WBJ Uganda 2025 Edition Out Now
World Business Journal, Uganda 2025 edition is an investment guide for executives, policymakers, and financiers seeking to understand one of Africa’s fastest-growing economies. Drawing on field reporting, sector data, and an exclusive interview with President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, the edition examines Uganda’s growth trajectory and the opportunities shaping its markets.
The publication covers Uganda’s main growth pillars: economy and investment, industrialisation, energy, finance, ICT, tourism, infrastructure, and housing. At the centre is the government’s Tenfold Growth Strategy, which sets out to expand GDP from roughly USD 50 billion in 2023 to USD 500 billion by 2040, according to planning documents from the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development.
Uganda’s investment climate is assessed through both leadership perspectives and recent performance data. Net foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows reached USD 2.99 billion in 2023, according to World Bank data. The Ugandan government has reported that by April 2024, cumulative FDI had climbed to USD 3.01 billion. These inflows mark Uganda as one of the stronger performers in East Africa.
From small enterprises to large companies, businesses across diverse industries are innovating, scaling up, and creating new opportunities. Industrial parks are becoming vibrant centers of employment, skills development, and regional trade, while entrepreneurs are reshaping markets and driving growth in ways that extend far beyond traditional sectors. Grassroots programmes such as the Parish Development Model are designed to shift millions of households from subsistence to commercial participation, widening the domestic market base.
For international investors, Uganda 2025 highlights where and why capital is flowing, how reforms are changing the operating environment, and the sectors likely to anchor Uganda’s economic transformation in the years ahead.
