Year
2019
Population
18380477
Population, Rural
55.93
Population, Female
50.67
Working age population
54.19
Working age population, Male
4894933
Working age population, Female
5065056
Age dependency ratio
84.54
Employment in Agriculture
57.37
GDP per capita (constant 2015 US$)
1310.62
Real GDP growth (inflation-adjusted)
1.44
GDP at current market prices
23309.29
Inflation rate
9.2
Growth in broad money supply
14.35
External debt outstanding (% of GDP)
91.72
Current account balance (% of GDP)
0.65
Unemployment rate
12.5
Remittances (% of GDP)
0.42
Adequacy of Digital skills in population
3.5
Access to electricity
43
Access to electricity, Urban
79.5
Access to electricity, Rural
14.2
Main telephone lines per 100 inhabitants
0.54
Mobile phone ownership
36.89
ATMs per 100,000 adults
9.79
ATMs
1006
POS machines
17795
Handset affordability
28.88
Mobile connectivity index
36.87
Network coverage
65.74
Mobile Data Affordability
22.98
Mobile Cellular Subscribers per 100 inhabitants
96.41
Volume of mobile money transactions per 1000 adults
50390.96
Value of mobile money transactions (% of GDP)
14.59
Value of on-device card transactions
4.88
Volume of on-device card transactions
68716939
Value of EFT transactions
4.86
Volume of EFT transactions
7800720
Value of instant (real time) transactions
69.85
Volume of instant (real time) transactions
607114
Value of mobile money transactions
3.54
Volume of mobile money transactions
552638552
Mobile money regulatory index
81.35
Number of SMEs
4293
Number of SMEs, Female
35.80%
Number of micro enterprises
17123
Number of micro enterprises, Female
42.30%
MSME Finance Gap
3687604402
SME Finance Gap
2925912380
SME Finance Gap, Female
473745540
Microenterprises Finance Gap
761692022
Microenterprises Finance Gap, Female
183857588
Fully credit constrained SMEs
31.50%
Fully credit constrained micro enterprises
25.80%
Informal MSMEs
43.90%
Broad money (current LCU)
70 900 180 663
Consumer price index (2010 = 100)
212
Population ages 15 and above, female
5 258 355
Population ages 15 and above, male
5 016 350
Population ages 15 and above, total
10 274 705
Population, female (primary + secondary)
3581105
Population, male
9 066 397
Population, male (primary + secondary)
3556394
Population, youth (15-24)
3725453
Urban population
8 100 644
Unemployment rate, Youth
30.1