_#_External debt: $1.9 billion (1990 est.)

_#_Industrial production: growth rate 15.0% (1989 est.); accounts for 5% of GDP

_#_Electricity: 173,000 kW capacity; 312 million kWh produced, 18 kWh per capita (1989)

_#_Industries: sugar, brewing, tobacco, cotton textiles, cement

_#_Agriculture: accounts for 57% of GDP and 83% of labor force; cash crops—coffee, tea, cotton, tobacco; food crops—cassava, potatoes, corn, millet, pulses; livestock products—beef, goat meat, milk, poultry; self-sufficient in food

_#_Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (1970-89), $145 million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-88), $1.2 billion; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $60 million; Communist countries (1970-89), $169 million

_#_Currency: Ugandan shilling (plural—shillings); 1 Ugandan shilling (USh) = 100 cents

_#_Exchange rates: Ugandan shillings (USh) per US$1—563.18 (January 1991), 428.85 (1990), 223.09 (1989), 106.14 (1988), 42.84 (1987), 14.00 (1986), 6.72 (1985)

_#_Fiscal year: 1 July-30 June

_*Communications #_Railroads: 1,300 km, 1.000-meter-gauge single track