Zambia August 5, 2019 Africa , African Union , AIDS , British colony , British Commonwealth , colony , COMESA , Commonwealth , english , English language , Kavango–Zambezi , Kavango–Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area , Lake Tanganyika , landlocked country , Lusaka , Northern Rhodesia , Rhodésie , SADC , safari , Southern Africa , Southern African Development Community , Tanganyika , Victoria Falls , Zambezi , Zambezi River , Zambia Official name Republic of Zambia Name in local language Republic of Zambia (en) Continent Africa Subcontinent Southern Africa Population (ranking: 69e ) 16,887,720 inhabitants (2018) Population growth 2.94 % / year Area 770,243 km² Density 21.93 inhabitants / km² GDP (ranking: 109e )26.720 billions $USD (2018) GDP/capita (ranking ) 1,540 $USD (2018) GDP growth 3.80 % / year (2018) Life expectancy (ranking ) 54.60 years (2017) Birth rate 41.60 ‰ (2017) Fertility rate 5.50 children / woman (2017) Death rate (ranking ) 12.60 ‰ (2017) Infant mortality rate (ranking ) 72.40 ‰ (2017) Literacy rate 88.71 % (2010) Official languages English Currency Zambian kwacha (ZMK) HDI (ranking: 183e )0.588 / 1 (2017) EPI (ranking )50.97 (2018) Government Unitary Presidential republic Head of State President Edgar Lungu National Day 24 October (independence of 1964) ISO Codes ZM, ZMB Demonym Zambian Tourists (ranking ) 956,000 people (2016)
A population that suffers Zambia is a southern African country, landlocked. Surrounded by Angola to the west, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Mozambique to the east, and Zimbabwe , Botswana and Namibia to the south, Zambia is a crescent-shaped country, a kind of border between Central, Southern and Eastern Africa.
Zambia – Women in a village Zambia – Lake Bangwelo. Source: Wildlife Archives Zambia – Giraffe. Source: Wildlife Archives Urban areas (2015) Urban areas Population Lusaka 3,100,467 inhabitants Kitwe 1,213,920 inhabitants Ndola 774,757 inhabitants Kabwe 214,355 inhabitants Livingstone 174,408 inhabitants
Administrative divisions Provinces Population Area Centrale 1,599,884 inhabitants 94,395 km² Copperbelt 2,480,657 inhabitants 31,328 km² Luapula 1,185,446 inhabitants 50,567 km² Lusaka 3,002,530 inhabitants 21,896 km² Méridionale 1,963,206 inhabitants 85,283 km² Muchinga 971,547 inhabitants 87,806 km² Nord-Occidentale 879,229 inhabitants 125,826 km² Occidentale 1,024,505 inhabitants 126,386 km² Orientale 1,910,782 inhabitants 69,106 km² Septentrionale 1,387,443 inhabitants 77,650 km²
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