Unganda GNI per Capita
According to Unicef, the gross national income per capita in Uganda was $280 in 2005. We went looking for these statistics after we were told that an internet connection would cost us $70 a month. It’s clear now, that that number is plainly ridiculous since it’s exactly 3 times the average GNI per capita of the local population.
In the US the GNI per capita is $43,740. My internet connection is about $40/month, which for comparison sake is approximately .011 times the GNI per capita in the US. That would make our quoted internet connection about 270 times too expensive to be proportional. This is the equivalent of my internet connection in the US costing $10,800/month. Ridiculous!Here is a link to some more great Uganda (and other country) stats:http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/uganda_statistics.html