_#_Religion: Roman Catholic 33%, Protestant 33%, Muslim 16%, rest indigenous beliefs

_#_Language: English (official); Luganda and Swahili widely used; other Bantu and Nilotic languages

_#_Literacy: 48% (male 62%, female 35%) age 15 and over can read and write (1990 est.)

_#_Labor force: 4,500,000 (est.); subsistence agriculture 94%, wage earners (est.) 6%; 50% of population of working age (1983)

_#_Organized labor: 125,000 union members

_*Government #_Long-form name: Republic of Uganda

_#_Type: republic

_#_Capital: Kampala

_#_Administrative divisions: 10 provinces; Busoga, Central, Eastern, Karamoja, Nile, North Buganda, Northern, South Buganda, Southern, Western

_#_Independence: 9 October 1962 (from UK)