_*Economy #_Overview: The economy has been in decline for more than a decade with falling imports and growing foreign debt. Economic difficulties stem from a sustained drop in copper production and ineffective economic policies. In 1990 real GDP stood only slightly higher than that of 10 years before, while an annual population growth of more than 3% has brought a decline in per capita GDP of 25% during the same period. A high inflation rate has also added to Zambia's economic woes in recent years.
_#_GDP: $4.7 billion, per capita $580; real growth rate - 2% (1990)
_#_Inflation rate (consumer prices): 80% (1990)
_#_Unemployment rate: NA%
_#_Budget: revenues $1.5 billion; expenditures $1.5 billion, including capital expenditures of $300 million (1991 est.)
_#_Exports: $1.1 million (f.o.b., 1990);
commodities—copper, zinc, cobalt, lead, tobacco;
partners—EC, Japan, South Africa, US
_#_Imports: $1.1 million (c.i.f., 1990);
commodities—machinery, transportation equipment, foodstuffs, fuels, manufactures;