{"id":"transport-extra","title":"Rail, air cargo and transport licences","description":"Railway and ferry freight, Entebbe air cargo and public transport licences issued.","licence":"Figures are official statistics published by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) and its partner agencies. Cite UBOS as the source; the links in each dataset point to the original files.","sources":[{"title":"Number of Licensed Public vehicles 2013 to 2023","url":"https://www.ubos.org/wp-content/uploads/statistics/Number_of_Licensed_Public_vehicles_2013_to_2023.xlsx"},{"title":"Railway Statistics from 2019 to 2023","url":"https://www.ubos.org/wp-content/uploads/statistics/Railway-Statistics-from-2019-to-2023.xlsx"},{"title":"Volume of Cargo through Entebbe International Airport, tonnes 2019 – 2023","url":"https://www.ubos.org/wp-content/uploads/statistics/Volume-of-Cargo-through-Entebbe-International-Airport-tonnes-2019-%E2%80%93-2023.xlsx"}],"data":{"sources":{"licences":{"title":"Number of Licensed Public vehicles 2013 to 2023","url":"https://www.ubos.org/wp-content/uploads/statistics/Number_of_Licensed_Public_vehicles_2013_to_2023.xlsx","updated":"2024-01-11"},"railway":{"title":"Railway Statistics from 2019 to 2023","url":"https://www.ubos.org/wp-content/uploads/statistics/Railway-Statistics-from-2019-to-2023.xlsx","updated":"2025-10-14"},"air_cargo":{"title":"Volume of Cargo through Entebbe International Airport, tonnes 2019 – 2023","url":"https://www.ubos.org/wp-content/uploads/statistics/Volume-of-Cargo-through-Entebbe-International-Airport-tonnes-2019-%E2%80%93-2023.xlsx","updated":"2025-10-14"}},"licences":{"years":["2013","2014","2015","2016","2017","2018","2019","2020","2021","2022"],"rows":{"Tourist":[107,34,38,125,197,501,589,217,1198,971],"Public Service Vehicles Operators license":[15572,17634,15316,11119,17325,18528,16049,17021,12126,11144],"Rental/Town Taxi":[964,948,774,523,1021,731,547,115,109,179],"Boda boda":[1569,1069,2483,7938,5032,9016,12530,8347,11782,5582],"Owners transport Vehicle License":[1074,951,989,726,740,755,643,287,473,660],"Inland Water Transport Vessels":[196,79,129,73,114,242,127,708,595,857],"Country tax":[203,719,732,213,366,320,491,234,167,81],"Driving Instructors License":[95,3,124,110,79,173,191,99,255,314],"Driving school License":[45,null,51,40,32,70,71,37,107,131],"Certificate of fitness":[127,3,24,177,50,283,262,168,350,435]}},"railway":{"years":["2019","2020","2021","2022","2023"],"tonnes":[193693,196935,181880,298430,264181],"ton_km_000":[41767,41138,51829,77531,64198],"port_bell":[63949,32237,57624,128433,77217],"jinja_pier":[null,26063,38358,13859,7335],"accidents":[20,27,33,68,27]},"air_cargo":{"years":["2019","2020","2021","2022","2023"],"offloaded":[22642,22226,25594,20099,18161],"loaded":[42089,24246,39076,40968,40911],"total":[64731,46472,64670,61067,59072]},"notes":["Licences are those issued each year by the Transport Licensing Board; many boda bodas and taxis operate without one, so these are not counts of vehicles on the road. UBOS’s title says 2013–2023, but the table ends in 2022.","Railway figures are for Uganda Railways Corporation. From 2021 several of its performance measures (wagon transit times, productivity) jump about tenfold at once, which looks like a change of units, so only freight tonnage, lake ferry cargo and accidents are shown.","Air cargo is freight through Entebbe International Airport: “loaded” leaves Uganda, “off-loaded” arrives."]}}