sunflower seed,
vegetables, flowers, tobacco, cotton, sugarcane, cassava (tapioca);
cattle, goats, pigs, poultry, milk, eggs, hides; coffee

Exports: $876 million (f.o.b., 2001 est.)

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

Exports - partners: UK 25.2%, South Africa 24.5%, Switzerland 9.4%,
Malawi 7.5% (2000)

Imports: $12.05 billion (f.o.b., 2001 est.)

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

Imports - partners: South Africa 67.1%, UK 9.8%, Zimbabwe 7.5%, US 5.9%
(2000)

Debt - external: $5.8 billion (2001)

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

Currency: Zambian kwacha (ZMK)

Currency code: ZMK

Exchange rates: Zambian kwacha per US dollar - 3,848.65 (January 2002),
3,610.94 (2001), 3,110.84 (2000), 2,388.02 (1999), 1,862.07 (1998),
1,314.50 (1997)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Communications Zambia

Telephones - main lines in use: 130,000 (including more than 40,000
fixed telephones in wireless local loop connections) (1997)

Telephones - mobile cellular: 75,000 (2001)

Telephone system: general assessment: facilities are aging but still
among the best in Sub-Saharan Africa domestic: high-capacity microwave
radio relay connects most larger towns and cities; several cellular
telephone services in operation; Internet service is widely available;
very small aperture terminal (VSAT) networks are operated by private
firms international: Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations: AM 19, FM 5, shortwave 4 (2001)

Radios: 1.2 million (2001)

Television broadcast stations: 9 (2002)

Televisions: 277,000 (1997)

Internet country code: .zm

Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 5 (2001)

Internet users: 15,000 (2000)

Transportation Zambia

Railways: total: 2,157 km narrow gauge: 2,157 km 1.067-m gauge (13 km
double-track) note: the total includes 891 km of the Tanzania-Zambia
Railway Authority (TAZARA), which operates 1,860 km of 1.067-m narrow
gauge track between Dar es Salaam and Kapiri Mposhi where it connects to
the Zambia Railways system; TAZARA is not a part of the Zambia Railways
system; Zambia Railways assets are scheduled for concessioning (2002)

Highways: total: 66,781 km paved: NA km unpaved: NA km (1997 est.)

Waterways: 2,250 km note: includes Lake Tanganyika and the Zambezi and
Luapula rivers

Pipelines: crude oil 1,72