mployment rate: 22% (1991)

Budget:
revenues: $888 million
expenditures: $835 million, including capital expenditures of $110
million (1995 est.)

Industries: copper mining and processing, construction,
foodstuffs, beverages, chemicals, textiles, fertilizer

Industrial production growth rate: 3.5% (1996)

Electricity--production: 7.84 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--production by source:
fossil fuel: 0.51%
hydro: 99.49%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (1996)

Electricity--consumption: 6.393 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--exports: 1.47 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--imports: 23 million kWh (1996)

Agriculture--products: corn, sorghum, rice, peanuts, sunflower
seed, tobacco, cotton, sugarcane, cassava (tapioca); cattle, goats,
pigs, poultry, beef, pork, poultry meat, milk, eggs, hides

Exports: $905 million (f.o.b., 1998 est.)

Exports--commodities: copper, cobalt, zinc, lead, tobacco

Exports--partners: Japan, South Africa, US, Saudi Arabia, India,
Thailand, Malaysia (1997)

Imports: $1.1 billion (f.o.b., 1998 est.)

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

Imports--partners: South Africa 48%, Saudi Arabia, UK, Zimbabwe
(1997)

Debt--external: $7.1 billion (1997 est.)

Economic aid--recipient: $1.991 billion (1995)

Currency: 1 Zambian kwacha (ZK) = 100 ngwee

Exchange rates: Zambian kwacha (ZK) per US$1--1,428 (October
1998), 1,333.81 (1997), 1,203.71 (1996), 857.23 (1995), 669.37 (1994)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Communications

Telephones: 80,900 (1987 est.)

Telephone system: facilities are among the best in Sub-Saharan
Africa
domestic: high-capacity microwave radio relay connects most larger
towns and cities
international: satellite earth stations--2 Intelsat (1 Indian Ocean
and 1 Atlantic Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations: AM 11, FM 5, shortwave 0

Radios: 1,889,140

Television broadcast stations: 9 (1997)

Televisions: 215,000 (1995 est.)

Transportation

Railways:
total: 2,164 km (1995)
narrow gauge: 2,164 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 Zambia Railways

Highways:
total: