Zambia
General information
Capital: Lusaka
Currency unit: New Zambian kwacha
Official language: English
Area: 743,390 km²
Population in million: 17,351,800.0
GDP per capita (current US dollars): 1,540
GDP per capita, PPP (current international $): 4,224
Demography
Labor force participation rate (% of total population ages 15+): 75.2
Annual growth rate of the population: 2.9 %
Mortality rate, infant (per 1,000 live births): 40.4 %
Life expectancy at birth: 63.0 ans
Youth literacy rate Literacy rate, youth total (% of people ages 15-24): 87 %
Production
Gross domestic product (GDP) in billions of US dollars: 26,720,100,000.00
Agriculture value added of GDP: 2.6
Industry value added of GDP: 36.3
Services value added of GDP: 6.8
Trade
Total exports in billions of US dollars: 9,707,160.00
Total imports in billions of US dollars: 8,495,400.00
Major manufactured products (as % of total exports) :
Hydraulic cements (0.87 %)
Sulphuric acid (0.78 %)
Precious and semi-precious stones (0.44 %)
Bases for electric control or the distribution of electricity (0.39 %)
Cobalt oxides and hydroxides (0.39 %)
Weight of major primary products excluding minerals and oil (as % of total exports) :
Unmanufactured tobacco (2.28 %)
Cane or beet sugar (1.78 %)
Cotton, not carded or combed (1.14 %)
Maize (0.94 %)
Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by volume of less than 80 % vol.; spirits, liqueurs and other spirituous beverages. (0.33 %)