Uganda's economy has been in decline since 2006, when the conflicts within the country started to overpower its economic stability. In the early 90s, Uganda's gross domestic product has been growing at a rate of 7%. However, in 2006 that growth slowed to about 5%, which most people attribute to the country struggling to handle other issues that are going on. It currently has an economic freedom score of 59.9, which is the 10th best in all of Africa. Though its economic freedom score is not especially low, it has gone down by 1.2 points in the last year and the country is known as the most corrupt country in all of East Africa. The corruption probably stems from the poverty of the country. Most people don't make enough money to meet their basic needs. The average income per person in Uganda is $300 per year, which is half of the Sub Saharan Africa average and $9,700 less than the world's average. This cannot even be attributed to an uneven distribution of wealth, because the GDP of the entire country is only $50.4 billion. To put that into perspective, the US has a GDP of $16.8 trillion, which is over 333 times larger than Uganda's GDP. The country's money is also not very well regulated and laws surrounding money are relatively weak, which makes embezzling extremely common.