Uganda economic indicators March 2025.xlsx

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2	Selected Indicators
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4		Jan-86	Feb-86	Mar-86	Apr-86	May-86	Jun-86	Jul-86	Aug-86	Sep-86	Oct-86	Nov-86	Dec-86	Jan-87	Feb-87	Mar-87	Apr-87	May-87	Jun-87	Jul-87	Aug-87	Sep-87	Oct-87	Nov-87	Dec-87	Jan-88	Feb-88	Mar-88	Apr-88	May-88	Jun-88	Jul-88	Aug-88	Sep-88	Oct-88	Nov-88	Dec-88	Jan-89	Feb-89	Mar-89	Apr-89	May-89	Jun-89	Jul-89	Aug-89	Sep-89	Oct-89	Nov-89	Dec-89	Jan-90	Feb-90	Mar-90	Apr-90	May-90	Jun-90	Jul-90	Aug-90	Sep-90	Oct-90	Nov-90	Dec-90	Jan-91	Feb-91	Mar-91	Apr-91	May-91	Jun-91	Jul-91	Aug-91	Sep-91	Oct-91	Nov-91	Dec-91	Jan-92	Feb-92	Mar-92	Apr-92	May-92	Jun-92	Jul-92	Aug-92	Sep-92	Oct-92	Nov-92	Dec-92	Jan-93	Feb-93	Mar-93	Apr-93	May-93	Jun-93	Jul-93	Aug-93	Sep-93	Oct-93	Nov-93	Dec-93	Jan-94	Feb-94
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7	Prices
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9	Consumer Price indices (CPI)
10	Headline: (Base: 2005/06 =100)
11	Core: (Base: 2005/06 = 100)
12	Headline: (Base: 2009/10 =100)
13	Core: (Base: 2009/10 = 100)
14	Headline: (Base: 2016/17 =100)
15	Core: (Base: 2016/17 = 100)
16	Inflation, (%)
17	Headline: (Base: 2005/06 =100)
18	Core: (Base: 2005/06 = 100)
19	Headline: (Base: 2009/10 =100)
20	Core: (Base: 2009/10 = 100)
21	Headline: (Base: 2016/17 =100)
22	Core: (Base: 2016/17 = 100)
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24	Exchange Rate (Sh/US$)
25	End of Period	14.0	14.0	14.0	14.0	14.0	14.0	14.0	14.0	14.0	14.0	14.0	14.0	14.0	14.0	14.0	14.0	60.0	60.0	60.0	60.0	60.0	60.0	60.0	60.0	60.0	60.0	60.0	60.0	60.0	60.0	150.0	150.0	150.0	150.0	150.0	165.0	165.0	165.0	200.0	200.0	200.0	200.0	200.0	200.0	200.0	340.0	370.0	370.0	375.0	379.0	379.0	379.0	384.0	440.0	440.0	450.0	480.0	480.0	510.0	540.0	570.0	600.0	620.0	640.0	670.0	700.0	800.0	800.0	850.0	915.0	915.0	915.0	970.0	1,000.0	1,160.1	1,158.9	1,168.6	1,169.5	1,184.4	1,185.1	1,186.9	1,182.4	1,210.4	1,217.2	1,218.3	1,215.5	1,220.6	1,219.2	1,203.2	1,199.3	1,198.5	1,191.5	1,172.1	1,171.2	1,161.1	1,130.2	1,044.5	1,092.7
26	Period Average	14.8	14.8	14.8	14.8	14.0	14.0	14.0	14.0	14.0	14.0	14.0	14.0	14.0	14.0	14.0	14.0	60.0	60.0	60.0	60.0	60.0	60.0	60.0	60.0	60.0	60.0	60.0	60.0	60.0	60.0	150.0	150.0	150.0	150.0	150.0	165.0	165.0	165.0	200.0	200.0	200.0	200.0	200.0	200.0	200.0	340.0	340.0	370.0	375.0	379.0	379.0	379.0	384.0	440.0	440.0	450.0	480.0	480.0	510.0	540.0	570.0	600.0	620.0	640.0	670.0	700.0	800.0	800.0	850.0	915.0	915.0	915.0	970.0	985.5	1,160.1	1,158.9	1,164.9	1,166.1	1,177.9	1,185.3	1,185.2	1,181.1	1,196.3	1,213.9	1,217.1	1,217.1	1,217.5	1,218.1	1,213.3	1,199.1	1,197.6	1,196.7	1,182.0	1,170.8	1,165.0	1,146.0	1,112.7	1,047.2
27	Annual appreciation/depreciation rate													-5.3	-5.4	-5.4	-5.4	328.6	328.6	328.6	328.6	328.6	328.6	328.6	328.6	328.6	328.6	328.6	328.6	0.0	0.0	150.0	150.0	150.0	150.0	150.0	175.0	175.0	175.0	233.3	233.3	233.3	233.3	33.3	33.3	33.3	126.7	126.7	124.2	127.3	129.7	89.5	89.5	92.0	120.0	120.0	125.0	140.0	41.2	50.0	45.9	52.0	58.3	63.6	68.9	74.5	59.1	81.8	77.8	77.1	90.6	79.4	69.4	70.2	64.2	87.1	81.1	73.9	66.6	47.2	48.2	39.4	29.1	30.7	32.7	25.5	23.5	5.0	5.1	4.1	2.8	1.7	1.0	-0.3	-0.9	-2.6	-5.6	-8.6	-14.0
