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Yoweri Museveni

Yoweri Museveni

🇺🇬Uganda

Rank #218
Score: 53
About Yoweri Museveni

Yoweri Kaguta Museveni (b.1944) has been President of Uganda since 1986. He led the National Resistance Army in the 1980s, brought relative political stability after years of conflict and delivered periods of economic growth, while later years have seen growing concerns about democratic backsliding, restrictions on political space, and constitutional changes that extended his tenure.

Scoring Breakdown
Detailed analysis of the politician's score.

HDI
Uganda HDI ≈ 0.525 (2021/2022 reporting)6/10
Source: UNDP — Human Development Report / Uganda country data (2022)
GDP per capita
Uganda GDP per capita (World Bank country profile) — context for scoring6/10
Source: World Bank — Uganda data (2023)
Gini coefficient
Gini index (Uganda) — survey proxies / World Bank series3/10
Source: World Bank — Gini index (Uganda) (2016)
Employment rate
Employment-to-population ratio / ILO estimates (Uganda country profile)3/5
Source: ILOSTAT — Uganda country profile (2021)
Freedom index
Freedom House — Uganda country report (restricted political space; \"Not Free\"/partly free concerns)1/10
Source: Freedom House — Uganda profile (2023)
Corruption index
Transparency International — Uganda CPI (2023) score ~26/100 (low)1/5
Source: Transparency International — Uganda / CPI page (2023)

Derived Criminal Score
Multiple allegations, restrictions on opponents, and documented human-rights concerns; no final impartial international convictions (scored as multiple notable cases, no convictions)12/20
Source: Reporting (Human Rights Watch, Reuters, Amnesty) and press accounts (2005)