_#_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)