Zambia — GDP
GDP (Nominal) for Zambia, 1960–2025.
Latest value · 2025
28.88 billion
GDP (Nominal) · current US$ · +4033.1% since 1960
GDP for Zambia was 28.88 billion in 2025, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 66 years, from 1960 to 2025. The highest recorded value was 29.16 billion in 2022. The lowest was 679.28 million in 1962 (about 42.5× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to 5.89% per year.
Zambia ranks 117 of 212 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 55%. The median for Sub-Saharan Africa is 19.93 billion, so Zambia sits above it. It peaked in 2022 and has fallen 1% since. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved up 36%.
Key figures
Latest (2025)
28.88 billion
First (1960)
698.74 million
Change
+4033.1%
Highest
29.16 billion
in 2022
Lowest
679.28 million
in 1962
Average
8.89 billion
Annual growth (CAGR)
5.89%
Years of data
66
Recent years
| Year | current US$ |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 28,879,806,220.13 |
| 2024 | 25,303,185,342.25 |
| 2023 | 27,577,956,471.24 |
| 2022 | 29,163,782,140.49 |
| 2021 | 22,096,416,932.01 |
| 2020 | 18,137,764,930.65 |
| 2019 | 23,308,667,781.23 |
| 2018 | 26,311,507,273.67 |
| 2017 | 25,873,601,260.84 |
| 2016 | 20,958,412,538.31 |
| 2015 | 21,251,216,798.78 |
| 2014 | 27,141,023,558.08 |
Reading this correctly. Gross domestic product at current market prices, converted to US dollars at official exchange rates. This is the number usually meant by 'GDP'. Figures are in current US$. Comparing this series with a different measure of the same concept (for example a nominal figure against a purchasing-power-parity figure) will give misleading results.
Related data
Source. World Bank Open Data, indicator
NY.GDP.MKTP.CD — GDP (Nominal). Data licensed under CC BY 4.0. Values are reproduced as published; this page computes the summary statistics (change, CAGR, extremes) from the underlying annual series. View the original dataset on data.worldbank.org.