28	Real Effective Exchange Rate 7/																																													27.0	31.6	44.3	47.4	44.9	45.8	45.2	45.4	47.4	48.5	56.4	56.2	57.5	58.0	61.6	63.5	63.4	66.0	64.3	63.2	65.7	66.1	68.9	74.5	79.2	79.0	83.0	81.3	80.9	77.2	74.1	75.4	73.4	75.0	75.4	77.0	76.8	73.2	72.0	74.2	75.0	77.0	76.0	74.8	71.9	71.3	68.6	70.2	69.0	66.9	65.4	63.7	60.2	57.4
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30	Interest Rates(% )
31	Central Bank Rate
32	Rediscount Rate																																																																																					40.00	30.00	25.00	25.00	25.00	25.00	25.00	25.00	23.00	23.00	23.00	23.00	23.00	23.00
33	Lending Rate	24.00	24.00	24.00	24.00	38.00	38.00	38.00	38.00	38.00	38.00	38.00	38.00	38.00	38.00	38.00	38.00	38.00	38.00	38.00	30.00	30.00	30.00	30.00	30.00	30.00	30.00	30.00	30.00	30.00	30.00	40.00	40.00	40.00	40.00	40.00	40.00	40.00	40.00	40.00	40.00	40.00	40.00	40.00	40.00	40.00	40.00	40.00	40.00	40.00	40.00	40.00	40.00	40.00	40.00	40.00	40.00	36.00	36.00	36.00	36.00	36.00	32.00	32.00	32.00	32.00	32.00	32.00	37.00	37.00	37.00	37.00	37.00	37.00	37.00	38.00	40.00	40.00	40.00	40.00	40.00	40.00				22.13	25.05	25.86	26.01	24.80	26.79	26.25	25.89	25.52	22.46	20.06	20.33	22.24	24.36
34	91-day Treasury Bill Yield																																																																																					19.13	22.05	22.86	23.01	21.80	23.79	23.25	22.89	22.80	19.46	17.05	17.77	19.24	21.45
35	364-day Treasury Bill Yield
36	Time deposit rate																																																																																				25.06	14.13	17.05	17.86	18.01	16.80	18.79	18.25	17.89	17.52	14.46	12.06	12.33	14.24	16.36
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38	Financial Sector
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40	Net Foreign Assets (NFA) (Shs billion)																																																																																										-226.6	-191.9	-191.9	-180.2	-185.9	-176.1	-153.7	-134.6	-125.5
41	Net Domestic Assets (NDA) (Shs billion)																																																																																										194.8	171.0	179.0	159.2	180.2	190.9	197.9	188.7	173.1
42	Domestic Credit (Shs billion)																																																																																										324.4	302.1	302.1	278.5	294.7	291.5	299.4	299.5	304.2
43	Net Credit to Government (NCG) (Shs billion)																																																																																										52.1	34.7	34.7	1.9	20.5	14.3	11.4	0.6	-6.1
44	Private sector credit (Shs billion) 6/																																																																																										248.7	244.2	244.2	254.9	252.4	254.5	265.1	275.8	287.1
45	Money Supply, M3 (Shs billion)																																																																																										338.0	336.7	350.6	340.8	351.2	368.4	391.2	388.2	393.4
46	Money Supply, M2 (Shs billion)																																																																																										301.8	300.5	306.0	308.8	322.6	330.2	354.0	354.6	357.4
47	Currency Outside Depository Corporations (Shs billion) 4/																																																																																										99.9	102.9	102.6	102.8	105.9	110.7	132.6	124.6	126.1
48	Private Demand Deposits (Shs billion)																																																																																										122.0	117.7	117.7	120.1	123.1	122.4	125.1	134.7	131.9
