- size: 752,618 sq km - slightly larger than Texas
- population: 11.8 million
- median age: 17 yrs (cp. 36.7 yrs)
- 35% of population is urban
- health statistics
- infant mortality:
- age structure: 45% 0-14 yrs, 53% 15-64 yrs, 2% 65 yrs and older
- birth rate: 40 births/1000 population
- infant mortality rate: 101.2 deaths/1000 live births (cp. US 6.22)
- total fertility rate: 5.15 children born/woman (cp. US 2.05)
- HIV/AIDS adult prevalence rate: 15.2% = 1.1 million people living with HIV/AIDS]
- life expectancy at birth: 38.63 yrs
- major infectious diseases: bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A, typhoid fever, malaria and plague in some locations, schistosomiasis, rabies
- religions
- Christian 50-75%
- Muslim and Hindu 24-49%
- indigenous beliefs 1%
- languages
- Bemba 30.1%
- Nyanja 10.7%
- Tonga 10.6% (the language of southern Zambia where I am)
- Lozi 5.7%
- etc.
- education
- literacy - 80.6% (87% male, 75% female)
- school life expectancy: 10 yrs
- politics
- 9 provinces
- capital: Lusaka
- independence: October 24, 1964
I'm somewhere about halfway between Lusaka and Livingstone, two hours from Choma.
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