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Zambia Poverty and Equity Assessment 2025: Turning Things Around After a Lost Decade

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dc.contributor.authorWorld Bank
dc.date.accessioned2025-02-25T16:10:04Z
dc.date.available2025-02-25T16:10:04Z
dc.date.issued2025-02-25
dc.description.abstractZambia is simultaneously amongst the poorest and the most unequal countries in the world. In 2022, 64.3 percent of the population - about 12.6 million individuals - was living on less than US$2.15 a day. This level is not only the 6th highest in the world but it is also misaligned with the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita level. In four of the five poorer countries, GDP per capita is between one-quarter and one-half of Zambia’s GDP per capita. The remaining country is South Sudan, which is immersed in a protracted fragility and conflict situation. At the same time, consumption inequality is high, even when compared with the sub-group of highly unequal resource-rich countries. In 2022, the Gini index stood at 51.5 - significantly above the World Bank’s newly adopted high-inequality threshold of 40. This places Zambia as the country with the 4th highest inequality in the region and the 6th highest globally. Resource-rich countries with similar or higher inequality have substantially lower poverty levels.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099021325143024502/P5005171da62e600f1863814dbc6455d0b6
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/42859
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/42859
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherWashington, DC: World Bank
dc.rightsCC BY-NC 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/igo
dc.subjectNO POVERTY
dc.subjectECONOMIC GROWTH
dc.subjectGINI INDEX
dc.subjectHIGH-INEQUALITY THRESHOLD
dc.subjectINEQUALITY
dc.titleZambia Poverty and Equity Assessment 2025en
dc.title.subtitleTurning Things Around After a Lost Decadeen
dc.typePoverty Assessment
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okr.date.disclosure2025-02-25
okr.date.doiregistration2025-04-14T11:50:44.688515Z
okr.date.lastmodified2025-02-20T00:00:00Zen
okr.doctypePoverty Assessment
okr.doctypeEconomic & Sector Work
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099021325143024502/P5005171da62e600f1863814dbc6455d0b6
okr.guid099021325143024502
okr.identifier.docmidP500517-da62e612-4562-4c0f-8638-4dbc6455d0b6
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum34456067
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum34456067
okr.identifier.report197380
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okr.pdfurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099021325143024502/pdf/P5005171da62e600f1863814dbc6455d0b6.pdfen
okr.region.administrativeAfrica Eastern and Southern (AFE)
okr.region.countryZambia
okr.topicMacroeconomics and Economic Growth::Consumption
okr.topicMacroeconomics and Economic Growth::Economic Growth
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Inequality
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Poverty Assessment
okr.unitEFI-AFR1-POV-Poverty and Equity (EAEPV)
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