Indicators of economy in Zambia

The essential economic performance of a country is reflected by the gross domestic product. So the total of all goods and services sold. Worldwide gross domestic product in 2020 was at about 10.915 US Dollar per capita. In contrast, the GDP in Zambia reached 985 US dollars per inhabitant, or 18.11 bn US Dollar in the whole country. Zambia is one of the smaller economies and is currently ranked 116. If this is calculated per inhabitant taking into account the purchasing power parity, then Zambia is in the list of the world's richest countries in place 162.

Inflation in Zambia was in 2020 at around 15.73%. Within the EU, the average in the same year was 2.62%. In the United States, it was most recently 4.70%.

Compared with the USA, prices for daily consumer goods are around 72.8% lower.
The Corruption Perceptions Index for the public sector counts 33 and is compared to other countries bad.


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