Zambia: The nation’s final 2022 Census of Population and Housing results indicate that the country’s total population now stands at 19,693,423, with more females than males.
Zambia Statistics Agency (ZamStats) Statistician General Mulenga Musepa said the final number now stands at 19,693,423 as of September 8, 2022, adding that of these, 10,036,163 are females while 9,657,260 are males.
Musepa said the rural areas had more people at 11,806,989 compared with the urban areas at 7,886,434 and that the female population was higher in both urban and rural areas.
The 2022 Census of Population and Housing included the population from usual households, people experiencing homelessness and the institutional population.
This census not only suggests the population of the country but also the demographic statistics linked with the population, and it also has a tendency to show the increase and decline in the population in future.
“The preliminary results for the 2022 Census of Population and Housing had indicated a population size of 19,610,769, and today we release the final number, which now stands at 19,693,423 as the total population,” Mr Musepa announced in Lusaka yesterday during the monthly statistics bulletin dissemination press briefing.
He said Lusaka Province had the highest population size at 3,093,615, followed by Copperbelt Province at 2,768,192, while Muchinga Province had the lowest population size at 922,212.
Life expectancy at birth of both genders combined is 63 years, with females constituting 65.7 years and males comprising 6-.2 years, whereas infant mortality is 36.6 deaths per 1000 live births, and the death rate under age 5 is 52.2 per 1,000 live births.
The total fertility rate in Zambia is around 2.1, representing the Replacement level fertility: the average number of children per woman needed for each generation to replace itself without needing international immigration.
Zambia is a country that is landlocked from the surrounding area and is a resource-rich country with sparsely populated land in Southern Africa. It also shares its boundaries with countries like Angola, Botswana, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.