World population/Zambia
Africa
Population of Zambia
22,521,912
Growing by 0.02 people every second
#63
world rank
0.27%
of world population
+2.74%
yearly change
+616,813
people this year
721,060
births a year
114,941
deaths a year
How the figure for Zambia is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Zambia at 22,521,912 on 1 July 2026, and projects 23,138,725 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.02 people added every second.
That places Zambia at number 63 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.27 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 58 entries in Africa.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 721,060 births and 114,941 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.
Other countries in Africa
Ranked by population.