ulture: 15.3%
industry: 27.9%
services: 56.9% (2003)

Investment (gross fixed):
45.2% of GDP (2003)

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):
21.4% (2003 est.)

Labor force:
4.59 million (2003)

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

Unemployment rate:
50% (2000 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $896.7 million
expenditures: $1.142 billion, including capital expenditures of NA
(2003 est.)

Public debt:
133.6% of GDP (2003)

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:
4% (2003 est.)

Electricity - production:
7.751 billion kWh (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
5.458 billion kWh (2001)

Electricity - exports:
1.75 billion kWh (2001)

Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (2001)

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

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

Oil - exports:
NA (2001)

Oil - imports:
NA (2001)

Current account balance:
$-340 million (2003)

Exports:
$1.039 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.)

Exports - commodities:
copper 55%, cobalt, electricity, tobacco, flowers, cotton

Exports - partners:
UK 26.7%, South Africa 21.6%, Tanzania 13.9%, Switzerland 8.1%
(2003)

Imports:
$1.128 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.)

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

Imports - partners:
South Africa 48.3%, Zimbabwe 12.8%, UK 5.9%, UAE 4.3% (2003)

Reserves of foreign exchange & gold:
$247.7 million (2003)

Debt - external:
$5.281 billion (2003)

Economic aid - recipient:
$651 million (2000 est.)

Currency:
Zambian kwacha (ZMK)

Currency code:
ZMK

Exchange rates:
Zambian kwacha per US dollar - 4,733.77 (2003), 4,398.59 (2002),
3,610.93 (2001), 3,110.84 (2000), 2,388.02 (1999)

Fiscal year:
calendar year

Communications Zambia

Telephones - main lines in use:
88,400