Zambia in 3D
The economy as a map you can turn. Drag the timeline, or press play, and watch a decade of prices, trade and borrowing move across the country. Every figure on the stage is also in the table beside it.
The national picture
The headline indicators as of the month on the timeline, and how they push on each other. The links are the standard channels economists watch, described rather than estimated.
Inflation: what moves it, and what it moves
- USD → CPI A weaker kwacha makes every imported good dearer in kwacha terms.
- Oil → CPI All fuel is imported; pump prices feed straight into transport and food costs.
- Food CPI → CPI Food is the largest share of the CPI basket.
- CPI → Policy The Bank of Zambia raises its policy rate when inflation runs above its 6–8% target band.
- CPI → T-Bill 364d Investors demand a higher yield to hold kwacha debt when prices are rising faster.
About this data
Provincial and CPI-division inflation, trade by bloc and by mode, and the traditional/non-traditional export split come from the Zambia Statistics Agency’s monthly bulletin. Yields and exchange rates are from the Bank of Zambia, and copper and oil prices from the KSJ economic database. Gaps are left as gaps.
ZamStats publishes trade in kwacha. KSJ converts it to US dollars at the Bank of Zambia’s monthly average rate, which matches ZamStats’ own dollar figures to within about one percent where both exist.
Province boundaries: geoBoundaries (CC BY 4.0), from the Zambia Data Hub. Country outlines: Natural Earth.