🇿🇲Zambia

Lusaka

Africa

Lower middle income

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Population

21.9M

2.8%as of 2025

Fertility Rate

4.04

births/woman

Life Expectancy

66.5y

GDP / capita

$1.3K

Pop. Growth

2.77%

Net Migration

6.6K

Population over time

Total population · observed (solid) and UN medium projection to 2100 (dashed)

Source: World Bank · UN World Population Prospects 2024

Fertility rate over time

Births per woman · dashed line = replacement (2.1)

Source: World Bank

Where immigrants come from

Largest foreign-born communities in Zambia by country of birth (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇨🇩Congo, Dem. Rep.67.2K(30.4%)

+221%

🇦🇴Angola41.7K(18.8%)

+12%

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Population projections to 2100

Official UN projections — Low / Medium / High variants

Source: UN World Population Prospects 2024

Population pyramid (2025)

Age & sex structure · share of total population by 5-year cohort

Male10.8MTotal 21.9M11.1MFemale

Source: birthrate.io model

GDP per capita over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Life expectancy over time

Years at birth

Source: World Bank

Society, housing & beliefs

Family, crime, housing and religion indicators

Homicide rate

5.2

per 100,000

Divorce rate

—

per 1,000

Births outside marriage

—

of births

Home ownership

—

of households

Homicide rate over time

Intentional homicides per 100,000 people

Source: World Bank / UNODC

GDP over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Net migration over time

Net migrants per year (immigrants − emigrants)

Source: World Bank

Foreign-born population over time

Immigrant / diaspora population living in the country

Source: World Bank / UN DESA

Foreign-born share over time

Foreign-born residents as % of the population

Source: World Bank / UN DESA

🇲🇼Malawi17.8K(8.1%)

+32%

🇨🇬Congo, Rep.13.9K(6.3%)

+64%

🇷🇼Rwanda12.2K(5.5%)

+64%

🇧🇮Burundi9.3K(4.2%)

+187%

🇹🇿Tanzania8.8K(4.0%)

+48%

🇮🇳India7.6K(3.4%)

+63%

🇿🇦South Africa5K(2.3%)

+63%

🇲🇿Mozambique2.1K(1.0%)

+63%

🇬🇧United Kingdom2.1K(0.9%)

+63%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024

Where the Zambia diaspora lives

Top destinations for people born in Zambia who now live abroad (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇿🇼Zimbabwe32.7K(26.6%)

+8%

🇲🇼Malawi30.6K(24.9%)

−29%

🇿🇦South Africa22.9K(18.7%)

−21%

🇹🇿Tanzania8.3K(6.8%)

−19%

🇦🇺Australia8.1K(6.6%)

+31%

🇲🇿Mozambique5.5K(4.5%)

+14%

🇧🇼Botswana4.7K(3.8%)

+23%

🇳🇦Namibia3.4K(2.7%)

+11%

🇨🇳China1.7K(1.4%)

+534%

🇮🇹Italy911(0.7%)

+20%

🇲🇱Mali761(0.6%)

+62%

🇩🇰Denmark726(0.6%)

+38%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024