Skip to content
NXS-GRX-ZMB · Eastern Africa

Zambie

Country risk profile on The Global Risks Index: hazard and threat exposure, vulnerability, macro-financial fragility, coping capacity and systemic coupling, with intervals, sources and corrections on every value.

Page GRX-ZMBÉdition Édition de référence 2026Clôture des preuves 2026-09-30ISO ZMB / ZMStatut UN member stateValeurs pas encore publiéMéthode v1.0.0-draft
FIG 1 · Zambia in Eastern Africa
Chargement de la carte
FidjiRépublique-Unie de TanzanieÉtats-Unis d'AmériquePapouasie-Nouvelle-GuinéeIndonésieArgentineChiliRépublique démocratique du CongoSomalieKenyaSoudanTchadRépublique dominicaineTimor-LesteAfrique du SudLesothoUruguayBrésilBolivie (État plurinational de)ColombieVenezuela (République bolivarienne du)GuyanaSurinameFranceZimbabweBotswanaNamibieSénégalMaliMauritanieBéninNigerNigériaCamerounTogoGhanaCôte d’IvoireGuinéeGuinée-BissauLibériaSierra LeoneBurkina FasoRépublique centrafricaineCongoGabonGuinée équatorialeZambieMalawiMozambiqueEswatiniAngolaBurundiIsraëlLibanMadagascarÉtat de PalestineGambieTunisieAlgérieJordanieÉmirats arabes unisQatarKoweïtIrakOmanCambodgeThaïlandeLao People’s Democratic RepublicMyanmarViet NamRépublique de CoréeIndeBangladeshBhoutanNépalPakistanAfghanistanTadjikistanTurkménistanIran (République islamique d')République arabe syrienneGrèceTürkiyeEspagneNouvelle-ZélandeAustralieSri LankaChineItaliePhilippinesMalaisieBrunéi DarussalamÉrythréeJaponParaguayYémenArabie saouditeChypreMarocÉgypteLibyeÉthiopieDjiboutiOugandaRwandaTrinité-et-TobagoSoudan du SudAntigua-et-BarbudaBahreïnBarbadeComoresCabo VerdeDominiqueGrenadeSaint-Kitts-et-NevisSainte-LucieMaldivesMalteMauricePalaosSingapourSao Tomé-et-PrincipeSeychellesSaint-Vincent-et-les Grenadines
Equal Earth · Natural Earth 1:110m · locatorValeurs une fois publiées
Select a neighbouring profile to open it. Boundaries are shown at 1:110m for location only and take no position on any boundary or status.
20
indices de domaine
443
country indicators
14
hazard domains
17
sub-regional peers
02Humanitarian data

Zambia in humanitarian data

Source observations from the Humanitarian Data Exchange, each with its reference date, provider and licence. They are not index values.

Population · 2020-12-31

17,426,623

people. UNFPA · Creative Commons Attribution International (CC BY).

Poverty headcount · 2018-12-31

47.9%

of people in multidimensional poverty. Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative · Public Domain / No restrictions (CC0).

Refugees from the country · 2025-12-31

892

refugees and asylum-seekers abroad, most in Israel, South Africa, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. UNHCR – The UN Refugee Agency · Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY-IGO).

Humanitarian funding · 2025-12-31

US$ 9 m

received against US$ 33 m required. OCHA Financial Tracking System (FTS) · Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY-IGO).

Rainfall

10 units

with rainfall against the long-term average, on the unit pages. WFP – World Food Programme · Creative Commons Attribution International (CC BY).

Food prices · 2026-01-14

205 markets

Maize meal (white, breakfast): 6 ZMW per 25 KG. WFP – World Food Programme · Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY-IGO).

03Domaines

The full profile of Zambia, area by area

Fourteen areas from macroeconomy to frontier technology, and the planned innovation index. Each card says whether its sources are cleared, shows the mix, and gives two actions: what the area needs, and a scenario you can run now on open data.

Comment lireAdmitted: usableUnder legal review: waitingProhibited: excludedNot in the register: not yet assessedAcross the 14 areas: 113 admitted · 63 under legal review · 23 prohibited · 170 not in the register
Partly admitted14 indicators · 2 composites

Macroeconomy and external position

Output, prices, external balance and reserves, monetary conditions and labour, with intervals and the change since the last edition.

GDP
US$ 28.9 billion 2025
GDP per person
US$ 1,318 2025
GDP growth
3.8% 2025
4 admitted · 4 under legal review · 1 not in the register
Partly admitted37 indicators · 7 composites

Fiscal position and public debt

Debt path fan charts, gross financing needs, debt service and fiscal stress, with the assumptions published.

Government revenue
23.4% 2024
Government expense
25.1% 2021
Central government debt
71.4% 2021
7 admitted · 13 under legal review · 8 not in the register
Partly admitted32 indicators · 7 composites

Financial system

Banking-system capital and liquidity, credit growth, asset prices and contagion on the dependency network.

Domestic credit from the financial sector
37.7% 2025
Non-performing loans
2.8% 2025
Bank capital to assets
12.6% 2025
9 admitted · 4 under legal review · 1 prohibited · 8 not in the register
Partly admitted18 indicators · 5 composites

Trade, economic structure and supply chains

Trade openness and concentration, commodity dependence and supply-chain exposure by sector.

Commerce
62.5% 2024
Exportations
35% 2024
Fuel exports
2.7% 2024
8 admitted · 6 under legal review · 5 not in the register
Partly admitted13 indicators · 5 composites

Eau

Water stress, drought, access and quality, coupled to food, energy and health in the water, energy, food, health and biodiversity nexus.

