netary policy will help cut
inflation, but Zambia still has a serious problem with fiscal
discipline.

GDP (purchasing power parity):
$9.409 billion (2004 est.)

GDP - real growth rate:
4.6% (2004 est.)

GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $900 (2004 est.)

GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 14.9%
industry: 28.9%
services: 56.1% (2004 est.)

Labor force:
4.63 million (2004 est.)

Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture 85%, industry 6%, services 9%

Unemployment rate:
50% (2000 est.)

Population below poverty line:
86% (1993)

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 1.1%
highest 10%: 41% (1998)

Distribution of family income - Gini index:
52.6 (1998)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
18.3% (2004 est.)

Investment (gross fixed):
41.4% of GDP (2004 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $1.129 billion
expenditures: $1.307 billion, including capital expenditures of NA
(2004 est.)

Public debt:
127.5% of GDP (2004 est.)

Agriculture - products:
corn, sorghum, rice, peanuts, sunflower seed, vegetables, flowers,
tobacco, cotton, sugarcane, cassava (tapioca); cattle, goats, pigs,
poultry, milk, eggs, hides; coffee

Industries:
copper mining and processing, construction, foodstuffs, beverages,
chemicals, textiles, fertilizer, horticulture

Industrial production growth rate:
6.9% (2004 est.)

Electricity - production:
8.167 billion kWh (2002)

Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 0.5%
hydro: 99.5%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
5.345 billion kWh (2002)

Electricity - exports:
2.25 billion kWh (2002)

Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (2002)

Oil - production:
0 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - consumption:
11,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - exports:
NA

Oil - imports:
NA

Current account balance:
$-181.4 million (2004 est.)

Exports:
$1.548 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)

Exports - commodities:
copper/cobalt 64%, cobalt, electricity, tobacco, flowers, cotton

Exports - partners:
South Africa 25.6%, UK 17%, Switzerland 16%, Tanzania 7.4%,
Democratic Republic of the Congo 7%, Zimbabwe 5.8% (2004)

Imports:
$1.519 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)

Imports - commodities:
machinery, transportation equipment, petroleum products,
electricity, fertilizer; foodstuffs, clothing

Imports - partners:
South Africa 46.2%, UK 14.2