| Population: 11,261,795
with 47% under the age of 14.
Life expectancy at birth: 39 years
HIV/AIDS prevalence rate: 16.5%
(2003)
# people living with HIV/AIDS:
920,000 (2003)
HIV/AIDS deaths: 89,000 (2003)
Population below poverty line: 73%
(1998)
Unemployment rate: 50% (2000)
GDP: $9.4 billion (purchasing power
parity)
% of GDP spent on healthcare:
5.6%
Zambia’s economy
has been impacted by a decline in the purchasing power of its copper
resources and a decline in per capita income from US$752 in 1965 to
US$351 in 2002. (World Bank)
Zambia
ranks 163 out of 175 on the Human Development Index. (UNDP)
In 2002, 39.5
percent of central government expenditures were financed through
foreign grants and loans. (World Bank)
*Factoids were obtained form CIA
World Factbook (Zambia), World Bank, and UNDP.
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