Zambia
Zambia in numbers
38 measures of Zambia from 1800 to 2025, each charted year by year with where it comes from. Where a source publishes projections, they run on to 2100, drawn apart from the estimates.
Every measure
Health
People
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spending1.26% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$343M in 2025
- Military spending per person$19 in 2025
- Military share of state spending4.5% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel16,000 people in 2020
- National power0.1% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.24% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports1 million TIV in 2024
- Arms exports2 million TIV in 1990
Climate
Technology and environment
Compare Zambia with…
- Zambia vs Nigeria
- Zambia vs Ethiopia
- Zambia vs Congo - Kinshasa
- Zambia vs Tanzania
- Zambia vs South Africa
- Zambia vs Kenya
- Zambia vs Sudan
- Zambia vs Uganda
- Zambia vs Angola
- Zambia vs Mozambique
- Zambia vs Ghana
- Zambia vs Madagascar
- Zambia vs Côte d’Ivoire
- Zambia vs Cameroon
- Zambia vs Niger
- Zambia vs Mali
- Zambia vs Burkina Faso
- Zambia vs Malawi
- Zambia vs Chad
- Zambia vs Somalia
- Zambia vs Senegal
- Zambia vs Zimbabwe
- Zambia vs Guinea
- Zambia vs Benin
- Zambia vs Rwanda
- Zambia vs Burundi
- Zambia vs South Sudan
- Zambia vs Namibia
Good to know
- Sources: UN, Gapminder and UN IGME, IHME, World Bank, IMF, UNESCO, Our World in Data, V-Dem, UCDP, SIPRI, IISS, Correlates of War, ERA5, CMIP6, EDGAR, ITU and FAO. Each measure’s page names its own and what it counts.
- Values are drawn on today’s borders. Years without a published value are left empty, never filled in.
- 2 measures are climate model output, marked as modelled: not measurements.
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