Stress hydrique
2.8% 2022
Renewable internal freshwater per person
3,980 m³ 2022
3 admitted · 2 under legal review · 2 prohibited · 4 not in the register
Partly admitted23 indicators · 6 composites

Énergie

Supply security, import dependence, grid reliability, transition exposure and access.

Access to electricity
53.6% 2024
Renewable energy
83% 2021
Energy imports, net
12.7% 2024
7 admitted · 5 under legal review · 1 prohibited · 18 not in the register
Partly admitted23 indicators · 6 composites

Food systems

Availability, access, prices and nutrition, and the drivers from water, energy, trade and conflict.

Undernourishment
41% 2024
Cereal yield
2,318 2024
Stunting, under 5
34.6% 2018
14 admitted · 4 under legal review · 2 not in the register
Partly admitted31 indicators · 6 composites

Sécurité sanitaire

Health-system capacity, outbreak preparedness, disease burden and the health effects of other systems.

Life expectancy
66.5 years 2024
Under-5 mortality
48.4 2024
Health spending
6% 2023
4 admitted · 2 under legal review · 15 prohibited · 8 not in the register
Partly admitted22 indicators · 6 composites

Environment and biodiversity

Ecosystem condition, biodiversity pressure, land and ocean change and nature dependence of the economy.

Forest area
60.5% 2024
Protected areas
41.3% 2025
PM2.5 air pollution
20.2 µg/m³ 2023
9 admitted · 5 under legal review · 1 prohibited · 22 not in the register
Partly admitted31 indicators · 8 composites

Climate: physical and transition

Chronic and acute physical risk under scenarios, and transition exposure of the economy and the public balance sheet.

CO₂ emissions per person
0.5 t CO₂e 2024
Greenhouse gas emissions
38.5 Mt CO₂e 2024
People below 5 m elevation
0% 2015
10 admitted · 7 under legal review · 24 not in the register
Partly admitted39 indicators · 10 composites

Conflict, governance and security

Violence and its spillovers, institutional quality, rule of law and state capacity.

Intentional homicides
5.2 2015
9 admitted · 4 under legal review · 1 prohibited · 14 not in the register
Partly admitted27 indicators · 10 composites

Frontier technology and innovation

Frontier technology risk and capacity side by side: AI, compute, semiconductors, quantum, space, biotech, cyber resilience and digital infrastructure, with the innovation index below.

High-technology exports
1.5% 2024
Internet users
17.1% 2024
Fixed broadband subscriptions
0.8 2024
9 admitted · 5 under legal review · 1 prohibited · 26 not in the register
Partly admitted18 indicators · 5 composites

Coping capacity and disaster finance

Preparedness, response and recovery capacity, risk financing and social protection.

Social protection coverage
0.9% 2015
9 admitted · 1 under legal review · 1 prohibited · 18 not in the register
Partly admitted46 indicators · 11 composites

Society, demography and mobility

Human development, inequality, ageing, urbanisation and displacement.

Population
21.9 million 2025
Urban population
45.9% 2025
Poverty at $3.00 a day
71.7% 2022
11 admitted · 1 under legal review · 12 not in the register
Prévus12 planned indicators

Innovation index

Research, patents, talent, compute, digital infrastructure and capital for Zambia, read beside frontier technology risk. Not in Indicator Standard yet; each indicator needs its source admitted.

04Quote

Zambia composite risk

Value, change since the previous edition, 90% interval and class probability; the history and the published indicators follow.

NXS-GRX-ZMB · CRI · Eastern Africa · 0–10 scale
Zambia composite risk
–
Values publish with the edition; the interval, class and change appear here.
Previous edition
–
Range since 2016
–
Coupled composite
–
Coupling score S
–
Pulse, latest week
–
Outlook, 12 months
–
Méthode
Indicator Standard 1.0 · NXS-GRX 2026
Draws
1,000
Zambia composite risk, by edition

No released values yet. The first edition draws the history here with its interval band and class bounds.

The line is the point value by edition; the band is the 90% interval; dashed lines are the class bounds at 2, 3.5, 5 and 6.5.

“Zambia: published indicators” is not connected: the Foundry connection it needs is switched off on this network.

05Profile

Four pillars, composite and coupled composite

The composite is shown only with its four pillars and twenty domain indices beside it; each value carries a 90% interval and a class with its probability.

InstrumentValeurVariationVariation en %Intervalle à 90 %Classe · probabilitéTendancePlage
NXS-GRX Risque compositeNXS-GRX-ZMB · CRI–––––
NXS-GRX Risque coupléNXS-GRX-ZMB · CPL–––––
Exposition aux aléas et aux menacesNXS-GRX-ZMB · HTE–––––
Vulnérabilité humaine et des systèmesNXS-GRX-ZMB · VUL–––––
Fragilité macrofinancière et structurelleNXS-GRX-ZMB · MSF–––––
Manque de capacité d’adaptation et de réactionNXS-GRX-ZMB · LCC–––––
Très faible0,0 à < 2,0
Faible2,0 à < 3,5
Moyen3,5 à < 5,0
Élevé5,0 à < 6,5
Très élevé6,5 à 10,0
07Couplage

How Zambia is coupled to the world

Not yet estimated. Coupling strengths through trade and inputs, finance and debt, energy, food trade, infrastructure and information are ◆ ESTIMATED per edition with their method and references; the coupled composite is reported beside the standalone one.
09Peers

Profiles in Eastern Africa

A peer group is a reading context, not a ranking; profiles are listed by name.

Explore Zambia

Indices, hazards, the map and the data behind every value.

Page GRX-ZMB · UNI NXS-GRX-AR-ZMB-000001