{"id":"wellbeing","title":"National standard indicators","description":"UBOS’s scorecard for lower-middle-income status, multidimensional poverty, electricity access and more.","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":"The National Standard Indicators (NSI) Framework - Level 1 2023","url":"https://www.ubos.org/wp-content/uploads/statistics/NSI_Level_I_Upload.xlsx"},{"title":"The National Standard Indicators (NSI) Framework - Level 2 2023","url":"https://www.ubos.org/wp-content/uploads/statistics/NSI_Level_II.xlsx"}],"data":{"sources":{"level1":{"title":"The National Standard Indicators (NSI) Framework - Level 1 2023","url":"https://www.ubos.org/wp-content/uploads/statistics/NSI_Level_I_Upload.xlsx","updated":"2023-12-17"},"level2":{"title":"The National Standard Indicators (NSI) Framework - Level 2 2023","url":"https://www.ubos.org/wp-content/uploads/statistics/NSI_Level_II.xlsx","updated":"2023-12-17"}},"years":["2014/15","2015/16","2016/17","2017/18","2018/19","2019/20","2020/21","2021/22"],"indicators":[{"criterion":"income","name":"GDP per person","official":"1.1.1: GDP Per Capita (US$), Current Prices","unit":"US$","better":"higher","periodicity":"Annual","points":[["2014/15",926],["2015/16",808],["2016/17",824],["2017/18",855],["2018/19",889],["2019/20",916],["2020/21",957],["2021/22",1042]]},{"criterion":"income","name":"Economic growth","official":"1.1.2: GDP Growth Rate (%)","unit":"%","better":null,"periodicity":"Annual","points":[["2014/15",5.2],["2015/16",4.8],["2016/17",3.1],["2017/18",6.3],["2018/19",6.4],["2019/20",3],["2020/21",3.5],["2021/22",4.7]]},{"criterion":"income","name":"People below the national poverty line","official":"1.1.4: Proportion of Population below the National Poverty Line (%)","unit":"%","better":"lower","periodicity":"Every 3 years","points":[["2014/15",19.7],["2016/17",21.4],["2019/20",20.3]]},{"criterion":"income","name":"Income inequality (Gini, 0 = equal)","official":"1.1.5: Income distribution (GINI Coefficient)","unit":"","better":"lower","periodicity":"Every 3 years","points":[["2014/15",0.395],["2016/17",0.42],["2019/20",0.413]]},{"criterion":"income","name":"Agriculture’s share of GDP","official":"a) Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries","unit":"%","better":null,"periodicity":"Annual","points":[["2014/15",23.537813033378484],["2015/16",22.660322786842165],["2016/17",23.4588353825347],["2017/18",23.250293542298756],["2018/19",22.945508806961946],["2019/20",23.92903372048078],["2020/21",23.84180382720066],["2021/22",24.073110196324755]]},{"criterion":"income","name":"Manufacturing’s share of GDP","official":"b) Manufacturing","unit":"%","better":null,"periodicity":"Annual","points":[["2014/15",17.60854767672563],["2015/16",16.229747596678603],["2016/17",15.52299608772697],["2017/18",15.779355619010179],["2018/19",15.466307482317355],["2019/20",15.795256722383657],["2020/21",16.43374918711246],["2021/22",16.44492804788169]]},{"criterion":"assets","name":"Literacy, age 10+","official":"2.1.1: Literacy Rate (10 Yrs.+) - 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UBOS groups them into three tests: income, human assets (health and education) and economic vulnerability.","Many indicators come from surveys held every few years. UBOS repeats the last survey’s value in the years between; this page shows each value only for the year it first appears.","The scorecard ends in 2021/22. Newer figures for some indicators (GDP, population, poverty) are on the story pages.","“Poverty in all its forms” (multidimensional poverty) counts people lacking several basics such as schooling, health, housing and services, not just income.","UBOS’s Level 2 table has visible errors (some rates written as fractions, others as percentages), so only a few of its figures are used here."]}}