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Population (World Bank): 1,406,585,000 (2025)
Metal/Ore Exports (% of Total Merchandise Exports, World Bank): 1.5% (2024)
Petroleum Production (Million barrels per day, EIA): 5,322 Mb/d (2024)
Human Development Index (World Rank, UNDP): 78
2021 Resource Governance Index Score (NRGI): 55/100
EITI Status: None
Link to key economic information (Atlas of Economic Complexity)
Policy documents that include local content relevant provisions:
Local Content Relevant News:
April 2022 – Zambia and DRC Sign Cooperation Agreement to manufacture electric batteries
February 2022 – Zambian government to discuss Kalumbila MFEZ with FQM
August 2021 – Jubilee and Mopani Copper Mines enter MoU for refining facility
June 2021 – Vice President Inonge Wina Commits to Local Content
February 2021 – Mine Suppliers Want the Law through SI to Force Mining Firms to Give Big Contracts to Local Players
December 2020 – Cabinet Approves Review Of Legislation That Allows Appointment Of PSs Into Boards
May 2020 – Mine Suppliers Talk Local Content Strategy (Paywall)
July 2019 – Zambia Mulls Increasing Local Firms' Participation in Mining Sector
October 2018 – Zambia to Finally Get 35% Local Content Regulation
June 2018 – Mining Boom has not Benefited any Zambian, Says Musukwa
March 2018 – Zambia to Start Forcing Miners to Move 30% of Minerals by Rail
Analysis and Case Studies:
Edward Lange (2021) – Legal framework for local content and sub-contracting in the mining sector in Zambia
Peter Kragelund (2020) – Using Local Content Polcies to Engender Resource-Based Development in Zambia: A Chronicle of a Death Foretold? (Paywall)
Alexander Caramento (2020) – Cultivating Backward Linkages to Zambia’s Copper Mines: Debating the Design of, and Obstacles to, Local Content (Paywall)
Ross Harvey (2019) – Can Zambia’s Copper Become a Flywheel for Industrialisation?
Mulimbika and Karim (2018) – Zambia’s industrialisation agenda: A case for local content in the mining industry
Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development (2018) – Case Study of Zambia: Upstream Linkages
Östensson and Löf (2017) – Downstream Activities: The Possibilities and the Realities
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (2017) – Local Content Policies in Minerals-exporting Countries, Case Study
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (2015) – Local Content: Zambia - Mining
Alan Roe et al. (2014) – Enhancing Mining’s Contribution to the Zambian Economy and Society
Judith Fessehaie (2012) – What determines the breadth and depth of Zambia's backward linkages to copper mining? The role of public policy and value chain dynamics (Paywall)
Judith Fessehaie (2011) – Development and knowledge intensification in industries upstream of Zambia's copper mining sector
Relevant Initiatives:
IFC Copperbelt SME Suppliers Development Program (Completed, 2007-2010)