:
total: 1,241 km
narrow gauge: 1,241 km 1.000-m gauge
note: a program to rehabilitate the railroad is underway (1995)

Highways:
total: 27,000 km
paved: 1,800 km
unpaved: 25,200 km (of which about 4,800 km are all-weather roads)
(1990 est.)

Waterways: Lake Victoria, Lake Albert, Lake Kyoga, Lake George,
Lake Edward, Victoria Nile, Albert Nile

Ports and harbors: Entebbe, Jinja, Port Bell

Merchant marine:
total: 3 roll-on/roll-off cargo ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling
5,091 GRT/8,229 DWT (1998 est.)

Airports: 27 (1998 est.)

Airports--with paved runways:
total: 4
over 3,047 m: 3
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 (1998 est.)

Airports--with unpaved runways:
total: 23
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 6
914 to 1,523 m: 9
under 914 m: 7 (1998 est.)

Military

Military branches: Army, Navy, Air Wing

Military manpower--availability:
males age 15-49: 4,812,363 (1999 est.)

Military manpower--fit for military service:
males age 15-49: 2,611,096 (1999 e