Zambia

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This page was generated on 20 September 2026 at 12:27 UTC. The bundled facts on it were retrieved between 13 July 2026 and 8 August 2026. Aletheia's source record for emergency numbers records no retrieval date, so it is not covered by that range.

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1. News sources

   1 source from Zambiain Aletheia’s registry. Coverage here is thin.

   • Lusaka Times

   sources not yet assessed

2. Official alerts

   no source connectedNo official alerting source is connected for this country yet. Its own authorities may well publish warnings — Aletheia simply does not carry them.

3. National legislature

   National Assembly ↗

   Wikidata P856 · link checked and reachable

4. Local time

   One time zone.

   The current time needs JavaScript, so it is not shown here rather than shown wrong.

5. Conditions at the capital

   We couldn't reach the weather service just now, so no conditions are shown. This is not a report that conditions are calm.

   Weather from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)

   Lusaka, 2026-09-20Sunrise 5:58 AM · sunset 6:02 PM12h 04m of daylightWaxing gibbous, 65% lit

6. At a glance

   ISO code

   ZMBuncited

   Driving side

   leftcited

   Mains voltage

   230 Vcited

   Capital

   Lusakauncited

   Official language

   Englishcited

   Plug types

   Type C (Europlug), Type G (BS 1363)cited · letters are the IEC classification

   Official website

   No source assessed yet

7. Population and economy

   Population

   21,913,874

   Projected

   Population of Zambia: the UN's 2025 estimate is 21,913,874 people. The page shows that figure carried forward at about 1.1 more a minute. It is a projection, not a count, and the figure shown changes as time passes.

   ↑about 1.1 more a minute

   Not a count. This is the UN's 2025 estimate carried forward at the rate implied by the two most recent published years — arithmetic, not a measurement. Nobody counts a country continuously, and the true figure right now is unknown.

   Where this number comes from

   Base figure

   21,913,874 people

   For the year

   2025 — a mid-year estimate, so it describes 1 July 2025

   Compared with

   21,314,956 people in 2024

   Rate applied

   about 1.1 more a minute (599,316 a year)

   How that rate was found

   The difference between the 2024 and 2025 estimates, divided by the time between them. It is our arithmetic on two published figures — the source does not publish this rate.

   Carried forward

   0 days beyond the base figure's date

   Source

   UN World Population Prospects and national statistical offices, compiled by the World Bank · source updated 2026-07-13

   The source's own definition

   The values shown are midyear estimates.

   THIS NUMBER IS NOT A MEASUREMENT, AND ITS MOVEMENT IS NOT NEWS. No country counts its population continuously. A census is periodic, and every figure between censuses — including the estimate this starts from — is a projection. What you are watching is that projection's trend applied to the clock on your phone. It moves because time passes, not because anyone was born or died. Treat the digits beyond the first few as arithmetic rather than knowledge: the trend is real, the precision is not.

   Population

   21,913,8742025

   GDP

   28,879,806,2202025

   GDP per capita

   1,3182025

   Life expectancy at birth

   66.5 years2024

   Exports

   35.0%2024

   Imports

   27.6%2024

   Compiled by the World Bank from: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wpp/, publisher: UN Population Division · source updated 2026-07-13 · each figure is dated because the most recent value was chosen by us, not by the source

8. In this country's own words

   One Zambia, One Nation

   Also recorded in Bulgarian, Catalan and Welsh.

   Founded

   1964

   National anthem

   Stand and Sing of Zambia, Proud and Free

   Everything in this section is quoted, with its source. Aletheia does not write about a country's history, culture or religion in its own words — where there is nothing to quote, there is no section.

9. World Heritage Sites

   1 World Heritage Site

   1. Mosi-oa-Tunya / Victoria Falls · shared with Zimbabwe

   Register from Wikidata (CC0) · in inscription order · links go to UNESCO

10. Emergency numbers

    • 112listed as: fire department
    • 112listed as: police
    • 911listed as: police
    • 991
    • 992listed as: emergency medical services
    • 993listed as: fire department
    • 999

    Shown in numerical order, which is not an order of priority.

    Listed by the source, mostly from ITU-T E.129. We have not dialled these numbers, and where a service is named it is the source's description rather than ours.

11. Explore this country

12. Regions

    • Central Province
    • Copperbelt
    • Eastern Province
    • Luapula Province
    • Lusaka Province
    • Muchinga
    • North-Western
    • Northern Province
    • Southern Province
    • Western Province

    First-level regions as GeoNames lists them, shown alphabetically · each page computes daylight at the region’s own coordinates

13. Currency

    ZMW

News coverage here is counted from Aletheia’s bundled source registry plus the sources the Host had admitted as of 2026-09-14. A source admitted since that date has not reached this page yet, so this is a floor rather than a total.

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