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IndicatorZMBZambiaSub-Saharan Africa
Governance
Civil liberties index (V-Dem)0-10.77rank #65
Control of Corruption0-100 percentile38.6rank #125
Deliberative democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.41rank #65
Egalitarian democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.27rank #89
Freedom of expression index (V-Dem)0-10.78rank #57
Government Effectiveness0-100 percentile41rank #139
Human rights index (V-Dem)0-10.77rank #65
Military spending% GDP1.3%rank #88
Participatory democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.35rank #68
Political Stability & Absence of Violence0-100 percentile64.2rank #113
Regulatory Quality0-100 percentile48.2rank #127
Rule of Law0-100 percentile47.3rank #136
Rule of law index (V-Dem)0-10.65rank #67
V-Dem electoral democracy0-10.5rank #75
V-Dem liberal democracy0-10.38rank #78
Voice & Accountability0-100 percentile49.7rank #123
Women in parliament% seats15%rank #135
Women's political empowerment index (V-Dem)0-10.79rank #64
Economy
Agricultural employment% employment54.5%rank #17
Agriculture value added% GDP4.1%rank #96
Annual working hours per workerhours2,199.6rank #27
Capital stock per worker2017 US$ per worker54,370.7rank #129
Current account balance% GDP-4.4%rank #120
Employment-to-population ratio%58.3%rank #85
External debt stocks% GNI114.2%rank #105
FDI net inflows% GDP9.3%rank #24
GDPcurrent US$28.88Brank #115
GDP growth%3.8%rank #78
GDP per capita (nominal)current US$1,317.9rank #165
GDP per capita, PPP2021 intl $3,742.3rank #160
GNI per capita (PPP)2021 intl $3,446.7rank #165
Government expenditure% GDP25.1%rank #72
Gross capital formation% GDP23.8%rank #73
Gross savings% GDP32.2%rank #25
High-technology exports% manuf. exports1.5%rank #110
Human capital indexindex2.7rank #85
Industry value added% GDP35.3%rank #27
Inflation%13.9%rank #154
Labour force participation rate%62%rank #89
Personal remittances received% GDP1.3%rank #95
R&D expenditure% GDP0.28%rank #64
Researchers in R&Dper million41.9rank #72
Tax revenue% GDP18.8%rank #40
Total factor productivity (current PPPs, USA=1)index (USA=1)0.26rank #113
Trade openness% GDP62.5%rank #115
Unemployment% labor force5.9%rank #107
Unemployment rate (ILO modelled)%5.9%rank #109
Vulnerable employment% employment70.2%rank #157
Youth unemployment% ages 15-2410.5%rank #77
Youth unemployment rate (ILO modelled)% ages 15-2411.2%rank #79
Health
Basic drinking water access% pop73.4%rank #146
Basic sanitation access% pop37.5%rank #157
Child mortalityper 1004.8rank #126
Daily caloric supply per capitakcal2,169.8rank #168
DTP3 immunization coverage%91%rank #9
Health spending% GDP6%rank #104
Infant mortalityper 1k births34.6rank #118
Life expectancyyears66.5rank #181
Maternal mortalityper 100k85rank #54
Measles immunization% children88%rank #12
Measles (MCV1) immunization coverage%88%rank #12
Physiciansper 1k0.32rank #87
PM2.5 air pollution exposureug/m320.2rank #120
Road traffic deathsper 100k20.5rank #83
Smoking prevalence% adults14.3%rank #44
Suicide mortality rateper 100k7.1rank #86
Tuberculosis incidenceper 100k272rank #130
Under-5 mortality rateper 1k births48.4rank #165
Undernourishment% pop37.2%rank #78
Education
Adult literacy%71.8%rank #27
Education spending% GDP4.1%rank #51
Expected years of schoolingyears11rank #157
Mean years of schoolingyears7.4rank #134
Primary completion rate% relevant age81.8%rank #110
Primary enrollment% gross115.6%rank #11
Secondary enrollment% gross56.8%rank #100
Tertiary enrollment% gross4%rank #136
Demography
Crude birth rateper 1,00032.7rank #19
Fertility ratebirths/woman4rank #25
Median age of populationyears17.5rank #203
Net migration rateper 1,0000.46rank #83
Populationpeople21.91Mrank #61
Population growth%2.8%rank #19
Projected life expectancy in 2050 (medium)years70.5rank #183
Projected population in 2050 (medium)thousands38,083.4rank #53
Total age dependency ratioper 100 working-age78.1rank #24
Urban population%45.9%rank #148
Climate
CO₂ emissionst12.04Mrank #105
CO₂ per capitat0.57rank #170
Electricity access% pop53.6%rank #63
Electricity from coal% generation10.8%rank #31
Electricity from hydro% generation86.2%rank #10
Electricity from solar% generation0.86%rank #129
Electricity from wind% generation0%rank #104
Electric power consumptionkWh per capita726.7rank #117
Forest area% land59.5%rank #28
GHG emissions per capitatCO2e per capita4.2rank #86
Power-sector CO2 intensitygCO2/kWh125.8rank #29
Renewable electricity%87.5%rank #17
Renewable energy share%83%rank #11
Total GHG emissions incl. LULUCFMtCO2e87.1rank #127
Society
Asylum seekerspeople546rank #59
Extreme poverty% pop71.7%rank #43
Female labor participation%56.4%rank #73
Fixed broadband subscriptionsper 1000.79rank #132
Gender Development Indexratio0.95rank #64
Gender Inequality Index0-10.52rank #125
Gini indexindex51.5rank #55
Homicide rateper 100k5.2rank #88
Human Development Index0-10.6rank #122
Inequality-adjusted HDI0-10.36rank #120
Internet users% pop17.1%rank #174
Life satisfaction0-104.1rank #130
Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI0-10.59rank #88
Poverty gap at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0.27rank #184
Poverty headcount at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0.57rank #148
Poverty headcount at $3.65/dayproportion (0-1)0.76rank #176
Poverty headcount at $6.85/dayproportion (0-1)0.9rank #194
Refugees hosted (by country of asylum)people83,225rank #55
Refugees originating (by country of origin)people346rank #53
Youth NEET rate%29.2%rank #149
Risk
Deaths in armed conflictsdeaths0rank #1
Hazard & exposure0-103.8rank #32
Human hazard & exposure0-104.5rank #37
INFORM risk score0-105.5rank #44
Lack of coping capacity0-106.5rank #55
Lack of infrastructure coping capacity0-106.1rank #52
Lack of institutional coping capacity0-106.9rank #48
Natural hazard & exposure0-103.1rank #18
Organized-violence deaths (total)deaths/year7rank #7
Socio-economic vulnerability0-106.3rank #60
Vulnerability0-106.7rank #55
Vulnerable groups0-107rank #62
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