Zambia
Republic of Zambia
- Capital
- Lusaka
- Region
- Eastern Africa
- Population, 2025
- 22 million
- Currency
- ZMW
- Area
- 752,612 km²
Across Zambia's 5 priced cities, one person needs about $926 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $320.
Livability
The same seven domains as for cities, scored at country level; safety falls back to the homicide rate where Numbeo has no survey.
- Purchasing power25%28
- Safety20%53
- Health care15%No data
- Climate10%No data
- Air quality10%67
- Connectivity10%12
- Cost10%80
How each domain is scored
- Purchasing power, 25%
- What a local net salary buys against local prices, as a percentile.
- Safety, 20%
- Numbeo safety index for the city, or for its country when the city has no survey.
- Health care, 15%
- Numbeo health care index, city first, then country.
- Climate, 10%
- Numbeo climate index where surveyed, otherwise a comfort score from NASA climate normals.
- Air quality, 10%
- 30-day mean US AQI on a 0-100 scale: 100 at AQI 25 or cleaner, 0 at 150 or worse.
- Connectivity, 10%
- Percentile of median fixed broadband download speed, city first, then country.
- Cost, 10%
- Cheaper places score higher: the percentile of the cost-of-living plus rent index, inverted.
What it costs
Averages over the country’s cities, weighted by population. New York = 100.
Economy
World Bank development indicators; each figure is the latest year with data.
Taxes
Headline rates side by side from three references, with the source of each.
- Top income tax rate
- 37%
- SourcePwC
- Lowest income tax rate
- 10%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 30%
- SourcePwC
- VAT or sales tax
- 16%
- SourcePwC
- Social security, employee
- 5%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Social security, employer
- 5%
- SourceTrading Economics
Headline statutory rates as of Sep 2026; brackets, allowances and regional taxes change what a given person pays.
Safety and internet
Numbeo’s crime survey, the World Bank homicide series and the Speedtest Global Index.
Safety
- Safety indexNumbeo, higher is safer
- 52.9
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 47.1
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2015
- 5.2
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #132 worldwide
- 32
- Mobile downloadMbps, median
- —
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- —
Cities in Zambia
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Kafue | 63 | 34.6 | — | — | — | 104.2K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 2Kabwe | 63 | 33.8 | — | — | — | 288.6K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 3Ndola | 62 | 33.7 | $178 | $600 | 100.3 | 627.5K | Medium confidence, 7 contributors |
| 4Chunga | 60 | — | — | — | — | 115.5K | Low confidence |
| 5Livingstone | 60 | — | — | — | — | 178.4K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 6Solwezi | 60 | — | — | — | — | 301.4K | Low confidence |
| 7Mazabuka | 60 | — | — | — | — | 104.4K | Low confidence |
| 8Luanshya | 59 | — | — | — | — | 193.3K | Low confidence |
| 9Kalulushi | 59 | — | — | — | — | 104K | Low confidence |
| 10Mufulira | 59 | — | — | — | — | 169.1K | Low confidence |
| 11Mongu | 59 | — | — | — | — | 111.5K | Low confidence |
| 12Mansa | 59 | — | — | — | — | 171K | Low confidence |
| 13Chingola | 59 | — | — | $112 | — | 256.6K | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 14Chililabombwe | 59 | — | — | — | — | 113.9K | Low confidence |
| 15Kasama | 58 | — | — | — | — | 179.6K | Low confidence |
| 16Chipata | 58 | — | — | — | — | 327.1K | Low confidence |
| 17Kitwe | 55 | — | $1,200 | — | — | 666K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 18Lusaka | 50 | 35.9 | $387 | $320 | 39.6 | 2.2M | High confidence, 20 contributors |
| 19Chilanga | 49 | 34.6 | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 20Kansanshi | 42 | — | — | — | — | 40.7K | Low confidence |
| 21Kaoma | 42 | — | — | — | — | 34.3K | Low confidence |
| 22Kawambwa | 42 | — | — | — | — | 31.2K | Low confidence |
| 23Kalomo | 42 | — | — | — | — | 30.8K | Low confidence |
| 24Namwala | 42 | — | — | — | — | 15.6K | Low confidence |
| 25Zimba | 42 | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |