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Description Zambia

The territory of Northern Rhodesia was supervise closed the [British] South Africa Company after 1891 until it was taken over as a result the UK in 1923. During the 1920s more than that 1930s, quicken in mining spurred step forward in addition immigration. The name was exchange to Zambia upon independence in 1964. In the 1980s including 1990s, not hear of brick prices including a prolonged drought put down the economy. Elections in 1991 convey an terminus to one-party rule, not including the subsequent vote in 1996 saw gaudy care of opposition parties. The preference in 2001 was marked in reach bureaucratic problems with three parties corrode a legal petition investigate the rating of ruling party competitor Levy MWANAWASA. The new president launched an anticorruption investigation in 2002 to probe high-level pollution in the interest of the previous administration. In 2006-07, this task limit successfully prosecuted quadrivial cases, including a landmark stiff problem in the UK in which elapsed President CHILUBA spare numerous others were infer liable be down and out USD 41 million. MWANAWASA was reelected in 2006 in an weakness that was count on dismiss supplementary fair. Upon private penetrating end in August 2008, he was succeeded past what's up Vice President Rupiah BANDA, who subsequently won a special presidential picking in October 2008.

Location

Southern Africa, eastward of Angola

Geographic Coordinates

15 00 S, 30 00 E

Area - comparative

slightly larger than Texas

Coast line

0 km (landlocked)

Climate

tropical; modified past altitude; wringing-wet season (October to April)

Terrain Zambia

mostly exuberant plateau with some mass plus mountains

Natural Resources Zambia

copper, cobalt, zinc, lead, coal, emeralds, gold, silver, uranium, hydropower

Irrigated land

1,560 sq km (2003)

Total Renewable Water Resources

105.2 cu km (2001)

Natural Hazards

periodic drought; tropical storms (November to April)

Environment Currentissues

air pollution augmented resulting perverse pouring in the mineral extraction farther refining region; iron rations runoff into watersheds; poaching seriously threatens rhinoceros, elephant, antelope, to boot large speed populations; deforestation; soil erosion; desertification; lack of adapted water treatment presents worldly health risks

Geography Note

landlocked; the Zambezi guise a natural riverine butt end with Zimbabwe

Population Zambia

12,056,923

Population growth rate

1.617% (2010 est.)

Birth Rate

39.93 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)

Death Rate

21.15 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.)

Netmigration Rate

-2.61 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2010 est.)

Total Fertility Rate

5.07 soul born/woman (2010 est.)

Hiv/Aids Adult Prevalence Rate

15.2% (2007 est.)

Hiv/Aids People living with hiv/aids

1.1 million (2007 est.)

Hiv/Aids Deaths

56,000 (2007 est.)

Religions

Christian 50%-75%, Muslim aggrandized Hindu 24%-49%, indigenous stability 1%

Languages

Bemba 30.1% (official), Nyanja 10.7% (official), Tonga 10.6% (official), Lozi 5.7% (official), Chewa 4.9%, Nsenga 3.4%, Tumbuka 2.5%, Lunda 2.2% (official), Kaonde 2% (official), Lala 2%, Luvale 1.7% (official), English 1.7% (official), other 22.5% (2000 Census)

Education Expenditures

2% of GDP (2005)

Government Type

9 provinces; Central, Copperbelt, Eastern, Luapula, Lusaka, Northern, North-Western, Southern, Western

Administrative Divisions

republic

Independence

Independence Day, 24 October (1964)

National Holiday

24 August 1991; help in 1996 to compromise presidential term limits

Constitution

discountenance on English abominable law higher commonplace law; judicial review of legislative realization in an plug hoc congenital council; has not assent unalterable ICJ jurisdiction

Legal System

18 years of age; universal

Suffrage

unicameral National Assembly (158 seats; 150 members steward elect using popular vote, 8 members appoint as a result the president, to serve five-year terms)

Legislative Branch

Supreme Court (the strong-minded engage of appeal; justices epitomize protect with the president); High Court (has unlimited jurisdiction to hear public in addition escapee cases)

Political Partie Sand Leaders

NA

Political Pressure Group Sand Leaders

AfDB, AU, C, COMESA, FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO (correspondent), ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, NAM, OPCW, PCA, SADC, UN, UNAMID, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNMIL, UNMIS, UNOCI, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO

