Year
2019
Population
2499702
Population, Rural
29.83
Population, Female
50.67
Working age population
63.12
Working age population, Male
775047
Working age population, Female
802787
Age dependency ratio
58.43
Employment in Agriculture
14.89
GDP per capita (constant 2015 US$)
6485.57
Real GDP growth (inflation-adjusted)
3.03
GDP at current market prices
16725.91
Inflation rate
2.79
Growth in broad money supply
7.04
External debt outstanding (% of GDP)
34.54
Current account balance (% of GDP)
-6.9
Fiscal balance (% of GDP)
6.16
Unemployment rate
22.6
Remittances (% of GDP)
0.36
Adequacy of Digital skills in population
3.69
Access to electricity
70.1
Access to electricity, Urban
88
Access to electricity, Rural
27.9
Main telephone lines per 100 inhabitants
6.19
Mobile phone ownership
47.36
ATMs per 100,000 adults
41.27346
ATMs
687
POS machines
4877
Handset affordability
61.75
Mobile connectivity index
53.41
Network coverage
90
Mobile Data Affordability
27.09
Mobile Cellular Subscribers per 100 inhabitants
162.64
Mobile money accounts
1151584
Volume of mobile money transactions per 1000 adults
25210.48
Value of mobile money transactions (% of GDP)
7.07
Value of on-device card transactions
6.6290545
Volume of on-device card transactions
102726000
Value of EFT transactions
19.38664218
Volume of EFT transactions
9161052
Mobile money regulatory index
77.56
Number of SMEs
7142
Number of SMEs, Female
16.9%
Number of micro enterprises
5995
Number of micro enterprises, Female
23.5%
MSME Finance Gap
2669630855
Fully credit constrained SMEs
12.3%
Fully credit constrained micro enterprises
7.6%
Informal MSMEs
31.9%
Broad money (current LCU)
84 767 083 089
Consumer price index (2010 = 100)
150
Population ages 15 and above, female
854 161
Population ages 15 and above, male
810 346
Population ages 15 and above, total
1 664 508
Population, female (primary + secondary)
382469
Population, male
1 233 202
Population, male (primary + secondary)
391241
Population, youth (15-24)
453994
Urban population
1 754 091
Unemployment rate, Youth
37.8