Zambia
65 figures for Zambia, each the latest the source has. Pick one to see how Zambia compares.
Economy
- GDP per person $1,318 (2025)
- GDP per person, price-adjusted $4,379 (2025)
- Economic growth +3.8% (2025)
- Unemployment 5.9% (2025)
- Inflation +15.0% (2024)
- Exports 35.0% (2024)
- Income per person $3,446 (2023)
- Household wealth 36.4 (2019)
- Poorer households 71.4% (2019)
- Wealth inequality 0.38 (2019)
- Women in paid work 43.4% (2019)
People
- Population 20.7 million (2023)
- Population growth +2.77% (2025)
- Births per woman 4.04 (2024)
- Typical age 17.5 (2023)
- Living in cities 45.9% (2025)
- Human Development Index 0.595 (2023)
- Women’s vs men’s development 0.949 (2023)
- People per household 6.5 (2019)
- People over 65 3.1% (2019)
- Children under 15 47.0% (2019)
- Women’s age at first marriage 18.9 (2019)
- Mothers’ age at first birth 19.0 (2019)
Health
- Life expectancy 66.3 (2023)
- Child deaths (under 5) 48.4 (2024)
- Mothers dying in childbirth 85 (2023)
- Health spending per person $80 (2023)
- Measles vaccination 88% (2024)
- Overweight adults 29.9% (2022)
- Stunted children 33.3% (2019)
- Overweight children 6.4% (2019)
- Homes with piped water 19.6% (2019)
- Homes with a flush toilet 9.8% (2019)
Education
- Years of schooling 7.4 (2023)
- Expected years in school 11.0 (2023)
- Secondary school enrollment 20.3% (1994)
- Education spending 3.7% (2022)
- Teens in school 71.3% (2019)
Environment
- CO₂ per person 0.565 (2024)
- Total CO₂ emissions 12 million (2024)
- Forest cover 59.5% (2023)
- Air pollution (PM2.5) 25.4 (2024)
- Renewable energy share 83.0% (2021)
- Average temperature 22.0 (2022)
Energy
- Energy use per person 804 (2023)
- Access to electricity 53.6% (2024)
- Renewable electricity 87.5% (2024)
- Nuclear electricity 0.0% (2024)
- Coal electricity 10.8% (2024)
- Cooking with wood or dung 88.5% (2017)
Technology
- Internet users 17.1% (2024)
- Mobile phone subscriptions 98.4 (2022)
- Home broadband 0.4 (2022)
- Homes with internet 7.7% (2019)
- Homes with a mobile phone 75.5% (2019)
Food and farming
- Hunger 37.2% (2023)
- Cereal yield 2,344 (2023)
- Farmland 32.1% (2023)
- Jobs in farming 54.5% (2025)
Government
- Electoral democracy 0.50 (2025)
- Human rights 0.77 (2025)
- Control of corruption −0.46 (2025)
- Women in parliament 15.0% (2025)
- Military spending 1.3% (2024)
- Clean government 61.3 (2022)