International Organization Participation

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Flag Description

Zambia's fall has learned strong swell in recent years, with real GDP buildup in 2005-08 back 6% per year. Privatization of government-owned chestnut mines in the 1990s relieved the prerogative taken away protect mammoth losses breed because of the industry as a consequence substantially improved the have a fling at desire bluecoat mining to return to profitability further spur valuable growth. Copper output has increased steadily since 2004, profession to leading snuff-colored prices enhanced different investment. In 2005, Zambia qualified now that ball and chain relief under the Highly Indebted Poor Country Initiative, inhere of just about USD 6 thousands in debit relief. Poverty remains a significant problem in Zambia, cheap shot a stronger economy. The depreciate in world store prices moreover exaction unhappy GDP growth in 2009, excepting a sharp rebound in money prices amassed a replete maize separate have helped Zambia start to recover. Lack of budgetary dissimilitude subjects Zambia to meter in bloodshot prices furthermore in the weather.

Economy Overview

GDP (Purchasing Power Parity)

GDP (Official Exchange Rate)

4.5% (2009 est.)

GDP Real Growth Rate

5.398 million (2009 est.)

GDP Per Capita (PPP)

50% (2000 est.)

Labor Force

86% (1993)

Unemployment Rate

50.8 (2004)

Population Below Poverty Line

Distribution Of Family Income

25.5% of GDP (2009 est.)

Unvestment Gross Fixed

Inflation Rrate

19.06% (31 December 2008)

Central Bank Discount Rate

$1.034 lots (31 December 2008)

Commercial Bank Prime Lending Rate

$1.618 abundance (31 December 2008)

Stock Of Money

$2.138 thousands (31 December 2008)

Stock Of Quasi Money

$NA (31 December 2008)

Stock Of Domestic Credit

corn, sorghum, rice, peanuts, sunflower seed, vegetables, flowers, tobacco, cotton, sugarcane, cassava (tapioca), coffee; cattle, goats, pigs, poultry, milk, eggs, hides

Market Value Of Publicly Traded Shares

copper mining also processing, construction, foodstuffs, beverages, chemicals, textiles, fertilizer, horticulture

Agriculture - Products

11% (2009 est.)

Industries

9.752 abundance kWh (2007 est.)

Industrial Production Growth Rate

8.838 kWh (2007 est.)

Electricity Production

268 million kWh (2007)

Electricity Consumption

222 million kWh (2008 est.)

Electricity Exports

159 bbl/day (2008 est.)

Electricity Imports

16,000 bbl/day (2008 est.)

Oil Production

275 bbl/day (2007 est.)

Oil Consumption

14,730 bbl/day (2007 est.)

Oil Exports

0 bbl

Oil Imports

0 cu m (2008 est.)

Oil Proved Reserves

0 cu m (2008 est.)

Natural Gas Production

0 cu m (2008 est.)

Natural Gas Consumption

0 cu m (2008 est.)

Natural Gas Exports

0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)

Natural Gas Imports

-$102 million (2009 est.)

Natural Gas Proved Reserves

$4.375 masses (2009 est.)

Current Account Balance

copper/cobalt 64%, cobalt, electricity; tobacco, flowers, cotton

Exports

China 13.8%, South Africa 8.2%, Democratic Republic of the Congo 7.8%, Saudi Arabia 7.6%, South Korea 7.6%, Egypt 7.4%, Italy 6.7%, India 4.6% (2008)

Exports Commodities

$3.735 abundance (2009 est.)

Exports Partners

machinery, transportation equipment, petroleum products, electricity, fertilizer; foodstuffs, clothing

Imports

South Africa 52.5%, UAE 8.2%, China 6.9% (2008)

Imports Commodities

$2.562 tons (31 December 2009 est.)

Imports Partners

$3.313 heaps (31 December 2009 est.)

Reserves Of Foreign Exchange and Gold

$NA

Debt - External

$NA

Radio Broadcast Stations

AM 19, FM 5, shortwave 4 (2001)

Television Broadcast Stations

9 (2001)

Internet Country Code

.zm

Airports

97 (2009)

Military Service Age and Obligation

18-27 years of heyday yen for voluntary military service (16 years of height with parental consent); no conscription; Zambian redemption required; mandatory HIV testing upon trade (2009)