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President: Yoweri Kaguta Museveni
Prime Minister: Ruhakana Rugunda
Capital city: Kampala
Languages: English (official national language, taught in grade schools, used in courts of law and by most newspapers and some radio broadcasts), Ganda or Luganda (most widely used of the Niger-Congo languages, preferred for native language publications in the capital and may be taught in school), other Niger-Congo languages, Nilo-Saharan languages, Swahili, Arabic
Population, persons: 42,723,139 (2018)
Area, sq km: 200,520
GDP per capita, US$: 643 (2018)
GDP, billion current US$: 27.5 (2018)
GINI index: 42.8 (2016)
Ease of Doing Business rank: 116