49	Private Time and Savings Deposits (Shs billion)																																																																																										80.0	80.0	85.8	85.9	93.7	97.0	96.2	95.3	99.4
50	Currency In Circulation (Shs billion) 5/																																																																																										108.9	111.9	111.9	111.4	112.9	119.1	143.2	135.2	136.8
51	Base Money (Shs billion)																																																																																										145.3	140.8	140.8	147.6	153.8	148.5	171.0	164.0	164.6
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53	External Sector
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55	Trade Balance (US$ millions)																																																																																											-32.5	-21.1	-15.5	-27.5	-30.4	-39.9	-28.8	-25.8
56	Total Exports of Goods - fob (US$ millions)																																																																																											12.4	15.8	21.8	12.9	14.6	15.7	20.6	27.4
57	Total Imports of Goods - fob (US$ millions)																																																																																											44.9	36.9	37.2	40.4	45.0	55.5	49.3	53.2
58	Terms of trade index (2005/06=100) 1/
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60	Real Sector
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62	Business Tendency Indicator
63	Composite Index of Economic Activity
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65	Memorandum items:
66	Gross foreign exchange reserves (US$ millions)	24.511248	25.8685568	38.6067104	56.3386848	55.8639122	68.9923361	72.0453999	74.3585954	90.0696716	66.2803146	48.860256	29.2056288	42.8619168	33.6499488	37.1	11.6	21.7	21.9255604	36.5	31.1	24.1	47.6	61.9	54.6	40.114889	54.7459872	45.0456713	53.9	34.9	34.5	40.2	27.5	56.4	42.5	48.1	49.3	52.5	5.1	13.8	39.784448	23.991883	29.730506	35.7934884	16.4747912	10.6767886	8.1	28.3	14.1	36.1445617	30.9450179	24.9546068	34.1010529	21	23.932388	19.3	19.3	37.484068	63.725509	53.6565848	43.9860882	33.284682	30.2545696	28.4308224	83.1931843	68.8671524	57.7602748	52.5721	44.2677012	34.60808	37.6068812	68.9393904	58.9134003	57.1747493	55.0431939	45.9331958	44.116392	81.9153728	73.1620346	77.5579008	74.4162392	65.2789648	67.330134	58.4792648	94.42	100.6651328	102.497105	107.6630765	123.4413395	128.7997089	112	121.152	130.44	146.58	131.757	132.187	150.61	180.8	195.2
67	Reserve cover in future months of imports excl. oil project-related imports
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69	Source: Bank of Uganda, UBOS
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72	Note:
73	1/ July 1995 to June 2001 has a base year of 1999/2000=100.
74	2/ Including Fund obligations; reflects cash debt service paid, excluding debt relief.
75	3/ Stock of government securities is reported at face value.
76	4/ Currency outside BOU less cash in vaults of other depository corporations.
77	5/ Currency outside BOU
78	6/ Private Sector Credit reports the loans only.
79	7/ Base period is 2017. The CPI was rebased to base year 2017
80	8/ March 2020 Composite Index of Economic Activity figure was affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, hence couldn't give a clear position of the economy.
81	9/ Future months of import cover have been revised to exclude oil project related imports which are financed through FDI