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About Zambia

   

 

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Infected adults: 1,000,000 or 21.5%
Infected children: 150,000
Estimated AIDS deaths, 2001: 120,000
Children under 14 orphaned by AIDS: 570,000

Source: UNAIDS, 2001 data

 

Population
9,770,199

Capital
Lusaka

Ethnic groups
African 98.7%, European 1.1%, other 0.2%

Languages
English (official), major vernaculars - Bemba, Kaonda, Lozi, Lunda, Luvale, Nyanja, Tonga, and about 70 other indigenous languages.

Literacy
(Age 15 and over)

Total population: 78.2%
Male: 85.6%
Female: 71.3%
(1995 est.)

History
Northern Rhodesia was administered by South Africa Company from 1891 until takeover by the UK in 1923. Name was changed to Zambia upon independence in 1964.

Government
Republic

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

Source: CIA, 2001 World Factbook

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