2 million (2001)

Television broadcast stations:

9 (2001)

Televisions:

277,000 (1997)

Internet country code:

.zm

Internet hosts:

7,610 (2008)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

5 (2001)

Internet users:

500,000 (2007)

Transportation
Zambia

Airports:

107 (2007)

Airports - with paved runways:

total: 9
over 3,047 m: 1
2,438 to 3,047 m: 2
1,524 to 2,437 m: 4
914 to 1,523 m: 2 (2007)

Airports - with unpaved runways:

total: 98
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 4
914 to 1,523 m: 64
under 914 m: 29 (2007)

Pipelines:

oil 771 km (2007)

Railways:

total: 2,157 km
narrow gauge: 2,157 km 1.067-m gauge
note: includes 891 km of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority
(TAZARA) (2006)

Roadways:

total: 91,440 km
paved: 20,117 km
unpaved: 71,323 km (2001)

Waterways:

2,250 km (includes Lake Tanganyika and the Zambezi and Luapula
rivers) (2005)

Ports and terminals:

Mpulungu

Military
Zambia

Military branches:

Zambian National Defense Force (ZNDF): Zambian Army, Zambian Air
Force, National Service (2008)

Military service age and obligation:

18 years of age for voluntary military service (16 years of age with
parental consent); no conscription (2008)

Manpower available for military service:

males age 16-49: 2,678,668
females age 16-49: 2,567,433 (2008 est.)

Manpower fit for military service:

males age 16-49: 1,329,343
females age 16-49: 1,218,114 (2008 est.)

Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:

male: 147,358
female: 146,771 (2008 est.)

Military expenditures:

1.8% of GDP (2005 est.)

Transnational Issues
Zambia

Disputes - international:

in 2004, Zimbabwe dropped objections to plans between Botswana and
Zambia to build a bridge over the Zambezi River, thereby de facto
recognizing a short, but not clearly delimited, Botswana-Zambia
boundary in the river; 42,250 Congolese refugees in Zambia are
offered voluntary repatriation in November 2006, most of whom are
expected to return in the next two years; Angolan refugees too have
been repatriating but 26,450 still remain with 90,000 others from
other neighboring states in 2006

Refugees and internally displaced persons:

refugees (country of origin): 42,565 (Angola); 60,874 (Democratic
Republic of the Congo); 4,100 (Rwanda) (2007)

Trafficking in persons:

current situation: Zambia is a source,