enous languages

_#_Literacy: 73% (male 81%, female 65%) age 15 and over can
read and write (1990 est.)

_#_Labor force: 2,455,000; 85% agriculture; 6% mining, manufacturing,
and construction; 9% transport and services

_#_Organized labor: about 238,000 wage earners are unionized

_*_Government
_#_Long-form name: Republic of Zambia

_#_Type: multiparty system; on 17 December 1990, President Kenneth
KAUNDA signed into law the constitutional amendment that officially
reintroduced the multiparty system in Zambia and ending 17 years of
one-party rule

_#_Capital: Lusaka

_#_Administrative divisions: 9 provinces; Central, Copperbelt,
Eastern, Luapula, Lusaka, Northern, North-Western, Southern, Western

_#_Independence: 24 October 1964 (from UK; formerly Northern Rhodesia)

_#_Constitution: 25 August 1973

_#_Legal system: based on English common law and customary law;
judicial review of legislative acts in an ad hoc constitutional council;
has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction

_#_National holiday: Independence Day, 24 October (1964)

_#_Executive branch: president, prime minister, Cabinet

_#_Legislative branch: unicameral National Assembly

_#_Judicial branch: Supreme Court

_#_Leaders:

Chief of State--President Dr. Kenneth David KAUNDA (since 24
October 1964);

Head of Government--Prime Minister Gen. Malimba MASHEKE (since
15 March 1989)

_#_Political parties and leaders:
United National Independence Party (UNIP), Kenneth KAUNDA;
Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD), Frederick CHILUBA;
National Democratic Alliance (NADA), leader NA;
Democratic Party, leader NA; note--the first Extraordinary
Congress of UNIP began on 6 August 1991

_#_Suffrage: universal at age 18

_#_Elections:

President--last held 26 October 1988
(next to be held mid-1991);
results--President Kenneth KAUNDA was reelected without opposition;

National Assembly--last held 26 October 1988
(next to be held mid-1991);
results--UNIP was the only party;
seats--(136 total, 125 elected) UNIP 125

_#_Communists: no Communist party

_#_Member of: ACP, AfDB, C, CCC, ECA, FAO, FLS, G-19, G-77, GATT,
IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, IDA, IFAD, IFC, ILO, IMF, INTELSAT, INTERPOL, IOC, ITU,
LORCS, NAM, OAU, SADCC, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNIIMOG, UPU,
WCL, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO

_#_Diplomatic representation: Ambassador Paul J. F. LUSAKA; Chancery
at 2419 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington DC 2