Trade Profiles
2021 Trade in commercial services
Transport
Travel Other commercial services
Industrial property
Merchandise trade Agricultural products Nonagricultural products
Uganda
Uganda
GDP (million current US$, 2020) GDP per capita (US$, 2018-2020) Current account balance (% GDP, 2020) Trade per capita (US$, 2017-2019) Trade (% GDP, 2017-2019)
37 613 913 -9.1 177 20.0
Rank in world trade, 2020 Merchandise excluding intra-EU trade Commercial services excluding intra-EU trade
Exports
115 91 115 89
Imports
101 76 91 66
MERCHANDISE TRADE Value
Million US$ Merchandise exports, f.o.b. Merchandise imports, c.i.f. Share in world total exports (%)
Annual percentage change
2020 4 149 8 251
2010-2020 10 6
2019 13 12
2020 0.02
Share in world total imports (%)
2020 19 10 2020 0.05
Breakdown in economy's total exports
Breakdown in economy's total imports
By main commodity group, % (2019)
By main commodity group, % (2019)
Agricultural products: 60
Fuels and mining products: 6.3
Agricultural products: 13.4
Fuels and mining products: 2.8
Manufactures: 18.1
Other: 15.6
Manufactures: 82.8
Other: 1
By main destination, % (2020)
By main origin, % (2020)
United Arab Emirates: 44.5 Kenya: 11.2 Dem. Rep. of the Congo: 6.4
European Union: 11.8 South Sudan: 8.6 Other: 17.5
China: 16.4
India: 11.6
Kenya: 9.4
Tanzania: 9
European Union: 8.6
Other: 45
Agricultural Products Value
Top exported products (Million US$) HS0901 HS1801 HS0902 HS1701 HS1005
2020 . 516 99 79 72 66
Coffee Cocoa beans, whole or broken Tea Cane or beet sugar Maize (corn)
Value
Top imported products (Million US$) HS1511 HS1001 HS1006 HS1701 HS2309
2020
Palm oil and its fractions Wheat and meslin Rice Cane or beet sugar Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding
272 152 106 68 52
Share in economy's trade in agricultural products Exports 0%
Imports
20%
40%
0%
HS0901
HS1511
HS1801
HS1001
HS0902
HS1006
HS1701
HS1701
HS1005
HS2309
10%
20%
30%
Million US$ Exports Imports
Value
2020 1 558 963
Annual percentage change
2010-2020 6 5
2019 na na
2020 na na
Non-Agricultural Products Value
Top exported products (Million US$) HS7108 HS2710 HS0304 HS2523 HS0305
2020
Gold Petroleum oils, other than crude Fish fillets and other fish meat Portland cement, aluminous cement Fish, dried, salted or in brine
1 818 77 74 69 48
Value
Top imported products (Million US$) HS7108 HS2710 HS3004 HS8703 HS8704
2020
Gold Petroleum oils, other than crude Medicaments in measured doses Motor cars for transport of persons Motor vehicles for goods transport
1 842 933 295 179 140
Share in economy's trade in non-agricultural products Exports 0%
374
20%
40%
Imports 60%
80%
0%
HS7108
HS7108
HS2710
HS2710
HS0304
HS3004
HS2523
HS8703
HS0305
HS8704
10%
20%
30%
Million US$ Exports Imports
Value
2020 2 591 7 287
Annual percentage change
2010-2020 13 6
2019 na na
2020 na na
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Uganda TRADE IN COMMERCIAL SERVICES Value
Million US$ Commercial services exports Commercial services imports
Annual percentage change
2020
2010-2020
882 3 004 2020 0.02
Share in world total exports (%) Breakdown in economy's total exports
2019
2020
9 5
-50 13
-2 5
2020 0.07
Share in world total imports (%) Breakdown in economy's total imports
By main services item, % (2020)
By main services item, % (2020)
Transport: 19 Other commercial services: 36
Travel: 45 Goods-related services: 0
Transport: 48.3 Other commercial services: 49.6
By main destination
Travel: 2 Goods-related services: 0
By main origin
Value
FATS sales Inward (million US$) Outward (million US$)
Annual percentage change
2020 na na
2010-2020 na na
2019 na na
2020 na na
Transport Uganda
600 500 400 300 200 100 0
2010
2013
World
2016
Value
Million US$ Exports Imports
2020 168 1 451
Exports By sea (2019) By air (2019) By other (2019)
2020
Transport exports (Index 2010=100)
Value
2010-2020 15 3
Share (%)
0 62 119
Annual percentage change 2019 -2 9
Imports By sea (2019) By air (2019) By other (2019)
0.0 33.2 63.7
2020 -10 -6
Value
Share (%)
268 440 832
17.3 28.5 53.9
Travel Uganda
200
World
Value
Million US$ Exports Imports
100 0
2010
2013
2016
2020 397 61
2010-2020 -7 -15
Annual percentage change 2019 12 5
2020 -67 -69
2020
Travel exports (Index 2010=100)
Other Commercial Services and Goods-related Services Million US$
Exports of OCS by main item (2020)
47.6
11.3 23.5
2020
2010-2020
Other commercial services Exports 317 Imports 1 491
Other business services Construction
17.5
Value
Financial services Other
2019
2020
5 -1
-16 63
2010-2020
2019
2020
-100 8
na -53
na -19
4 14
2020
Goods-related services Exports (2019) Imports
Annual percentage change
0 0
INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY Patent applications, 2018 Residents
6
Non-residents
na
Trademark applications, 2018 Total
6
World Trade Organization – Trade Profiles 2021
Residents
na
Non-residents
na
Industrial design applications, 2018 Total
1 506
Residents
29
Non-residents
na
Total
29
375