Year
2018
Population
17835893
Population, Rural
56.48
Population, Female
50.69
Working age population
53.81
Working age population, Male
4713654
Working age population, Female
4883845
Age dependency ratio
85.84
Employment in Agriculture
59.78
GDP per capita (constant 2015 US$)
1331.45
Real GDP growth (inflation-adjusted)
4.03
GDP at current market prices
26311.49
Inflation rate
7.48
Growth in broad money supply
14.17
External debt outstanding (% of GDP)
77.58
Current account balance (% of GDP)
-1.3
Fiscal balance (% of GDP)
-8.31
Unemployment rate
12
Remittances (% of GDP)
0.41
Adult literacy rate
86.75
Adult literacy rate, Adult Female
83.08
Adult literacy rate, Adult Male
90.6
Adequacy of Digital skills in population
3.67
Access to electricity
40.2
Access to electricity, Urban
76.3
Access to electricity, Rural
12.4
Main telephone lines per 100 inhabitants
0.58
Mobile phone ownership
35.87
ATMs per 100,000 adults
11.15
ATMs
1104
POS machines
13090
Handset affordability
25.9
Mobile connectivity index
37.04
Network coverage
58.04
Mobile Data Affordability
30.32
Mobile Cellular Subscribers per 100 inhabitants
89.16
Volume of mobile money transactions per 1000 adults
27748.4
Value of mobile money transactions (% of GDP)
6.7
Value of on-device card transactions
4.92
Volume of on-device card transactions
63136591
Value of EFT transactions
4.97
Volume of EFT transactions
6952305
Value of instant (real time) transactions
80.63
Volume of instant (real time) transactions
303955243
Mobile money regulatory index
79.85
Broad money (current LCU)
62 997 058 168
Consumer price index (2010 = 100)
195
Population ages 15 and above, female
5 069 296
Population ages 15 and above, male
4 830 305
Population ages 15 and above, total
9 899 602
Population, female (primary + secondary)
3486223
Population, male
8 794 716
Population, male (primary + secondary)
3458805
Population, youth (15-24)
3610133
Urban population
7 762 359
Unemployment rate, Youth
26