Zambia
Republic of Zambia
- Region
- Africa · Eastern Africa
- Capital
- Lusaka
- Population
- 21,913,874 (2025)
- Government
- presidential republic
- Currency
- Zambian kwacha (ZMW)
- Official languages
- English
- Spoken languages
- Bemba 33.4%, Nyanja 14.7%, Tonga 11.4%, Lozi 5.5%, Chewa 4.5%, Nsenga 2.9%, Tumbuka 2.5%, Lunda (North Western) 1.9%, Kaonde 1.8%, Lala 1.8%, Lamba 1.8%, English (official) 1.7%, Luvale 1.5%
- Written scripts
- Latin
- Area
- 752,612 km²
- Coastline
- Landlocked
- UN member
- Yes
- Affiliations
- African Union, COMESA, IMF, SADC, WCO, WTO
- Borders
- Angola , Botswana , DR Congo , Malawi , Mozambique , Namibia , Tanzania , Zimbabwe
Political stability
64 / 100
Economic stability
32 / 100
Population stability
50 / 100
0–100, higher is more stable. Political: World Bank governance score. Economic: government effectiveness, regulatory quality, and inflation proximity to 2% (World Bank). Population: stability of growth and net migration rates (World Bank).
Trade profile
- Key exports
- raw copper, refined copper, gold, precious stones, electricity (2023)
- Key imports
- refined petroleum, fertilizers, trucks, sulphur, tractors (2023)
- Natural resources
- copper, cobalt, zinc, lead, coal, emeralds, gold, silver, uranium, hydropower
- Primary route
- Indian Ocean gateways (Mombasa, Dar es Salaam, Djibouti) to Asia and the Gulf
- Secondary route
- Suez corridor to Europe
The xin.bz view
- Zambia holds a record 4.94M t maize harvest and Kariba at ~44% usable storage (vs ~21% a year ago) — food and water inventories that buy time as the Zambezi system enters a drier season.
- Copper is ~70% of export earnings, so hydropower inflows translate directly into mining power costs and global copper economics; grid diversification is the investment theme through 2027.
xin.bz coverage
El Niño Is Splitting Africa's Water Map — Just as the World Turns to the Continent for Food, Fertilizer, Fuel and Critical Minerals
A wetter Horn and a drier south, Southern Africa's grain and Kariba buffers, cocoa's port squeeze, Moroccan phosphate and Nigerian fuel as global substitutes, and the corridors that turn African resources into accessible supply.
Africa Is Building a Continental Trade System in Real Time: AfCFTA Moves From Treaty to Customs Gates, Payment Rails and Freight Corridors
AfCFTA's implementation era in 2026 — customs modernization, PAPSS payment expansion, the Abidjan-Lagos and Lobito corridors, and the regional manufacturing buildout reshaping intra-African trade.
Future Insight ·
The AI Factory Becomes an Industrial Commodity Complex — How Data Centers Reshape Cooling, Water, Power, Metals, and Global Trade Through 2050
Future Insights deep dive — how AI data centers reshape global demand for copper, transformers, cooling equipment, waste heat, and grid capacity through 2050, and what it means for global trade.
Trade research
- WTO trade profile — tariffs, trade in goods and services, top partners
- World Bank country data — GDP, trade share of GDP, logistics indicators
- OEC trade profile — export/import composition and partners, visualized
- ITC Trade Map — detailed trade statistics by product (ITC/UN Comtrade)
- CIA World Factbook — geography, economy, transportation infrastructure
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Sources: mledoze/countries (ODbL), CIA World Factbook (public domain), World Bank Open Data (CC BY-4.0), flag-icons (MIT). Stability scores are xin.bz composites of the cited World Bank indicators; routes and commodity notes are xin.bz assessments. Informational only — verify with official sources.