Country Report Uganda March 2011

Data and charts: Quarterly data

 2009   2010   
 1 Qtr2 Qtr3 Qtr4 Qtr1 Qtr2 Qtr3 Qtr4 Qtr
Prices        
Consumer prices (2000=100)137.8142.2147.0150.0149.1149.0149.6152.4
Consumer prices (% change, year on year)16.412.712.912.18.24.81.71.6
Financial indicators        
Exchange rate USh:US$ (av)1,9972,1872,0481,8902,0062,1722,2472,286
Exchange rate USh:US$ (end-period)2,1182,0641,9241,9002,0842,2832,2442,308
Bank rate (end-period; %)12.710.611.99.77.88.49.112.0
Deposit rate (av; %)10.39.79.89.28.57.56.48.3
Lending rate (av; %)20.221.821.120.720.320.919.620.0
Treasury-bill rate (av; %)9.36.06.96.04.24.14.66.4
M1 (end-period; USh bn)2,8702,9783,0253,2553,3613,7893,8494,396
M1 (% change, year on year)19.619.117.112.617.127.227.235.1
M2 (end-period; USh bn)5,9816,2986,3016,7457,2698,2938,6419,407
M2 (% change, year on year)24.925.026.116.621.531.737.139.5
Sectoral trends (US$ m)        
Coffee exports87.063.065.067.074.0n/an/an/a
Fish exports36.039.038.037.035.0n/an/an/a
Foreign trade (US$ m)        
Exports fob818726662782630635n/an/a
Imports fob-968-908-932-980-1,010-1,109n/an/a
Trade balance-149-183-269-198-380-474n/an/a
Foreign payments (US$ m)        
Merchandise trade balance-149.3-182.9-269.3-198.1-380.1-473.9n/an/a
Services balance-118.1-96.0-102.0-140.0-229.5-244.6n/an/a
Income balance-66.5-83.7-99.1-79.2-89.2-82.3n/an/a
Net transfer payments331.8266.5253.8281.1286.6209.9n/an/a
Current-account balance-2.1-96.1-216.6-136.2-412.2-590.9n/an/a
Reserves excl gold (end-period)2,4222,4423,0122,9952,8912,7112,8932,960
Sources: IMF, International Financial Statistics; Uganda Bureau of Statistics.

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