ZambiaandZimbabwe

24 October 1964 · 18 April 1980

Two sourced records set beside each other — the figures each nation publishes, and the events each chronicle records of the other. Compared, never graded.

Zambia

24 October 1964 — Zambia becomes independent of Britain

Dossier →Chronicle →

Zimbabwe

18 April 1980 — Zimbabwe becomes independent of Britain

Dossier →Chronicle →

Shared indicators
41
Domains
9
Crossed events
1
Data through
2026-08-14

The figures, side by side

Each figure is the same observation, with the same source, as on the two dossiers. Every value shows the year it was observed — vintages differ by indicator and nation. A “—” is an absence in the source data, never a zero. Metric names link to the world ranking; values open the figure on its own dossier.

Economy

ZMBZWE
  • GDP
    $29 B2025$51 B2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • GDP per capita
    $1,3182025$3,0212025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • GDP growth
    3.8%20258.1%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Inflation
    13.9%2025104.7%2022
    Observed 2025 / 2022 · figures compared, never graded
  • Trade openness
    62.5%202441.5%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Society

ZMBZWE
  • Population
    22 m202517 m2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Life expectancy
    66.5 yrs202463.1 yrs2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Urban population
    45.9%202540.5%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Fertility rate
    4.020243.72024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Governance

ZMBZWE

Health

ZMBZWE
  • Health spending
    6.0%20232.9%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Physicians
    0.3220220.142023
    Observed 2022 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Under-5 mortality
    48.4202464.72024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Measles immunisation
    88.0%202490.0%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Safe drinking water
    —25.5%2024
    Observed — / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Education

ZMBZWE
  • Adult literacy
    71.8%202493.2%2019
    Observed 2024 / 2019 · figures compared, never graded
  • Education spending
    4.1%20230.4%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Primary enrolment
    115.6%202493.1%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Secondary enrolment
    56.8%202452.4%2013
    Observed 2024 / 2013 · figures compared, never graded
  • Tertiary enrolment
    4.0%20127.7%2024
    Observed 2012 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Technology

ZMBZWE
  • R&D spending
    0.3%2008—
    Observed 2008 / — · figures compared, never graded
  • Researchers (per million)
    422008952012
    Observed 2008 / 2012 · figures compared, never graded
  • Internet users
    17.1%202441.6%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Mobile subscriptions
    1092024942024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • High-tech exports
    1.5%20242.8%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Geography

ZMBZWE
  • Land area
    743,390 km²2023386,850 km²2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Forest area
    59.5%202344.7%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Agricultural land
    32.1%202341.8%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • CO₂ per capita (t)
    0.520240.82024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Renewable energy
    83.0%202182.4%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded

Resources

ZMBZWE
  • Resource rents
    35.3%20216.4%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Oil rents
    0.0%20210.0%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Mineral rents
    28.2%20214.2%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Forest rents
    6.8%20211.8%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Electricity access
    53.6%202462.0%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Copper (mined)
    940 kt2025—
    Observed 2025 / — · figures compared, never graded
  • Lithium (mined)
    —28.0 kt2025
    Observed — / 2025 · figures compared, never graded

Military

ZMBZWE
  • Military burden
    1.3%20240.4%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Defense spending
    $350 M2024$98 M2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Armed forces
    16,000202051,0002020
    Observed 2020 / 2020 · figures compared, never graded

Entangled histories

One event in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

  1. c. 1966–1979

    The liberation war (Second Chimurenga)

    Guerrilla forces of ZANU (ZANLA) and ZAPU (ZIPRA), based in Mozambique and Zambia, waged an escalating war against the Rhodesian state through the 1970s.

    War & Rupture · from the Zimbabwe chronicle · White rule, UDI and the liberation war · REFS 3 — Rhodesian Bush War (Second Chimurenga), Zimbabwe: History, Robert Mugabe