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Accident","values":[22778,16621,14005,52977,22585,23909,33859]}]}},"notes":["Exchange rates are Bank of Uganda annual averages of the inter-bank mid-rate. The 2014–2019 rates come from a UBOS file titled “Volumes of Inter-bank and Bureaux Foreign Exchange Transactions”.","Interest rates are for June of each year; UBOS has not published a newer table.","Bank figures are for June of each year. Where the older and newer UBOS tables overlap (2019), the newer one is used.","UBOS’s “Ratio of diaspora remittances to GDP” table covers only capital transfers (about US$176 million in 2022/23), not all the money Ugandans abroad send home, so it is not shown.","Insurance figures are premium income reported by the Insurance Regulatory Authority, 2012–2018."]}}