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Zambia
Key facts
- currency: New Zambian kwacha
- capital city: Lusaka
- region: Eastern Africa
- continent: Africa
- land area: 743,390 km²
- population: 20,569,737 people
- political leader: Edgar Lungu (President)
Classified as: place
Summary
Zambia is a country. The capital city is Lusaka, located in the Eastern Africa region of Africa. It has a land area of 743,390 km², a population of 20,569,737 people and uses the currency New Zambian kwacha. The President is Edgar Lungu.
Location on a map: [-15°0′S, 30°0′E]
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Environment
Zambia is one of the countries in Africa, countries in Eastern Africa and 194 countries in our database.
- Agricultural land: 238,390.00 km²
- Alternative and nuclear energy: 9.67 % of total energy use
- Carbon dioxide emissions (co2): 9.27 Mt of CO2 equivalent
- Access to electricity: 47.80 % of population
- Electricity production from coal sources: 0.00 % of total
- Electricity production from natural gas sources: 0.00 % of total
- Electricity production from hydroelectric sources: 96.99 % of total
- Electricity production from nuclear sources: 0.00 % of total
- Electricity production from oil sources: 3.01 % of total
- Electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric: 0.00 % of total
- Net energy imports: 8.29 % of energy use
- Fertility rate: 4.24 births per woman
- Forest area: 446,258 km²
- Fossil fuel energy consumption: 10.56 % of total
- Greenhouse gas emissions (co2, ch4, n2o, hfcs, pfcs, sf6): 30.30 Mt of CO2 equivalent
- Median age: 13.40
- Methane emissions: 13.34 Mt of CO2 equivalent
- Nitrous oxide emissions: 7.69 Mt of CO2 equivalent
- Female population: 10,420,876 people
- Male population: 10,148,862 people
- Renewable energy consumption: 83.00 % of total final energy consumption
- Rural land area: 740,140.22 km²
- Rural population: 11,038,749 people
- Urban land area: 2,079.14 km²
- Urban population: 9,530,988 people
- Urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters : 0.00 % of total population
Geographical distribution of cities in Zambia by population
Cities in Zambia
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Evolution of historical other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6 in Zambia
Relationship between other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6 and urban land area in Zambia
Relationship between other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6 and urban population in Zambia
Evolution of historical land area in Zambia
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Evolution of historical methane emissions in Zambia
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Relationship between methane emissions and other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6 in Zambia
Relationship between methane emissions and urban land area in Zambia
Relationship between methane emissions and urban population in Zambia
Evolution of historical nitrous oxide emissions in Zambia
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Evolution of historical population in Zambia
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Evolution of historical female population in Zambia
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Evolution of historical renewable energy consumption in Zambia
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Evolution of historical rural population in Zambia
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Evolution of historical urban land area in Zambia
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Evolution of historical urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters in Zambia
Relationship between population and date in Zambia
Relationship between carbon dioxide emissions and other greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, SF6) in Zambia
Evolution of historical agricultural land in Zambia
Relationship between agricultural land and methane emissions in Zambia
Relationship between agricultural land and nitrous oxide emissions in Zambia
Evolution of historical alternative and nuclear energy in Zambia
Evolution of historical carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) in Zambia
Relationship between carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) and GDP in Zambia
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Relationship between carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) and urban land area in Zambia
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Evolution of historical access to electricity in Zambia
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Distribution of sites in Zambia by inscription year
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Evolution of historical electricity production from coal sources in Zambia
Evolution of historical electricity production from natural gas sources in Zambia
Evolution of historical electricity production from hydroelectric sources in Zambia
Evolution of historical electricity production from nuclear sources in Zambia
Evolution of historical electricity production from oil sources in Zambia
Evolution of historical electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric, in Zambia
Evolution of historical net energy imports in Zambia
Geographical distribution of sites in Zambia by area
Sites in Zambia
Proportion of transboundary sites in Zambia
Geographical distribution of wildfires in Zambia by mean width
Wildfires in Zambia
Relationship between mean length and mean width of wildfires in Zambia
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Politics
- Armed forces personnel: 16,000 people
- Democracy score: 5.61
- Democracy type: Hybrid regime
- Individuals using the internet: 31.23 % of population
- Military expenditure: 1.19 % of GDP
- Net migration: -5,000 people
- Press freedom: 2.15
- Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments: 14.97 %
Evolution of historical armed forces personnel in Zambia
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Relationship between armed forces personnel and other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6 in Zambia
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Evolution of historical internally displaced persons, by conflict and violence in Zambia
Evolution of historical individuals using the Internet in Zambia
Evolution of historical military expenditure in Zambia
Evolution of historical net migration in Zambia
Evolution of the historical proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments in Zambia
Political parties in Zambia
Distribution of politicians from Zambia by birth year
Proportion of politicians per gender in Zambia
Politicians from Zambia
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Business
- Central government debt: 71.41 % of GDP
- Expense: 25.14 % of GDP
- Gdp: 28,162,630,953.93 current US$
- Inflation: 10.88 annual %
- Self-employed workers: 73.02 % of total employment
- Tax revenue: 16.78 % of GDP
- Unemployment: 5.91 % of total labor force
- Vulnerable employment: 69.24 % of total employment
Proportion of revenue types by company in Zambia
Distribution of companies founded in Zambia by year
Proportion of CEOs per gender in Zambia
Companies from Zambia
Proportion of employee types in companies from Zambia
Evolution of historical central government debt in Zambia
Evolution of historical expense in Zambia
Evolution of historical GDP in Zambia
Relationship between GDP and other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6 in Zambia
Evolution of historical inflation in Zambia
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Relationship between self-employment and vulnerable employment in Zambia
Evolution of historical tax revenue in Zambia
Evolution of historical unemployment in Zambia
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Exchanges in Zambia
Proportion of shops per country in Zambia
Shops in Zambia
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Health
- Birth rate: 34.13 per 1,000 people
- Death rate: 6.72 per 1,000 people
- Health expenditure per capita: 75.34 current US$
- Health expenditure: 6.62 % of GDP
- Incidence of hiv: 1.86 per 1,000 uninfected population
- Hospital beds: 2.00 per 1,000 people
- Life expectancy at birth: 62
- Suicide mortality rate: 7.30 per 100,000 population
Evolution of historical death rate in Zambia
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Evolution of historical health expenditure in Zambia
Evolution of historical incidence of HIV in Zambia
Evolution of historical hospital beds in Zambia
Evolution of historical life expectancy at birth in Zambia
Relationship between life expectancy and the proportion of self-employed workers in Zambia
Relationship between life expectancy and vulnerable employment in Zambia
Evolution of historical suicide mortality rate in Zambia
Diseases in Zambia
Distribution of diseases by first founded year in Zambia
Proportion of diseases in Zambia by mortality rate
Distribution of diseases in Zambia by start date
Evolution of historical cases in Zambia
Evolution of historical deaths in Zambia
Relationship between cases and deaths in Zambia
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Sports
Distribution of athletes from Zambia by birth year
Proportion of athletes per gender in Zambia
Athletes from Zambia
Proportion of competitions per city in Zambia
Competitions in Zambia
Proportion of competitions per country in Zambia
Distribution of competitions in Zambia by start date
Proportion of medals won by Zambia in the Olympics
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Culture
Artists from Zambia
Distribution of artists from Zambia by birth year
Proportion of artists per gender in Zambia
Geographical distribution of museums in Zambia by visitors
Museums in Zambia
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Research
Geographical distribution of universities in Zambia by total students
Distribution of universities in Zambia per foundation year
Universities in Zambia
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In literature
There are 234 books written about Zambia in the database
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